Carlos the crass has humiliated wrong club

SO Carlos Tevez is finished at Manchester City. The club’s normally urbane and outwardly composed manager Roberto Mancini finally came clean on Tuesday after a tumultuous night in Munich and told the world something we’d suspected for many months already — that he could no longer stand the sight of his former club captain, top scorer and talisman.

“If I have my way he’ll be out. He’s finished with me,” said the Italian, his eyes burning with rage and indignation, even if his lovely hair still stayed impressively in place.

The last straw for Mancini in this most volatile of relationships — at least according to the manager — was the fact that the 27-year-old Argentinian had refused to come off the bench to try to drag his City team back into their first ever Champions League away match.