Tevez tells City fans to stop United baiting

Manchester City striker Carlos Tevez has urged the club’s fans to focus their energies on supporting City rather than taunting arch-rivals Manchester United.

Tevez joined City from United before the start of last season and soon afterwards his new supporters started the chant of “Fergie, Fergie, sign him up”, a dig directed at long-serving United manager Sir Alex Ferguson for letting the Argentina striker cross the Manchester divide to the dismay of many of the Old Trafford club’s fans.

But while United under Ferguson have won numerous trophies, the fact remains City’s last major piece of silverware was the 1976 English League Cup.

However, bankrolled by their wealthy Abu Dhabi owners, big-spenders City are now fourth in the Premier League table — two points behind second-placed United and three adrift of leaders Arsenal.

“The thing that would wind up Sir Alex more than anything is for us to win something and really start achieving things,” Tevez told ManC, the official Manchester City magazine.

“It is not the song that needs to change; it’s the attitude or mindset of our fans.

“Let’s not be thinking about Sir Alex Ferguson and Manchester United, we need to think of City and what we can do.

“What we have got to do is not to devote any of our time to United and just focus on ourselves.”