Source: SKY_Sports
Fergie in Tevez taunt
// A bit of a hack but it works// The article snippet is wrapped onto a second line, even when #article-sub is emptyif( $("div#article-sub").children().length == 0 ) {$("div#article-sub").remove();} Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson is unconcerned by Carlos Tevez's possible absence ahead of the Manchester derby this weekend. City travel to Old Trafford to take on the champions with doubts over their former United striker Tevez, who is struggling to overcome a knee injury to face his old club.The blow would be a major miss for City but Ferguson insists it should not concern his rivals as much as the suspension of top scorer Emmanuel Adebayor.Adebayor received a three-match ban for violent conduct during City's 4-2 win over Arsenal last week and will miss the mouth-watering derby as a result.The Togo international has scored in each of City's four league games this season and when asked if he expects Tevez to feature in the match he gave a carefree response. "It doesn't bother me one bit - I think their best player is not playing," Ferguson said on Sky Sports News."Adebayor has been their star player, there is no question about that. He has scored in every game. That's their loss really."The pair head into the duel both on 12 points with City taking maximum points from their four games while United have lost one of their five matches so far.This season's fixture has added spice as City spent £120million in the summer and now consider themselves a genuine force to be reckoned with.Title talkWhile recognising their perfect start to the season, Ferguson was eager to brush aside City's title credentials and instead highlighted that themselves and Chelsea already have the know-how."They've (City) had a good start, and in this league you can't afford to lose games and we've lost one already to Burnley and we can't afford defeats, that's the nature of our league."If you remember going back a few years ago when Chelsea won their two titles, they got off to a fantastic start straight away and we were playing catch-up, and we had to do something about that."The following year we got a good start ourselves, we brought our training forward, we changed our training programmes to make sure we got a good start to the season."In my time this club has always programmed our training to be good in the second half, today I don't think you get that time, you can't afford that luxury."Chelsea have started the season well again - new coach, new ambitions, new expectations - and they're top of the league and we're playing catch-up already, three points catch-up."