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See the bolded below.Manchester City's Carlos Tevez parades 'RIP Fergie' sign

Manchester City have apologised after striker Carlos Tevez was pictured with a sign saying "RIP Fergie" during his side's Premier League title parade.

The former Manchester United forward poked fun at former boss Sir Alex Ferguson, as City paraded their trophy on an open-top bus through Manchester.

The sign was thought to refer to a 2009 response by Ferguson, when asked if United would ever be City's underdogs.

Ferguson said at the time: "Not in my lifetime".

A City spokeswoman said: "The creation of the tasteless material is in itself reprehensible and in accepting and brandishing it, Carlos has made a significant error of judgement.

"The club wishes to express its sincerest apologies to Sir Alex Ferguson and Manchester United Football Club for any offence or distress caused."
Tevez at City


Tevez, who left United in 2009 for City, said: "I got carried away in the excitement of the moment and I certainly didn't mean any disrespect to Sir Alex Ferguson, who I admire as a man and a manager."

The 28-year-old former Boca Juniors and Corinthians forward moved to English football in 2006, joining West Ham.

After helping them avoid relegation from the Premier League, he moved onto United, where he spent two seasons, winning two Premier League trophies and the Champions League. He scored 34 goals in 87 goals for the Red Devils.

But in the summer of 2009 he moved across Manchester to rivals City.

Tevez was top scorer in each of his first two years at Eastlands but this season was punctuated by a self-imposed spell back in Argentina after an argument with manager Roberto Mancini about his alleged refusal to warm up in a Champions League game with Bayern Munich.

Mancini had said Tevez would not feature for him again but brought him back in for the title run-in, with former City player Rodney Marsh saying: "Mancini will be sacked if Tevez plays and City don't win the title."

He impressed on his return to City, scoring four goals in 10 games, and featured in the final day win over QPR that clinched their maiden Premier League title.

And the striker has now said he could stay at the club months after it looked certain he would

ifysoft: Its ON.. New Season Loading.. We shall see who laughs After the new season.. That City Match with QPR should be looked into for possible match fixing... 2 goals in 4 mins is impossible..

jmoore:

Man utd 1- 6 Man City who is the underdog ? I think Sir Alex predicted his death, if Man City keeps beating Man utd he will die soon.

ifysoft: Its ON.. New Season Loading.. We shall see who laughs After the new season.. That City Match with QPR should be looked into for possible match fixing... 2 goals in 4 mins is impossible..

Akpu.Nku:
i have ask my self times with out number, why most of the Chelsea fans are very useless ? i mean 98% of them are slowpoke

chrisley024: All these make d game more entertainin n interestin!

fortyfeet:
do you have the answer now? if no, ask TEVEZ. if yes, go to TEVEZ for correction.

lanred81: Guys guys guys,why is everybody sayin all dis ? Ferguson did not say city will never win d league in his lifetime,he said United will never be underdogs to City."Not in my lifetime" now if Tevez can't speak english,can't we too? Tevez is a confused asshole!

rasputinn: Yes Alex Ferguson deserves some jabs,but not this arrant display of foollishness from Tevez that,truth be told,is the most undeserving of that medal.Good thing he has now been told how very dispensable he is @ the Eastlands.I predict he has a short time to stay at the club

otus4me: This is a fake pics, he can never do that. He didn't have a beef wit sir alex ferguson.

kingsilly: The poster was in retaliation to comments
made by Ferguson previously in the season
when he said that City would never win the
title 'in his lifetime'.
so who first find trouble??

elampiro: Tevez was bitter with the way he left United in 2009. At that time, he felt he left unceremoniously. Man U bought Tevez from West Ham, but he could not exactly repeat his form in Man United as he was overshadowed by Rooney and Ronaldo. He worked hard, but he could not fit into United pattern of play and he appeared to slow the pace of play or delay the attacking speed whenever the ball was passed to him. He would make three-four wrong passes out of five in crucial matches. In the Champion's League final 2008 against Chelsea, he missed two glaring chances that could have burried the match when Man U was 1-0 up, later Lampard equalised and the match went into penalty. In 2008-2009 season he was mostly used as substitute or alternate striker to Berbatov who just arrived from Totteham. Tevez could not produce the kind of performance Ferguson wanted for a top striker, hence the need to sell him to pave way for Berbatov to settle.

Frankiss44:

Get your facts right pls... Fergie didn't say Citeh won't win the title... What he said was the man utd will never be underdogs to Citeh in his life time.
What Tevez did was stupid and its good his club has apologized for the love of the game.

Holacunlay: That's not matured enough.

Tattooboy: perhaps. But if Fergie is not dead, how could Man City win? ''Not in My Lifetime''.

Abeyjide: [/quote][quote]

Tattooboy: perhaps. But if Fergie is not dead, how could Man City win? ''Not in My Lifetime''.

kingsilly: The poster was in retaliation to comments
made by Ferguson previously in the season
when he said that City would never win the
title 'in his lifetime'.
so who first find trouble??

elampiro: Tevez was bitter with the way he left United in 2009. At that time, he felt he left unceremoniously. Man U bought Tevez from West Ham, but he could not exactly repeat his form in Man United as he was overshadowed by Rooney and Ronaldo. He worked hard, but he could not fit into United pattern of play and he appeared to slow the pace of play or delay the attacking speed whenever the ball was passed to him. He would make three-four wrong passes out of five in crucial matches. In the Champion's League final 2008 against Chelsea, he missed two glaring chances that could have burried the match when Man U was 1-0 up, later Lampard equalised and the match went into penalty. In 2008-2009 season he was mostly used as substitute or alternate striker to Berbatov who just arrived from Totteham. Tevez could not produce the kind of performance Ferguson wanted for a top striker, hence the need to sell him to pave way for Berbatov to settle. Tevez was to go to Liverpool but his agent preferred City because he felt it would be direspectful to United if Tevez played for the club's number one rival. When Tevez left, he started insulting Ferguson instantly, he cited that bringing Berbatove was unneccessary and that unsettled him the more, having already been put under pressure from the performance of Rooney, Ronaldo, Park and even Nani. He said if he scored against Man United, he would run towards the bench and make mockery of Fergie. But it was not until a carling cup match he got a goal for City via a penalty, but city still lost the match, and Tevez was unable to mock Fergie as Adebayo had earlier been sanctioned by FA for mocking his old club. It is most important to state here that it was in reponse to an interview, when asked if he thinks City will dominate Man U in the EPL with the way they were buying big players, that Ferguson responded mentiond that will not be in his lifetime. It was more of a general statement. All these are still vivid in my memory because I follow Man United deeply.