Manchester City go into their Champions League clash with CSKA Moscow amid great tension between the two clubs. The Daily Mail says City and Wednesday's opponents Moscow have been at loggerheads since last season's Champions League fixtures when the Barclays Premier League champions complained that midfielder Yaya Toure had been racially abused.
It has emerged that CSKA took the petty feuding to new levels last time by refusing to provide anything substantial for City's players to eat in the visitors' dressing room two weeks ago.
It is customary in football for the home club to provide hot food high in carbohydrate for both sets of players to snack on after a game to help them replace lost energy. This is particularly important in European games when teams often have long plane journeys home immediately after matches.
In the modern age, clubs at this high level usually provide a range of food including pizza, pasta, muffins and doughnuts. CSKA, however, laid on only a few bits of fruit for City to eat, leaving Pellegrini and his players in a rage as they left the stadium.
