Night will follow day. Football fans will find something to moan at whatever happens, managers will blame referees when they lose, Britain’s Got Talent will be a topic of conversation in the office and I will lose the will to live. And Carlos Tevez, Joey Barton and Jermaine Pennant will find a way to ruin everything. All three have been at it again this week, Baton is facing a long ban for his antics during THAT game on Sunday, Tevez for his ridiculous holding up of a “RIP Fergie&rdq....

It was certainly a weekend for apologies. First Carlos Tevez said he wanted to come back to Manchester and help City win the league (surely the right thing for all concerned as this blog suggested a fortnight ago) then Mick McCarthy had to say sorry for his teams disgraceful second half capitulation in the Black Country derby. But they say these things come in threes and the one we all not just wanted, but needed to hear came too. As we have said before on this blog, somebody, somewhere at Liver....

As Derek McGovern put it in the Daily Mirror this week: “since the start of December, Manchester City have kissed goodbye to the Champions League, to the FA Cup and to the Carling Cup, but not to Carlos Tevez.” And so it was that perhaps the most surprising aspect of the transfer window is the fact that Carlos is still at the Etihad. In recent months it was said he was going to PSG, to one of the Milan Clubs, back to South America, that he was going to retire from football, but nothi....