Manchester City coach David Platt admits manager Roberto Mancini is full of superstitions.

One of the biggest for Mancini is splashed wine.

"His worst one is the wine," Platt told the Daily Mail. "If you spill wine, he has to stick his fingers in it and dab it behind his ears, like perfume. Apparently, that wards off the bad luck. So we're in his office after the Liverpool game and I knock over a glass.

"There's nothing in it, really, but a drop comes out and splashes on the table and he's over, from the other side of the room, finger in the wine, dab, dab. And not a word of explanation to anybody.

"I can see Kenny Dalglish and Steve Clarke looking at him as if he's mad."