Manchester City striker Carlos Tevez has been found guilty of gross misconduct and fined six weeks' wages after flying home to Argentina without permission, a club source told Reuters. Tevez has been in Argentina since November as his agents try and negotiate a move to AC Milan.

City have obviously had enough of Tevez's antics and told Reuters:

"In response to speculation, the club confirms that Carlos Tevez was found guilty by a disciplinary hearing on 21 December of gross misconduct for serious breaches of contract and was fined six weeks' wages," the source said.

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It's interesting that even this morning the focus appears to be on a controversial substitution when the bigger issue is the fact we've just lost our third league game in a row, taking our total of defeats in the league this season to eight.

When Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain's number went up in the 74th minute many of the 60,000 at the stadium made it quite clear what they thought of the decision.

Just when everything seemed against us, when the press are making claims that there is a player mutiny going on at Stamford Bridge, Chelsea step up and beat Wolves 2-1 with goals from Ramires and Frank Lampard.
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Chelsea midfielder Ramires gives Chelsea the lead a Molineaux' incidently Chelsea's foreign players celebrated with the bench while Terry, Lampard and Cole just got on with it. Maybe there is a mutiny at Chelsea?

It's amazing what a change in coaches can do. Just three weeks after Thomas Rongen (yeah, the same guy who coached the Mutiny, Revolution and Chivas in MLS and the US U20s) took over for American Samoa, they notched their first win... ever. And to follow up that 'miracle', they drew Cook Island 1-1 after they scored an own goal in a game which they dominated for extended periods of time.

Don't say the Portland Timbers never won anything in their first year as it looks like they're taking home the trophy for "most polite."

Well, not really. In actuality, the award is for the team that committed the fewest fouls over the entire season. The Timbers came in a low 347 fouls with the Colorado Rapids coming in next at 374 fouls.

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has admitted to the media that half of his players wanted to leave the Emirates this summer. In the face of a potential player mutiny following the sales of Cesc Fabregas, Samir Nasri, Gael Clichy, and Emmanuel Eboue, Wenger found it difficult to hold on to the rest of his squad.

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What a nightmare in Munich for Manchester City – Carlos Tevez went on strike and Gareth Barry a go-slow. After his Munich mutiny, Tevez was reportedly viciously abused on his return to Manchester Airport.

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.

Kenny Dalglish will refuse to give up on his pursuit of Stewart Downing, despite Aston Villa's reluctance to sell.
The Liverpool boss has identified England winger Downing as his number one attacking priority in the summer transfer window, and is ready to offer big money to get his man.
New Villa manager Alex McLeish has made keeping the exciting international one of his main priorities, as he looks to head off fan unrest at the club.

Such is the vacuum in good news about Arsenal at the moment that our site which is graced by a plethora of great writers (and many not shy of giving their opinion) cannot generate a post for today ..... accept this modest offering.

Everything is currently just speculation in the transfer market, but the pattern of hierarchy in the movement in players is much as most of us would have suspected.

It's the Mounties vs the Highway Patrol! Or something. In all honesty, the winner of this game will win Group C. Due respect to Guadeloupe and Panama and everything but... right. And if the US has one more miserable first half, I smell a mutiny. On to ze links! - Battle in Detroit Rock City will decide Group C- Canada invades!

Gerard Houllier has had a less than auspicious start at Aston Villa with his crowning achievement potentially being relegation at the end of the season. Brad Friedel has rubbished talk of a mutiny at Villa, but recent results show that very little is right at the Midlands club.

Since Houiller began in the role, he has had two major run-ins with the fans.

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"I say, Patrice. You're a foolhardy brat is what you bloomin' well are!"

Former France coach Raymond Domenech has broken his silence of Les Bleu's capitulation at last summer's South African World Cup, lambasting the squad as a 'bunch of foolhardy brats'.