Carlos Tevez: Manchester City Malcontent Took Wrong Path To Get Point Across

Carlos Tevez is the most hated athlete in the world right now, and it's for a very good reason. 

We have all felt underused and out of sorts at our jobs. It is only natural to want to tell the boss to kiss off at the end of the day, but we don't. 

We have all had those days that never seem to end, only to have our manager or boss come in with some added criticism. It's at that point that we daydream about what we would say as we walk past that manager and out the door, but we don't actually do anything. 

Such outlandish and petulant acts are left for the movies, as well as the football pitch, it seems.

On Tuesday, Carlos Tevez made his intentions well known. 

He didn't ask his manager, Robert Mancini to have a closed-door meeting. He didn't raise the issue before or after the game. Instead, he chose to refuse his manager on the touchline as he was being asked to play in a Champions League away match. 

Mancini states Tevez was asked to sub in for Samir Nasri. At that point one of two things happened. City's boss contends that Tevez refused to sub in, a crime against team and sport. 

Tevez claims it is just a misunderstanding, that he merely didn't want to warm-up a second time. ESPN quotes the malcontent as he tries to make good with a football-loving world. 

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"I would like to apologize to all Manchester City fans, with whom I have always had a strong relationship, for any misunderstanding that occurred in Munich. In Munich on Tuesday I had warmed up and was ready to play. This is not the right time to get into specific details as to why this did not happen. But I wish to state that I never refused to play."

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Either way, Tevez was in the wrong. Orders come from the top down, especially in sports. If a manager wants you to warm up 15 times ahead of a start, you do it. 

We have somehow moved from the classic sensibilities of following orders. Athletes may be free and liberated, but they have to follow a militaristic dynamic. 

Tevez may have refused something as grand as inclusion in a match or as benign as a warm up.

Either way he is in the wrong.

And that is why we have just seen the end of Carlos Tevez, the adored football player.