Blues striker comes over all Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen

Perhaps unsurprising for a man with a penchant for renting accomodation and promptly smashing it up, according to The Sun this morning Carlos Tevez has taken a sledgehammer to his newly accquired executive boxes at the City of Manchester Stadium (a ground barely seven years old), knocking a wall through to combine the two:

The “super box” - which will cost him £70,000 a season - is big enough to accommodate 20 pals. It is decked out with fridges, tellies and other luxury gizmos

Ignoring the fact it’s 2009 and The Sun still consider televisions and refrigerators ‘luxury gizmos’, we reckon Tevez will already have a few ideas of what do with the extended space - top of the list being a bigger venue for he and bessie mate Patrice Evra to celebrate Park Ji Sung’s birthday next year.

Premier League, Sat, 5.30pm, Setanta Sports 1, Free £10 bet

There might not be a Sky Sport’s super-duper Grand Slam Sunday this season but this pretty enormous Saturday is probably the closest thing to it. In the morning, Liverpool face Manchester United and then, at half five, the two richest clubs in the Premier League - Robinho’s new club and the team Robinho actually wanted to join - go head-to-head. Here’s why chickendinner believe the original success buyers are going to come out on top:

1. Chelsea are the only team in the country that haven’t lost a league game in 2008.

2. The Blues have won their last four league away games and comfortably had the best away record in the league last season - winning thirteen of their nineteen games.

3. Manchester City have beaten Chelsea in just one of their previous eleven home games against them in the Premier League - although that win was the first loss of Jose Mourinho’s Chelsea career.

Glamour tie against Faroe Islands side encounters problems

Yesterday we told you how Manchester City’s forthcoming UEFA Cup home tie has been moved to Barnsley’s Oakwell Stadium because soft rockers Bon Jovi tore up the pitch.

The July 17th away leg against Faroese side EB/Streymur has also had to be moved, as their tiny picturesque Við Margáir stadium holds just 1,000 people. This is obviously not enough to cope with Manchester City’s travelling army, plus the expense fishing all of Darius Vassell’s wayward shots out of the sea was deemed far too high. As Mark Hughes was less than happy about kicking off his City managerial debut in a location where the most viable means of transport is a mountain goat, the tie will now be played at one of the bigger grounds of the tiny Danish province.

More pictures of their charming little stadium after the jump…

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The last time Rangers played in a proper European final, in Barcelona against Dynamo Moscow in 1972, General Franco was still directing policing operations in Spain. Unfortunately for the old fascist, his forces of law and order found Rangers fans in a boisterous mood, as they celebrated their win by joining the players on the pitch before the game was over. The truncheons of the fat-bellied Guardia Civil were no match for the granite-headed protestants, and the soundly thrashed police were forced to beat a humiliating retreat, thus guaranteeing a warm welcome for all Scots in Barcelona for years to come. According to Graham Hunter, writing in Scotland’s Daily Herald, the referee in that game, one Sr. Ortiz, refutes the idea