Oh Tevez, What Are You Doing, Son?

Rick Chandler — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 11:30:55 EST

Although he's actually from Argentina, Carlos Tevez was all on board with the slant-eye throw down on Wednesday, as we see here following one of his three goals vs. Blackburn. The gesture of course was made famous by Spanish teams at the Beijing Olymipcs, and the Manchester United star has said that he would like to play in Spain at some point. It's clear that he would fit right in.

Of course Spain's recent history with the slant-eye gesture has been well-documented here, having started in Beijing, where the men's and women's hoops teams both got in on the act.

And suddenly it was everywhere on the Iberian Peninsula (sorry, Portugal, you're apparently innocent). The big surprise is that Europe looked at this and gave a large collective yawn. But then, Europe is weird.

In addition to insulting an entire race, Tevez may have gotten a coach fired on Wednesday. Nice combo.

Is Carlos Tevez Awakening Old Spanish Ghosts? [Machochip]
Carlos Tevez Hat-Trick Leaves Blackburn Manager Paul Ince On The Brink [Times Online]

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mjdeadspin — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 16:57:08 EDT

The Premiership is taking the day off, due to some Euro 2008 qualifying games, and some other international friendlies going down. But the big story right now is Carlos Tevez moving from Brazilian club Corinthians to Premiership team West Ham. A guy like Tevez, you'd think would prefer a bigger club, likely to occupy a little higher place in the league table. Tevez says it's because he'll get more playing time with the Hammers. Sportolysis thinks it's something a little more sinister and underhanded. Interesting stuff.

England 5-0 Andorra. England continues to beat some international ass under the tutelage of Steve McClaren. I know it's just been Greece and Andorra, but they rarely killed anybody under Sven Goran-Eriksson. Credit the Andorrans for trying their hardest to cheat, though, taking some borderline tackles, and flopping like fish (or a woman, for that matter) on Latrell Sprewell's boat. Jermain Defoe and Peter Crotch scored twice each for the Brits, and Steven Gerrard got one of his own.

Scotland 6-0 Faroe Islands. Proving once again that if it's not Scottish, it's crap. That may not be entirely fair, actually... the Faroe Islands actually tied Scotland twice recently, in 1999 and 2002. No such luck today as Kris Boyd had two goals for the Scots. The Faroe Islands, in an illustration of just how bad they are, lost their opening qualifying game against Georgia, 6-0. 6-0 to freaking Georgia. Georgia

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