Carlos Tevez has failed to report for training a day after reportedly accepting a fine of 2 weeks wages for 5 counts of misconduct during Manchester City’s defeat at Bayern Munich after he refused to warm up. City were reported to have instructed their lawyers to take action after the Argentinian failed to report for […]
Tevez will not appeal City fine
Carlos Tevez will not appeal the two week fine handed to him for misconduct for refusing to warm up following Manchester City’s Champions League tie in Munich in September. The Argentine midfielder will instead accept the fine, which had been reduced from a four-week fine after intervention from the PFA, after the club could not prove that […]
Kolo Toure accepts City fine
Manchester City have issued a brief statement confirming that Kolo Toure was fined sixweeks’ wages for a ban imposed due to doping offences and accepted the punishment. Toure was banned for six months after testing positive to a banned substance which later turned out to be his wife’s diet pills. The Ivory Coast defender took […]
Rooney dropped from England squad
Wayne Rooney has been dropped from Fabio Capello’s squad to play in friendly games against Spain and Sweden. England coach Fabio Capello revealed that he had explained that he was looking towards other options in the build-up to the Euro 2012 group games next year as Rooney is currently banned from the opening 3 games […]
Fergie forever
THE sight of Sir Alex Ferguson will continue to haunt rival managers long after the 69-year-old Scot has picked his last Manchester United side. In addition to renaming Old Trafford’s North Stand in his honour, the club has commissioned a statue of him to be placed in a prominent position near its entrance. The work […]