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Carlos Tevez has escaped punishment from the FA for his part in the clash with Joey Barton on the final day of the season.
After the highly charged game between Manchester City and QPR, Joey Barton was handed a 12 match ban for his conduct towards Tevez, Sergio Aguero and City captain Vincent Kompany.
Got away with one: Carlos Tevez (left) escaped punishment for his slap on Joey Barton (right)
After Barton was sent off, City went on to record a title winning victory, beating QPR 3-2 with a last-minute Aguero strike.
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The QPR midfielder clocked Tevez with an elbow, and received a straight red card from Mike Dean. He then booted Aguero in the back of the leg before throwing a headbutt in the direction of Kompany.
Beforehand Tevez appeared to strike Barton.
Dean had admitted, had he seen Tevez's actions, he would have sent him off too.
An FA disciplinary commission agreed that the Argentinian should have been dismissed, but will not take further action.
The commission's report, printed in The Times on Monday, read: 'Mr Dean was questioned (by the commission) about the 'Tevez incident' for which Barton was dismissed.
'It was confirmed that neither the referee nor the assistant saw the alleged incident of Mr Tevez striking Mr Barton, although Mr Barton immediately made representations to Mr Dean.
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'That is what happened and such comments by Mr Barton can be clearly seen in the video.
'The commission accept that Mr Barton was aggrieved by the action of Mr Tevez and Mr Dean confirmed that had the incident been seen by the officials as shown by the clip supplied by Mr Barton, it would have been an automatic red card.
The commission find that this does not, however, excuse the subsequent action by Mr Barton in relations to Messers Kompany and Aguero.'
Why no action against Tevez? Have I missed something?
- confused, Chester, 29/5/2012 04:16
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