Manchester City striker Carlos Tevez has branded his former Manchester United captain Gary Neville an "idiot" after their clash this week. Tevez and Neville exchanged gestures during the clubs' Carling Cup semi-final clash at Eastlands on Tuesday night after Neville claimed in an interview at the weekend that United boss Sir Alex Ferguson had done the right thing in letting Tevez leave in the summer.
Tevez was upset when he first heard of Neville's newspaper comments.
"I was the first to sit down to have lunch in the team hotel and all the papers were laid out," he said.
"I looked at them as, although I couldn't read them, there were (photos) of Gary Neville and they were talking about me.
"Then I asked my team-mates what it said.
"I thought to myself, 'what's this idiot talking about me for when I never said anything about him, when there was never any [problems] with us?'
"It was a lack of respect for a (former) team-mate, aside from the fact that we had won a lot of things together."
The two teams face off again in the second leg at Old Trafford on Wednesday.
