0% Villa. Tevez refuses to play for Citeh

[Matt C]

If ever you wanted to see what was wrong with modern football, Carlos Tevez is it in a nutshell.

[joe_c]

2209: Roberto Mancini on Carlos Tevez after the Argentine refused to come off the bench tonight: "He's finished with me, with me he's finished."

2209: Bruce Forsythe on Anton du Beke refusing to paso doble with Nancy Dell'Olio on strickly tonight: "He's finished with me, with me he's finished."

"You get nothing for a glare, not in this game."

[The Laughing Policeman]

The natives are up in arms.  http://forums.bluemoon-mcfc.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=234677  51 pages already.

[Archbishop Herbert Cockthrottle]

When will someone with more money than sense gather a load of these players together to form a brand new club?

[MarkM]

Although they are one of the few clubs who can afford to do this, I'm sure the PFA will have some say if a club tried to take some control back, even one as odious as Citeh.

Even an odious, sycophantic tosser like Gordon Taylor would struggle to defend Tevez.

I'm sure he'd give it a bloody good go though.

If a player was having sex with a chicken on the bench and then cut its throat and drank its blood, Gordon Taylor would still defend his right to do it!

[Cjamesk]

Although they are one of the few clubs who can afford to do this, I'm sure the PFA will have some say if a club tried to take some control back, even one as odious as Citeh.

Even an odious, sycophantic tosser like Gordon Taylor would struggle to defend Tevez.

I'm sure he'd give it a bloody good go though.

If a player was having sex with a chicken on the bench and then cut its throat and drank its blood, Gordon Taylor would still defend his right to do it!

Too True, I lost faith in GT being on the fans "side" when I heard him state that " I always advice players to take as much as they can out of the game" in reference to the obscene wages and demands these "modern day" pre-madonnas get.

Him (GT) the limpless FA and Scudamore are to blame squarly and wholely for the moral collapse of football in this country.

Just my opinion anyhow.

[Phil from the upper holte]

I echo the thoughts of most on here, Tevez is an example of what's wrong with modern football

[Simon Ward]

Cjamesk, one shared by many football fans I expect.

[Damo70]

The lack of interest in learning the language of a country you've lived in for five years never impressed me. Wanting to move to Milan or Madrid because they are closer to Argentina was a joke. He could have got his wish and moved back to South America in the summer if he was prepared to take a wage drop in my opinion. Then he comes back and realises he was never irreplacable anyway. Your a Man City reserve mate, the fans and your team 'mates' hate you, no-one wanted to bankrupt their club to buy you in the summer and you've just made yourself an even less attractive proposition (no pun intended).

[Concrete John]

Biggest piss take in all this?  If/when they sell him in Jan he'll still expect loyalty payments before he goes.

[CJ]

Complete bell-end. Don't think they'll make him see the rest of his contract out in the stiffs though. However much he deserves it and they can afford it, £250,000 (?) a week is a lot of money even for a club that has loads of money and no principles. Think they'll try and sack him for breach of contract - and I think he knows that and explains why he's backtracking

[damon loves JT]

He still hasn't decided on his excuse for not coming on. I am all ears.

[lordmcgrath5]

Although they are one of the few clubs who can afford to do this, I'm sure the PFA will have some say if a club tried to take some control back, even one as odious as Citeh.

Even an odious, sycophantic tosser like Gordon Taylor would struggle to defend Tevez.

I'm sure he'd give it a bloody good go though.

What a marvellous post. I've always despised Taylor with a passion - as bad as anyone at the FA for raking in huge quantities of cash for doing jack shit and doing his utmost to defend the status quo. It's always amazed me how many sycophants in the media give the impression that he has something to say. If he had any backbone at all he'd say that players today are vastly overpaid and taking all the money straight out of football, but you'll never hear anything like that from Mr T. I wrote to WSC a good 15 years ago to ask why they bothered printing his "let's not rock the boat" ramblings - I gave up buying it soon afterwards.

[dave shelley]

The sad thing about this for me, is that there is a whole gereration growing up thinking that this is how football has always been and will continue to be and therefore see nothing wrong in it.

[pauliewalnuts]

Personally, I hope he stays at City and festers, malignantly, for as long as possible.

Bollocks to him, and bollocks to the shit for brains, classless, "Welcome to Manchester", more money than sense idiots who bought him in the first place.

Zero sympathy for them.