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Tevez Punishment - you couldn't make it up!
Posted by Martin Simmonds on 30 September 2011 - 3:00pm.
They are actually thinking of sending him to West Ham for three months!
I can see it happening too.
(Of course nothing went wrong last time we had him at Upton Park.)
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Too harsh
What he did wasn't that bad.
Tevez - The man, the child.
It wasn't bad. It was stupid but after observing the chappy over a considerable period; he isn't very bright. He is truculent, volatile and with only very limited English. Thats not a good mixture. Its difficult to have any sympathy with any thing at City as their owners have attempted to throw money at football until they buy success. I believe Abramovich has the patent for that activity. The main story is City got told on the night by Bayern Munich what european football is about.
Carlos Tevez
Football is just all about hyperbole isn't it? Obviously, Tevez feels Mancini has been mucking him about, and had a strop. It was the wrong thing to do, but you'd think he'd killed someone the way the media have been going on. One pundit said he'd committed the worst sin in football. Really? Worse than deliberately injuring an opponent? Worse than simulation? Worse than fixing results for Far East betting syndicates? Load of balls, man.
Tevez...
...is clearly a git, but I agree, Spartacus.
I understand Mancini's anger (and Roberto, if you're reading this, I will VERY happily try and think of a way of de-stressing you), but the man refused to play. That's all. Yes, if he played for my team I'd want him out, but the coverage has made it sound as if he somehow has ruined the Champions League, single-handed.
In today's papers, we have had two national rugby coaches actively cheating treated as a bit of an annoyance for the next game and this treated as if the whole fabric of society has shredded in those 30 seconds of Tevez-stroppiness.
I don't understand a lot of sports journalism.
Titus Bramble
thrown in jail and suspended from Sunderland following allegations of sexual assault and being in possession of class A drugs, errr...just a year after him and his brother were accused of rape = a few words in the back pages of the papers.
Carlos Tevez spoilt serial sulker man-child and puppet of seriously slimy owner/parasite Kia Joorabchian refuses to play in protest = mass hysteria and calls for his public flogging, even politicians passing comment.
World has gone mad...
Hmmmm, I know which one deserves the public flogging and it isn't the mutant offspring of Anthony Kiedis and a Neanderthal Man that's for sure...
Spot on
The same thing happened with Tyson. His conviction for rape was obviously seen as bad, but he didn't get ANYTHING like the negative coverage as when he bit thingy's ear off.
Obviously the latter action is HORRIBLE, but worse than rape? No.
this is a genuine question
and I'm just thinking aloud, but why is rape worse than biting someone's ear off? How can we know?
I can only speak for myself
But given the choice I'd rather have my ear bitten off.
not sure
Oral rape vs ear amputation by teeth? Hmm... close call, but cock-in-mouth just edges it, because I don't really like the idea of undergoing reconstructive surgery, and I'm too vain to live it otherwise. Besides, I'm rather partial to oysters, so I could probably cope with the taste. Bum rape? I'll get back to you...
I'd suggest
that motivation is the big difference.
While classified as a sex crime, and that is something that defence lawyers like to try to emphasise (look at the way she dressed, who could resist the come-on), rape is nothing to do with uncontrollable sexual urges. It is a crime that is all about the humiliation and degradation of the victim.
Retro hits nail on head
The world is truly mad. Tevez earning shedloads is the main reason he gets the coverage.
Ha-ha, mmm, Tevez?
Pretending you didn't quite understand what the manager was saying?
Ha-ha, used to try that with mummy now and again, when ordered in early for my tea. What was that mummy? I didn't hear you 'cos Eddie Marston was shouting at me to pass the ball, because now his sister had been tricked out of the goal mouth, he had a clear shot. Mmmm? Bit of a tomboy, wasn't she? Mmm? Bit bookish on the quiet. What was she reading the other day? Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall? Wasn't it?
Oww, what was that for? Eur-hur, its not fair, you can't stop my pocket money. No mummy, don't tell daddy. Mmm?
Threat of a talking to from father figure used to have some effect then, didn't it. Mmm?
Adults, eh? Mmm? Goalposts for goalposts? Marvellous.
As Carlos said...
...it was indeed a misunderstanding.
The Spanish for 'Sod off, Roberto, you must be joking' is very similar to the Spanish for 'Shall I slot in behind the front two, boss?'
A cautionary tale about misbehaving footballers
Way back in season 2000/01, St Johnstone, the Perth-based team then playing in the Scottish Premier League (SPL), had a problem with two players: George O'Boyle and Kevin Thomas. At the club Christmas party, held in a Perth nightclub in early January 2001, the pair were found by a club official snorting cocaine in the toilets.
The two were dismissed as St Johnstone didn't want to have anything to do with coke-sniffing footballers. Coincidentally, Thomas was long-term injured with cruciate ligament damage at the time.
Weirdly from a lay perspective, the SPL thought that St Johnstone had acted too harshly and reckoned the pair shouldn't have been sacked. Then the Scottish Football Association, the governing body of the game in Scotland, overruled the SPL and said that St Johnstone had got it right in the first place.
The players took their case to the Court of Session - although I can find nothing that says they were successful. According to Wikipedia, Kevin Thomas specifically then went to an Employment Tribunal and then an Employment Tribunal Appeal where it was eventually found - in September 2002 – that since St Johnstone had not followed due procedure in sacking him, he was entitled to compensation, initially set at £90k. The club then appealed the award, compensation was reduced to just over £3.5k in June 2003, and the matter finally came to a close.
Both players continued for some time in senior football after the actual cocaine incident. Thomas moved to Berwick Rangers then Montrose before giving up the game in 2002. O'Boyle had spells with Raith Rovers, Brechin City and Queen of the South, played in Northern Ireland and later at non-league level in Scotland before hanging up his boots in 2008.
The moral of the tale? Neither of these guys had a disagreement with a manager, in a foreign language, over whether to warm up or not prior to maybe going on the park, or not, during a game. Instead they were caught red handed with a Class A drug in public. With Thomas, the case still managed to rumble on for nearly two-and-a-half years involving lawyers, the SFA, SPL, Court of Session and an Employment Tribunal. Imagine that scenario involving lawyers, agents, Manchester City, Tevez, the FA, the Premier League, Uncle Tom Cobley and all.
It's probably easier to send him to West Ham for a couple of months.