Manchester City striker Carlos Tevez could be in more trouble after he missed training without permission on Wednesday in order to return to Argentina. Following a scheduled day off, Tevez was expected at his Premier league club's Carrington training ground Wednesday, but failed to appear, according to a source close to City. “He has gone to visit his family,” Tevez's PR advisor Paul McCarthy said. The Argentine was charged with misconduct after refusing to warm up as a substitute in a Champions League match against Bayern Munich in September. He was fined four weeks' wages which was later halved following an intervention by the Professional Footballers Association (PFA). “He has accepted the fine, we felt it was time to draw a line under the situation and move on,” McCarthy said. “Carlos has always admitted he failed to resume warming up, not that he failed to enter the field of play and that was underlined by the PFA's judgement.” Mancini said last week that the Argentina international need only say sorry if he wanted to play for City again. But Tevez, who asked for a move in the last transfer window because he was unhappy in Manchester and wanted to be closer to his family, is likely to be sold in January. The forward was not selected for the Argentina squad for its World Cup qualifiers against Bolivia and Colombia on Friday and next Tuesday respectively. Cameron calls FIFA's poppy ban ‘outrageous' British Prime Minister David Cameron called it “outrageous” that FIFA has refused to allow England players to wear embroidered red poppies on their football shirts to honor Britain's war dead. Cameron said Wednesday that he still hoped FIFA will allow the poppies for England's friendly against world champion Spain at Wembley Stadium on Saturday. FIFA rejected a request by the English Football Association to allow players to wear the poppies to mark Remembrance Day on Nov. 11 — when Commonwealth countries pay tribute to members of the armed forces who have died on duty since World War I. The issue was even raised in Britain's parliament as world football's ruling body maintained its stance that it could not allow any symbol that might be construed as political. “This seems outrageous,” Cameron said. “The idea that wearing a poppy to remember those who have given their lives for our freedom is a political act is absurd. Wearing a poppy is an act of huge respect and national pride. “I hope FIFA will reconsider.” The poppy is an official symbol of remembrance in many countries because they were the first plants that rose from the barren battlefields after World War I. British sports minister Hugh Robertson wrote to FIFA general secretary Jerome Valcke this week to back the FA's request.
