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Back in November 2011, Carlos Tevez went AWOL from Manchester City for over a month resulting in the football club taking disciplinary action; charging the Argentine striker with gross misconduct. The charges meant a four-week fine (this was then forcibly reduced by the PFA to two weeks), but they gave Tevez the opportunity to appeal, which he did.

Now it has come to light that Tevez’s appeal has been rejected and, in addition to the original two week fine, they are fining him another 6-weeks wages and docking him two months pay for his continuous refusals to return from Argentina. The total cost of these fines totals £3.3 million.

To add further salt to the wound for Tevez, City have also stated they intend to withhold around £6 million worth of loyalty payments, and the club is refusing to allow the Argentine to transfer to another club for less than his estimated market value of €30 million plus.

Andy Murray has progressed to the quarter finals of the Australian Open after worn-out opponent, Mikhail Kukushkin throws in the towel after a mere 48 minutes of match play.

Despite having the victory all but given to him, the outcome of the match was decidedly in Murray’s favour anyway with the Scot often breaking away. The final scorecard was 6-1 6-1 1-0  in Murray’s favour before the Kazakh opponent had to call it a day.

Kukushkin showed signs of exhaustion almost immediately, presumably as a result of his previous long-running match combined with the considerable heat of the day.

Murray even went as far as to say “It was boring” when speaking about the match afterwards.

This is looking like a bad week for Harry Redknapp. First of all, the Tottenham manager was forced to witness a last-minute defeat of his team by Manchester City. This outcome has a small amount of controversy behind it as the final goal was scored by Mario Belotelli in an injury time penalty, whom many are saying should have been sent off after what looked like a deliberate stamp on Scott Parker’s head (see video below).

Putting aside his team’s defeat, Rednknapp is also facing some legal problems too. He has been taken to court over allegations that he avoided paying tax on certain payments during his time in charge of Portsmouth.

England gave in to a 10-wicket defeat giving Pakistan the first point of the Test series cricket in Dubai.

Even the ‘best’ of England’s batsmen failed to make a mark. In the first innings Matt Prior scored the best by far: a somewhat meagre 70 runs. Kevin Pietersen and Alastair Cook only managed to score 5 runs between them, gaining 2 and 3 runs respectively.

Pietersen then went out for duck in the second innings, and the likes of Andrew Strauss, Prior and Cook again failing to make any worthwhile impact; each struggling to get more than a handful of runs.

The final scorecard: Pakistan 338 & 15-0, England 192 & 160 and declare defeat by 10 wickets

In what ended being a pretty nail-biting finish for both sides, there were plenty of tough decisions referee Chris Foy had to make in the Manchester derby FA Cup clash on Sunday. Fans from both sides will argue that there should have been at least one extra penalty each following some lenience (or possibly ignorance?) from Foy. However, there is one decision in particular that is sure to have irked many of the blues’ fans: the sending off of Vincent Kompany after just 12 minutes of play.

Footage of the tackle in question against Nani does appear to show  Kompany successfully winning the ball before catching the United winger. A decision is expected from the FA before Manchester City’s match against Liverpool this week.

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