Lasse Hallstrom's classic did not feature Carlos Tevez

Last week it was the Anfield cat decidedly unimpressed by Brad Friedel's overtures, yesterday it was Carlos Tevez whining about how he was "treated like a dog" by Roberto Mancini.

Lets face it, Joleon Lescott scoring City's winners is a sign of serious trouble because Wayne Rooney has ominously kicked it up a notch for Utd.

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Darron Gibson, did his former club Man Utd a huge favour by striking the one lethal blow last evening. Landon Donovan continuing his great assist work. City were undone before one could say Denis Stracqualursi.

Goodison Park is not exactly happy hunting grounds for City, winning only two of their last 15 encounters in that venue.

There was some fond hope that the man handcuffed to the goalpost was making a grandiose statement about the unholy sums of money destroying football (read City). Or maybe he had tried handcuffing himself to a badger the previous evening with unsatisfying results and wanted something different.

Video: Carling Cup: Liverpool/Man City

Kenny Dalglish feeling the heat after a series of underwhelming displays by Liverpool in the Premiership was able to get a satisfying consolation in today's Carling Cup match pipping City to the Wembley finals.

Nigel De Jong gave City the lead to level the aggregate.

szólj hozzá: Man City v Tottenham 3:2 MOTD

The first half was as dull and dragging as the Utd vs Arsenal match. The second half was just the opposite - a high voltage pulsating encounter between 1st placed City and 3rd placed Spurs. Roberto Mancini's squad went ahead in the second half through Samir Nasri and Joleon Lescott, both goals within minutes of each other.

Inter has tabled a £20.7m bid for the serial wantaway but Claudio Ranieri's statements show he remains unconvinced of Tevez's value to the team.

"There is balance now and the team has become solid. So we need to understand how much this lad can give and how much he can take away.

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.

Glen Johnson's two footed lunge on Joleon Lescott

Watch Glen Johnson's tackle on Joleon Lescott and tell me why Vincent Kompany was sent off for his tackle on Nani and Johnson wasn't?

Tevez's 52 goals in 91 City appearances may again prove appealing to Mancini

Alexandre Pato put the spokes on a PSG move as he came out with a statement.

" Milan is my home. I did not want to interrupt my career with the Rossoneri after winning my first two trophies with this shirt.

szólj hozzá: City v Liverpool 0:1 EXTENDED

Have at the 20 minutes highlights before it is taken down. Stefan Savic brings down Daniel Agger and Steven Gerrard converts the PK in the 12th minute. Liverpool were much the better team for large parts of the match in the first half. In the second they played good hard defensive ball to deny City at the Etihad.

The latest L'Uomo Vogue has Mario Balotelli featured on the cover and a candid and revealing interview with the City star that doesn't quite give the lie to a grumpy, immature, prankster. Yes, he did total his £100,000 Audi the next day, set off firecrackers in his bathroom causing major damage, got into a training ground spat with Micah Richards, and earned Mancini's disapproval smoking cigarettes.

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Vincent Kompany should never have been sent off. It wasn't a blind lunging two foot tackle which could have harmed Nani. He actually goes low to corral the ball with his right instep and gets it very cleanly. There was little contact.

Chris Foy really made a royal mess.

Paul Scholes is back to Utd

Man Utd is making Rob Smyth eat his words. Wayne Rooney has scored two including a penalty and Danny Welbeck's wondrous volley rounds of the tally.

Vincent Kompany was sent off in the 12th minute for a two footed tackle on Nani which got the ball but not the man however Chris Foy, who else (memories of the Spurs vs Stoke match linger on) thought differently.

Roberto, ditch Sheikh Mansour for Mitt Romney. He's got cash to give away.

The Italian is complaining that he's down to two central midfielders and one striker. James Milner and Nigel De Jong will start in the middle and Sergio Aguero patrols up front.

The Ivory Coast has refused his demand to release Yaya and Kolo Toure till after the Man Utd FA Cup showdown for their ACN campaign.

szólj hozzá: City v Liverpool 3:0 EXTENDED

Pepe Reina flubbed what should have been a fairly simple stop off a Sergio Aguero drive. Liverpool dominated possession thereafter but it was City once again going up through Yaya Toure's header at the half an hour mark.

Gerrard and Craig Bellamy were introduced by Kenny Dalglish after an hour and Liverpool looked more mobile going forward although they failed to look threatening in the final third once again.

szólj hozzá: Sunderland v City 1:0 HIGHLIGH

Sunderland continued the theme of the underdogs upsetting the favourites this weekend as they stunned City at the Stadium of Light with as Ji Dong-won's last second goal. Clearly offside. But the Black Cats won't be complaining. And it was a lovely bit of skill by the South Korean as he slalomed around Joe Hart to caress the ball into an open goal.

Juventus pushed themselves into pole position to acquire Carlos Tevez. On offer: £21m for the much troubled striker. Juve's Serie rivals, Milan are also interested but their loan offer for the next six months with a possible permanent deal at the end of the season was not attractive to City, who are looking to get rid of Tevez permanently.

Halloween came early to Old Trafford

City fans would like nothing more than Sunday's humiliation of Utd to signal a shift in the balance of power. Pundits are already debating its merits. 6-1 is a historic statement and the margin could have been even larger if Edin Dzeko had been on target in his first few attempts.

Carlos Tevez faces the maximum allowable punishment under league rules plus docked two weeks of pay which amounts to £500,000. Pocket change for the league's most well paid player. Stiffer penalties are being contemplated including banning Tevez from any further participation in the sport.

The more savoury outcome for Tevez will be a January transfer at a bargain basement price to a club who look on themselves as halfway houses for disturbed players.

Carlos Tevez's new home

The dust has barely settled but Carlos Tevez is already getting offers. This one from Limavady United in the second division of the Northern Ireland league.

The raison d'etre for this one goes something like this, " We are sure you will appreciate our efforts to keep Tevez from getting fat prior to his sale.

The people's player is getting a bit of a earful back home. Pablo Ramon for Ole:

" At Man Utd, Carlos Tevez enjoyed an idolatry that fell apart when the two parted company. Now he is ending in the other half of the city by ruining his reputation."

" What Tevez seems to forget, to rebel is one thing, to confuse rights with obligations is yet another.

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The Argentinian striker sits put in protest which prompts a furious Roberto Mancini response.

It's looking a bit like a video game where you score points for bad behaviour

Tell me whose jaw did not drop seeing Roberto Mancini sub Edin Dzeko with Nigel De Jong with City two goals down? Which manager does that? There is enough attacking talent left on the City bench to launch a third world war and Mancini goes for a holding midfielder.

Quite the plot. Someone in the middle of the night sometime last year managed to hack into City CEO Garry Cook's email, to send a highly offensive reply to Nedum Onuoha's mother, who has cancer, ridiculing her illness. The reaction was predictably one of outrage.

The reply was addressed to Brian Marwood, City's director of football operations but the hacker clicked on reply all and the damage was done.

"I really believe if you are a player who thinks only about money then you could end up at Manchester City," said Clichy. "You have to think if you want to play for a big club and have your image or if you want to play for a good club and earn big money. When you ask someone to move for something like £300,000 a week it is just crazy.

szólj hozzá: Bolton - Manchester City 2:3

Jussi Jaskailanen could have done better with a David Silva shot which he failed to stop cleanly. However there was no mistaking the quality of the Gareth Barry goal which followed. This was one in a lifetime because when was the last time Barry and quality were mentioned in the same sentence?

Samir Nasri maybe flying Etihad

This news if true could be the best bit of business for Arsenal as yet. Nasri would have left on a Bosman with his contract in it's last year.

City and Utd were both looking for a creative midfielder and had sounded their interest in Nasri earlier in the transfer window but at that time the club was intent on negotiating with him over improved terms.

We waited and waited: Samuel Beckett did write about this though

Man City showed us two ways they could score goals. A clever set piece and an open field piledriver which David De Gea could have stopped.

United showed a dozen ways. The equalizer was initiated by Tom Cleverly and what ensued was an intricate web of passes with preternatural positioning involving Danny Welbeck, Wayne Rooney, and Nani as they wove their way around a tightly packed City defense.

Sergio Aguero now in a location near you

Carlos Tevez must have got the message loud and clear. Whether he leaves or doesn't Sergio Aguero is set to join City at an estimated price of £38m. However it does set up a quandary for Roberto Mancini who seems to have a line up promising to break all sorts of goalscoring records but are emotionally and mentally brittle.

The former Oasis frontman, a huge City fan introduces their new togs with his version of Blue Moon. The opening scene looks like something out of Planet Of The Apes. Hopefully City's performance sputters on the pitch like this downbeat song which puts you to sleep halfway.

The Asian tour saw Arsene Wenger upbraid Man City for their obvious ploy to circumvent financial fair play rules by signing an inflated £400m sponsorship deal part of which changes Eastlands to Etihad Stadium.

City can now put this amount in the revenue column and claim they are living within their means.

Tevez might be missing out flying in style

An amount of £150m to switch the name from Eastlands to Etihad. It's nice to have deep pocketed friends rush in to save you from those pesky financial fair play rules looming in the horizon. The

The players have a spanking new Airbus 330 to ferry them around for their matches.

Carlos Tevez whose career trajectory off the pitch has been a bewildering zigzag of contract disputes, perceived slights, disillusionment, and familial absences is unsurprisingly in the news again for wanting to leave City.

The striker submitted a transfer request because he wishes to be closer to his daughters and estranged partner, Vanesa who live in Argentina.

Kolo Toure is banned for six months from all football because he took pills that belonged to his wife.

Arsene Wenger on his former protege:

"He wants to control his weight a little bit because that's where he has some problems and he took the product of his wife."

Toure had problems controlling his weight while he was playing football.

Man Utd on the bubble for a record 19th top flight title and Man City with a chance to win their first silverware since 1976.

United are at Blackburn and Man City play Stoke at Wembley in the FA Cup final.

Ryan Giggs makes his 573rd appearance the most in the Premier League going past David James (572).

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It's not been a good end to Peter Crouch's season. A bone headed send off against Real in the first 15 minutes of their Champions League first leg and now an own goal which sent Man City to their Champions League debut.

As the commentator points out Danny Rose, a familiar name to Arsenal fans was a step slow in getting to James Milner who sent in a stinging cross to which Crouch reflexively stuck out his leg.

Roberto Di Matteo has been sacked. A victim of unrealistic expectations generated in the wake of West Brom's Premiership return and some very bright wins earlier in the season. For Carlito, a great birthday celebration.

8+ minutes of highlights.

Some handbags reported in the Man City training grounds between former Arsenal mates, Adebayor and Kolo Toure.

The reports of Edin Dzeko arriving at the Eastlands has further endangered Adebayor's status at City. The disgruntled striker is probably wishing he had joined AC Milan when he had the opportunity.