Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson has praised Manchester City's Roberto Mancini for the way he's handled the Carlos Tevez controversy.

Tevez appeared before City's disciplinary hearing yesterday.

And Ferguson declared: "I think Roberto has shown his mettle dealing with a lot of situations in recent times. He has done fantastically well.

"Forget Carlos Tevez played for us. It has nothing to do with Carlos Tevez. It is about the decision-making of a manager. His handling of situations.

"I find it amazing he has not had enough praise for that. It all centred around what they were going to do. But he acted, he did his job. I think he has handled it really well."