Greenlizard0 Weekend Football Thread ** spoilers ** [Sunday 13th May 2012]

Tevez is a right twerp imo - if he had said something along the lines of "I held the sign aloft as a bit of a joke, and didnt mean to cause offence" - no one would bat an eyelid, and a few (who arent currently) might have found the funny side

Now Tevez has dug his heels in and appeared a little.....baulchy..... it looks FAR worse, and bordering on malicious
 
FrankJH said:
Now Tevez has dug his heels in and appeared a little.....baulchy..... it looks FAR worse, and bordering on malicious
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Exactly. It also (once again) completely disrespects City as well (not that I care about them obviously)

Like I said before if the FA can fine players for what they say on twitter and can suspend a player for swearing into a camera then action should be taken against Tevez. I'm not holding my breath though :rolleyes:
 
It's a complete non-story. Fergie said manyoo would never be underdogs to City in his lifetime, Tevez, who was deemed surplus to requirements by Taggart, held aloft a fan-made placard saying RIP Fergie. More to the point, it's funny!

Take it as tongue in cheek and let it go.
 
Gilly said:
It's a complete non-story. Fergie said manyoo would never be underdogs to City in his lifetime, Tevez, who was deemed surplus to requirements by Taggart, held aloft a fan-made placard saying RIP Fergie. More to the point, it's funny!

Take it as tongue in cheek and let it go.
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If it was ever tongue in cheek it stopped being so the minute he retracted his apology the second he got back to Argentina.
 
Did he ever make an apology? I thought City had apologised, and Tevez said that there was never any need to apologise?
 
Gilly said:
It's a complete non-story. Fergie said manyoo would never be underdogs to City in his lifetime, Tevez, who was deemed surplus to requirements by Taggart, held aloft a fan-made placard saying RIP Fergie. More to the point, it's funny!

Take it as tongue in cheek and let it go.
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1 title in over 40 years, not to mention no CL successes - City are STILL underdogs by a LONG way

Considering the way he has acted this season - its hard to argue what team he isnt surplus for.

Moses said:
It really doesn't look like that :|.
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Not really surprised you think that
 
I have to say I fully agree with Tevez here, even though he's an idiot.

There really is nothing to apologize over.

The club had no need to apologize on Tevez' behalf. It just makes the whole scenario more embarrasing for all parties.
 
Manchester City striker Carlos Tevez appears to have no intention of apologising to Sir Alex Ferguson for holding a banner mocking the Manchester United manager.

He displayed a sign saying 'RIP Fergie' during the open-top bus parade through Manchester to celebrate City's Barclays Premier League title win on Monday. City expressed "sincerest apologies" and said Tevez had made a "significant error of judgement". A Tevez statement said he got "carried away in the excitement of the moment".

But in comments carried by Argentinian website www.ole.com.ar, Tevez said: "It seems like Ferguson is the president of England. Every time he speaks badly about a player or says terrible things about me, nobody says that he has to apologise. [But] when someone comes out with a joke or banter, you have to say sorry - but I don't say sorry."

The placard, passed to Tevez by a fan, is thought to have been a reference to a remark by Ferguson three years ago when asked if United would ever be underdogs against City. "Not in my lifetime," said the Scot.
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He's confirmed it was nothing serious, and therefore there is nothing to apologise for.

FrankJH said:
1 title in over 40 years, not to mention no CL successes - City are STILL underdogs by a LONG way
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Since when does history dictate who is the underdog? :confused:

I would guess that manyoo will be the underdogs this coming season - as I expect that City will be favourites for the title. Might be wrong, but even if I am it will be very close.

FrankJH said:
Considering the way he has acted this season - its hard to argue what team he isnt surplus for.
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Considering that he's done very little wrong on the face of it, and his performances either side of him being away from the game, I'd expect most teams would start him in front of all but the very best strikers.
 
Tuesday 15th

Tevez said:
I got carried away in the excitement of the moment and I certainly didn't mean any disrespect to Sir Alex Ferguson, who I admire as a man and a manager."
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Thursday the 17th

Tevez said:
It seems like Ferguson is the president of England.

"When he speaks badly about a player, nobody says he has to apologise but when someone comes out with a joke, you have to say sorry. I don't say sorry."
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MooMoo444 said:
The club had no need to apologize on Tevez' behalf. It just makes the whole scenario more embarrasing for all parties.
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I thought it was a good move by Man City. He's representative of them and they know he's an idiot so tried to save face.

Him retracting the apology now means they can't do that, which now will further increase the likelihood of him leaving, especially as they can replace him easily.
 
Robbo said:
I thought it was a good move by Man City. He's representative of them and they know he's an idiot so tried to save face.
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The fact that City issued the apology as quickly as they did proves they know what Tevez did was ill-advised and would land them in hot water but hey ho he did nothing wrong didn't he :o
 
Tom84 said:
The fact that City issued the apology as quickly as they did proves they know what Tevez did was ill-advised and would land them in hot water but hey ho he did nothing wrong didn't he :o
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People who dislike Man Utd are going to say that, it's no surprise.
 
Robbo said:
I thought it was a good move by Man City. He's representative of them and they know he's an idiot so tried to save face.
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But he did nothing wrong.

Even in the article about it, they refer to Fergies quote. How can people not put 2 and 2 together, and brush the whole thing under the carpet?
 
Robbo said:
People who dislike Man Utd are going to say that, it's no surprise.
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The only people offended by it appear to be manyoo fans. No-one else batted an eyelid.

Not wanting to cause a reaction, a genuine question, is it just sour grapes? It's obvious he's not actually willing death upon his former manager, what's the actual problem?
 
In a professional capacity, it was idiotic. Of course only Man Utd fans are offended, why would anyone else be?

The fact Man City were so fast to issue a sincere apology says it all really. If you think they shouldn't have done and that it's not unprofessional - fine.
 
If Mancini had blown it at QPR and one of the Utd players held up a sign saying "RIP Mancini", nobody would have even gave it a second thought.
 
MooMoo444 said:
If Mancini had blown it at QPR and one of the Utd players held up a sign saying "RIP Mancini", nobody would have even gave it a second thought.
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Wrong. If any of our players were seen holding a sign saying RIP Mancini (or anyone else in the game) I'd be disgusted with them and embarrassed as a United supporter.
 
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