The 28-year-old Argentina striker held up a banner designed to look like a gravestone and bearing the words &#39;RIP Fergie&#39; as City celebrated their title triumph over Manchester United during an open-top bus parade. <img alt="" src="/imagedata/2012/may/tevez15may.jpg" style="width: 500px; height: 342px; " /> Manchester City later released a statement apologising to Ferguson and criticised Tevez while the player - who it is believed took the banner from a fan - also said he &quot;didn't mean any disrespect&quot;. &quot;The creation of the tasteless material is in itself reprehensible and in accepting and brandishing it, Carlos has made a significant error of judgement,&quot; said a City spokeswoman. &quot;The club wishes to express its sincerest apologies to Sir Alex Ferguson and Manchester United Football Club for any offence or distress caused.&quot; Tevez for his part said he had just got carried away. &quot;I got carried away in the excitement of the moment and I certainly didn&#39;t mean any disrespect to Sir Alex Ferguson, who I admire as a man and a manager,&quot; he said. There was speculation it could have been a reference to a comment made by Ferguson in 2009 when he was asked whether United would ever be underdogs to their city rivals. &quot;Not in my lifetime,&quot; the United manager said. Tevez left United in 2009 and joined City. He spent several months in exile earlier this season after refusing to come off the bench during a Champions League game at Bayern Munich in September but returned to play a key role in the title run-in after making peace with coach Roberto Mancini. City were crowned champions for the first time in 44 years on Sunday when two injury time goals saw them to a 3-2 win over QPR that consigned United -- 1-0 winners at Sunderland -- to second place on goal difference.

Carlos Tevez landed himself in fresh controversy on Monday when he was pictured waving a mocked-up tombstone for Sir Alex Ferguson during Manchester City's Premier League title celebrations.

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