Thaksins Love Child said:
Don't reall have anything to add regarding these reports. All I will say is that for the last 15 mins of the first half and most of the second Tevez was not himself, there were threads about it on Sunday. He seemed pissed off and spent most of the last hour walking about, most unlike him. Could be nothing but I suspect is related.
There was an incident in the first half where he picked up the ball on the edge of the Newcastle box and held on to it, as he always does, despite the attention of four barcode defenders but was looking for support. No one (Milner, Barry, Yaya or Silva) came anywhere near and eventually he was forced to give away a throw. He then belted the ball against the advertising board in frustration.
Now if that was me, I'd certainly have had something to say at half-time and I'd be telling my manager and team-mates in no uncertain terms what I thought. I suspect these things happen all the time in dressing rooms and once the heat dies down, they get forgotten. But Tevez is 100% right on this - a lone striker relies totally on support from midfield getting forward quickly and that isn't happening at the moment.