Tevez stinks the place out

WITH one, highly ineffective swing of the boot, Carlos Tevez relieved Ronny Rosenthal of his unwanted place in the forward’s equivalent of Room 101.

Barely a fortnight into a nine-month campaign that is certainly more marathon than sprint, the magnitude of the point Manchester City squandered courtesy of the South American’s astonishing first-half miss may not become apparent for some time.

It’s beyond question that the Argentinian will earn his side far more points that he costs them this season, but for the next few games he’ll owe his team-mates in the wake of an aberration which defined this contest perhaps more so than Darren Bent’s winning penalty deep into stoppage time.