Ja Salford Blue said:
Iv'e got a feeling him and his sly ba$tard of an agent will turn round and say he only refused to warm up and didnt refuse to play. I reckon he will say as he had been warming up for the majority of the 2nd half he was ready to come on and didnt need to warm up any more.
Ive got a bad feeling that the press will run with this and we will be made out as the bad guys in all this.
^^^ NO Sh*T Sherlock!! This has been the clear position of the Tevez camp since the morning after the game...listen to Paul McCarthy in Talksport interview for full thinking of tevez advisors.
With regard to the Tevez post-match interview...which so many think is conclusive evidence against Tevez...his camp will also have a counter-argument.
He will say that he was trying to do Mancini a favour by accepting responsibility for failing to come on as sub..."My mental state not right etc"...i.e. it was my decision...
and he will claim that truth of matter is that RM went into orbit when he refused to warm-up and that RM was so annoyed by this challenge to his authority and got so incensed in subsequent bust-up that he decided to rule Tevez out as a sub option even though tevez was "prepared to play".
The only bit of footage that in any way supports Tevez is the bit when he motions to get up but is clearly told in no uncertain terms to sit back down (presumably by Mancini) + Milner looks very puzzled next to him thinking "What the hell is going on here??"
This supports the Tevez argument that he fell out with RM over need to warm up....but was eventually prepared to do so (after much persuasion by coaching staff). But by now it was too late as RM too pissed off with Tevez's attitude.
From a "plea bargain" point of view, I would imagine that Tevez is going to accept lesser charge of "inappropriate behaviour" which results in lengthy internal suspension that will take us to Jan transfer window.
(i.e. he accepts he is guilty of insubordination but not outright mutiny).
City will put out press release confirming this...and Tevez Camp will put out press release expressing "regret" at incident...but welcoming official finding that accusation of "refusing to play" is not proven.
