Manchester City hero Peter Reid says Carlos Tevez has let the sport down.

Reid wrote in a column for the Daily Mail: "Carlos Tevez is a top player but he has let down himself, his profession and the man in the street who makes football what it is.

"I know from experience that Manchester City supporters are fanatical.

"They followed the team to places they shouldn't have been playing in 12 years ago in Division Two, and then go away to Bayern Munich thinking: 'This is a peak as a City fan'. To see a player then refuse to play for the club is ridiculous.

"Until recently I was manager at Plymouth. We had lads threatening to go on strike because they were not getting paid. But that was out of desperation. I watched as players worried where their next mortgage payment or rent was coming from.

"What Tevez earns in a week would probably cover Plymouth's wages for a month and you can imagine what those players would give to play Bayern Munich.

"Tevez says he has been misunderstood but the pictures tell a different story. How difficult is to interpret the statement 'You're going on', even if one speaks Spanish and the other Italian?"