Returning Manchester City striker Carlos Tevez believes that manager Roberto Mancini's behavior at the helm of affairs in the Eastlands has changed for the worse following the arrival of Sergio Aguero this summer.

In an interview with Fox Sports, Tevez has revealed his complete version of events that led to Mancini excluding the Argentine from the squad in the aftermath of the club's 2-0 UEFA Champions League defeat at Bayern Munich in September.

szólj hozzá: Wigan 0-1 Manchester City

Edin Dzeko sighting once again. This time he flew high over the Wigan defense to head the ball home of a David Silva free kick. The 1-0 win established a three point lead over Utd at the top of the table.

Roberto Mancini reignited his feud with Wayne Rooney as he brandished an imaginary red card against Maynor Figueroa for a handball.

Poll: Who is worse Andy Carroll or Edin Dzeko?

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If you didn't see the Chelsea v Fulham match yesterday, it was a 1-1 tie. Amobi Okugo sums it up well on the twitter.

The Red Bulls continue to insist they will embrace another MLS team in the Big Apple. It's going to be lonely playing in front of 1,500 people in Harrison in 2014.

Alex Morgan is one of Scott French's best stories of 2011.

As a player, you have respect for Barcelona but you never have fear. You have to plan for a good game against them and to try to cause them problems. So no, we do not have any fear of Manchester City, especially because we're playing at home in this match but we do have the ultimate respect for them because they're the league leaders.

I think nobody was expecting Manchester City to win 6-1 against their local rivals, Manchester United in today's derby in Manchester. It was a strange match, which at the score 3-1 for City, the Reds basically gave up and let Manchester City's awesome striking force with Kun Aguero, David Silva and Edin Dzeko, have a field day.

In a remarkable speech, Carlos Tevez's agent Kia Joorabchian insisted that Carlos Tevez did not refuse to go on as a substitute for Manchester City against Bayern Munich and that he is simply a victim of mistranslation.

Joorabchian told the Leaders in Football conference in London on Wednesday that Tevez was not the sort of player who would refuse to take to the pitch.

In a remarkable speech, Carlos Tevez's agent Kia Joorabchian insisted that Carlos Tevez did not refuse to go on as a substitute for Manchester City against Bayern Munich and that he is simply a victim of mistranslation.

Joorabchian told the Leaders in Football conference in London on Wednesday that Tevez was not the sort of player who would refuse to take to the pitch.

The center of football in England is in Manchester as Wayne Rooney scored a hat-trick as Manchester United thrashed Arsenal 8-2 at Old Trafford and Edin Džeko scored four as Manchester City beat Spurs 5-1 at White Hart Lane.

Manchester City were impressive in the early kick-off as Edin Dzeko scored four times as he and debutant Samir Nasri helped Manchester City put Tottenham Hotspur to the sword with a ruthless display of attacking football.

The center of football in England is in Manchester as Wayne Rooney scored a hat-trick as Manchester United thrashed Arsenal 8-2 at Old Trafford and Edin Džeko scored four as Manchester City beat Spurs 5-1 at White Hart Lane.

Manchester City were impressive in the early kick-off as Edin Dzeko scored four times as he and debutant Samir Nasri helped Manchester City put Tottenham Hotspur to the sword with a ruthless display of attacking football.

Chantelle Houghton? Is that you?

Kickettes, do you like/love/loathe boxing?

Well, what if we told you that boxing matches were a hotbed for hoards of footballers?

As is usually the case and our luck, most alternative sports supporters are not as genetically flawless as the Spanish.

LONDON, England Roberto Mancini saw Manchester City clinch automatic qualification to the group stages of the Champions League and immediately demanded a fresh injection of cash. Arsene Wenger saw his side's season end on a low-key note with a draw against Fulham and promptly heaped more frustration on Arsenal fans by admitting the club [.

Manchester City secured a top-four finish and a place in next season's Champions League with a 1-0 home victory against Tottenham Hotspur.

City had the first notable chance but Edin Džeko was thwarted by Carlo Cudicini's point-blank save. Spurs grew into the match and it was not long before they fashioned an opportunity of their own, Luka Modrić firing wide from Aaron Lennon's centre.

Jermaine Jones and Blackburn Rovers were in action on Monday, losing 1-0 to Manchester City at Ewood Park. Edin Dezeko scored the game's only goal in the 75th minute. Jones was yellow carded in the 49th. The loss has Blackburn a point out of the relegation zone in 16th-place with four games remaining.

Having a rather below par games this season added with his controversial case earlier, Wayne Rooney, pretty much proved that he is still committed in giving something for Manchester United this season after scoring the winning goal for his team in the Derby game against Manchester City.

Not only deciding the outcome of the game, Rooney's strike is purely a special kind of goal as the striker pulled off a first time overhead kick after receiving a cross from Nani and simply left City's keeper, Joe Hart, rooted to the spot.

Emmanuel Adebayor has backed Manchester City to win the Premier League title. The Togo striker has just sealed a loan move to Spanish giants Real Madrid from the Eastlands outfit and was speaking at his official unveiling.
City have not won the league title since 1968 but this is arguably their greatest opportunity to end this barren spell.

Five days ago, I wasn't much looking forward to Saturday, but how quickly things can change; all it took was £26m! Seriously though, it's amazing what a boost the acquisition of Darren Bent has provided. To everyone, fans and players alike it would seem; Gabby, Ash & James Collins all waxing lyrical about Bent joining the team.

It feels like a while since we did one of these. Between the FA Cup action over the weekend and our inaugural two-gamer of the season there hasn't been a call for a full weekly preview in a while. Probably a good thing since I'm sure you needed a break from reading long posts after the holiday fixture congestion and I know I needed a break from writing them.

Manchester City's new £27 million man, Edin Dzeko, wasted no time in ingratiating himself with the club's support yesterday, with less than two minutes of his official unveiling ceremony gone before the Bosnian target man proclaimed that 'most people from Manchester are City fans' a premeditated taunt that has seemingly gone down rather well with the blue-hewn Mancunian population.

Morning all. Throughout January Soccerlens are going to be bringing you a daily round-up of the morning's various goings-on. Be it juicy morsels of spurious transfer gossip or real, actual bona fide news, rest assured, we'll have it covered.

Here's this morning's batch.

Dzeko deal reaches terminal velocity.