I really haven't seen any evidence of that on the pitch.
Mario Balotelli
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Been all over twitter, am I a cnut for saying that I think the lad is a fecking legend? The Premier League is much better with guys like him in it.Where'd you hear that?
Lots of MancS reporting it on twitter and Facebook. Usually I'd cry bullshit....but it's Balotelli!
I really am starting to warm to him. He's an idiot at times, but a lot of the stuff he does is harmless. He's just confused, and seems to have good intentions most of the time.
It's getting to the point now where someone could spread a rumour that Balotelli has had John McCrirrick's face tattooed on his knee, or he's punched a Doberman, and I'd think "yeah, that's actually quite possible." He's just a walking collection of mental stories.
If this guy doesn't get a reality TV show, it's a fecking crime. Not that I like them (reality TV shows) very much, but Mario is possibly the most entertaining person on the planet right now. feck the fact that he plays for City, I love the guy.
A reality show with Herman Cain, Balotelli and Charlie Sheen would be quite tasty. Toss in Lohan so Sheen can bang her while Balotelli lights sparklers in the room and Cain talks about the wrongs of abortion.
He's already a legend 
Contrived bollocks. PR driven nonsense.
You'll never be Cantona
You'll never be Cantona
Such an attention-seeking gobshite.
Depressing that people are so impressed by his childish bullshit.
Depressing that people are so impressed by his childish bullshit.
I agree wholeheartedly, he's a fecking beast! And he's a constant source of entertainment... I don't see how anyone can't like him, he's great value.
Completely agreed.
It's a sad reflection on society's obsession with celebrity that this dickhead gets so much love. He's a complete feckwit.
But he's going to crash and burn, and chances are he'll take a few with him... How can you not enjoy it all unravel?
Attention seeking he might be.
Better doing it this way than doing a Barton.
He's just a kid who is enjoying himself. And he happens to be a really talented player.
Not a huge fan, but its no reason to hate him.
Better doing it this way than doing a Barton.
He's just a kid who is enjoying himself. And he happens to be a really talented player.
Not a huge fan, but its no reason to hate him.
And Licorice....
Watching it unravel will obviously be fun. I just don't get why people call him a "legend" and stuff like that. It's weird.
Ewww, fecking hate that stuff, hate marmite as well.
Agreed.
I mean this guy is having fun because he has so much money and no problem with that.I too don't hate him.
But legend? really?
He's a teenage multi-millionaire who is so overpaid he can afford to drive round throwing cash out of the window of his car. Just for a laugh and to get noticed. In the middle of a crippling recession.
Obviously he's too thick to appreciate how unbelievably crass this is but you'd think people a bit brighter than him might stop short of hero-worshipping him for it.
I don't get it too. Why is acting like a twat material for being called 'legendary'?
Balotelli's CV:
>Survived a usually fatal disease at birth
>£10,000 in parking fines
>Car impounded 27 times
>£300,000 fine for throwing darts at the youth team
>Won £25,000 in a casino, gave £1,000 to a tramp outside
>Rescued a child from bullying
>Threw tomatoes at some Serie A manager
>Threw water balloons at Serie A meeting
>Started a fight with 4 bouncers, after breaking the no touching rule at a strip club
>Thinks milk with tea is strange
>Bibotelli saga
>Had a £120,000 Audi R8 imported and wrote it off within a week
>Had his friends approach girls in clubs and say "Balotelli will see you now."
>Sent to John Lewis by his mother to buy essentials for the house, like an ironing board
>Came back with a giant trampoline and a Vespa and Scalectrix
>Started fights with Kompany, Boateng and Tevez at training
>Was frequently seen at the AC Milan superstore while playing for inter
>Went on TV in an AC shirt with his name on while at inter
>U21s game for Italy, kicks a swedish player while he's down and proceeds to just sit on the pitch ignoring the opposition and the referee for about a minute.
>Is then offended when he gets sent off and protests about it
>He winked at Ferdinand at the semi final of the FA cup and celebrate in front of the Man Utd fans.
>After the FA cup final, on live TV, says "This season I have been s***. Can I say that?"
>Was stopped by police driving round Hulme (a real craphole) in his maserati with £25,000 cash on the passenger seat. When asked why he said "because I'm rich"
>Had to go off at half time in a game in Ukraine due to an allergy to the pitch
>Had to be physically hauled away by Zanetti for refusing to let Samuel Eto'o take a penalty that he had won
>Once broke up with a girlfriend via text while she was presenting a live television show
>Slept with a model while his girlfriend was asleep downstairs
>*** mental chicken hat
>When he won the European Golden Boy trophy, said he had never heard of Jack Wilshere
>Said he would find out who he was so he could remind Wilshere he came second
>Drove his car into a women's prison so he could have a look around
>Swore on live TV after the FA cup final
>Attempted a roulette back heel shot against LA Galaxy and missed
>Connections with the Naples Mafia, he even testified in court at a Mafia trial
>Brought to bench during International friendly.
>Set house on fire using fireworks
>Said only Messi is "a little stronger" than him, and he is better than all other players
>"Why always me?" shirt, made for him by City kitman Chappy
>Drove around Manchester high fiving city fans from his car the day after >1-6
>Became the face of a firework safety campaign days after setting his house on fire
>Hands £20 notes out to strangers when in Manchester
>Chanted Rooney! Rooney! at the prostitute who claimed to have slept with Wayne
>Survived a usually fatal disease at birth
>£10,000 in parking fines
>Car impounded 27 times
>£300,000 fine for throwing darts at the youth team
>Won £25,000 in a casino, gave £1,000 to a tramp outside
>Rescued a child from bullying
>Threw tomatoes at some Serie A manager
>Threw water balloons at Serie A meeting
>Started a fight with 4 bouncers, after breaking the no touching rule at a strip club
>Thinks milk with tea is strange
>Bibotelli saga
>Had a £120,000 Audi R8 imported and wrote it off within a week
>Had his friends approach girls in clubs and say "Balotelli will see you now."
>Sent to John Lewis by his mother to buy essentials for the house, like an ironing board
>Came back with a giant trampoline and a Vespa and Scalectrix
>Started fights with Kompany, Boateng and Tevez at training
>Was frequently seen at the AC Milan superstore while playing for inter
>Went on TV in an AC shirt with his name on while at inter
>U21s game for Italy, kicks a swedish player while he's down and proceeds to just sit on the pitch ignoring the opposition and the referee for about a minute.
>Is then offended when he gets sent off and protests about it
>He winked at Ferdinand at the semi final of the FA cup and celebrate in front of the Man Utd fans.
>After the FA cup final, on live TV, says "This season I have been s***. Can I say that?"
>Was stopped by police driving round Hulme (a real craphole) in his maserati with £25,000 cash on the passenger seat. When asked why he said "because I'm rich"
>Had to go off at half time in a game in Ukraine due to an allergy to the pitch
>Had to be physically hauled away by Zanetti for refusing to let Samuel Eto'o take a penalty that he had won
>Once broke up with a girlfriend via text while she was presenting a live television show
>Slept with a model while his girlfriend was asleep downstairs
>*** mental chicken hat
>When he won the European Golden Boy trophy, said he had never heard of Jack Wilshere
>Said he would find out who he was so he could remind Wilshere he came second
>Drove his car into a women's prison so he could have a look around
>Swore on live TV after the FA cup final
>Attempted a roulette back heel shot against LA Galaxy and missed
>Connections with the Naples Mafia, he even testified in court at a Mafia trial
>Brought to bench during International friendly.
>Set house on fire using fireworks
>Said only Messi is "a little stronger" than him, and he is better than all other players
>"Why always me?" shirt, made for him by City kitman Chappy
>Drove around Manchester high fiving city fans from his car the day after >1-6
>Became the face of a firework safety campaign days after setting his house on fire
>Hands £20 notes out to strangers when in Manchester
>Chanted Rooney! Rooney! at the prostitute who claimed to have slept with Wayne
Haha you should create a website called balotelliscv.com and put all that up. It could become quite popular!
If that isn't the CV of a legend I don't know what is!
He's allergic to...grass....
He believes Paul Gascoigne was the second coming of the goddess Shiva.
So nobody has posted that the Santa story was bullshit then?
I guess the fan club don't want to detract from the CV of the "legend".
Amazing how that rumour went out in the same week that he was in another fight in training - his PR team do a serious job for him.
I guess the fan club don't want to detract from the CV of the "legend".
Amazing how that rumour went out in the same week that he was in another fight in training - his PR team do a serious job for him.
I quite like him. Hes a nutter
Amusing, yes
Legendary? That he's called that at all is a sign of the bastardisation of that term.
Legendary? That he's called that at all is a sign of the bastardisation of that term.
i kinda agree with Pouge that sods like him get any attention but c'ommon that funny!
Ian McGarry just called Mario a genius on BBC5 but John Barnes, Steve Claridge and Robbie Savage all shouted him down, was quite funny.
Everytime this thread is bumped, I expect to see that he's done something ridiculous. It sort of builds a certain degree of expectation after a while, just like the Hargreaves-thread.
See, that's too much. I like Balotelli, he's mildly entertaining, but the same thing happened when Jose Mourinho came: Sky and the written press ate it up, "breath of fresh air" and all the rest of it, but essentially it's all a carefully constructred narrative people are falling for. I don't know when it became essential to have "characters" in football, but I'd guess it was around the time the Premier League and the media realized 90 minutes of football isn't enough to keep people watching and spending money on this football lark.
And comparisons with Cantona are strange. Did Eric set houses on fire and throw money from convertibles? No, he was essentially a quiet man off the pitch who spoke louder than anyone else on it. He's known as a great footballer with an artistic side; Balotelli needs to make sure he's rememebered primarily for his football and doesn't become a parody.
I don't like the snide McGarry but him being shouted down by eejits was funny.
Mancini loses patience with Balotelli as Manchester City exit looms
The Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini has personally sanctioned the £340,000 fine and misconduct charge for Mario Balotelli, which the striker is to fight at a Premier League tribunal – pushing him closer to an exit from the club.
Mancini has been isolated for months in his desire to persist with the player but is behind his club in the unusual course of disciplinary action which places Balotelli in a state of open conflict with the Premier League champions.
Balotelli will appear before an independent two-man league panel in London on Wednesday to challenge a fine of two weeks' wages – the maximum a club may impose on a misconduct charge – which he was hit with at the end of last season because of his general disciplinary record. The club took the unusual step because they felt that his on-field indiscipline was causing him to miss far too many games, rather than because of any of his off-field antics.
It is rare for a club to issue a fine for an ongoing pattern of yellow and red cards, rather than a specific punishable act. It is thought – though unconfirmed – that the club's Abu Dhabian owners may have been instrumental in pushing for the punishment because of their growing frustration with the disrepute Balotelli was bringing upon the club and the problems Mancini was encountering in getting the message through to him.
Balotelli missed eight Premier League matches through suspension last season, just over 21 per cent of those games. In all competitions, he missed 11 of 54 – 20.37 per cent. The club's concern about his indiscipline reached its peak in last April's defeat at Arsenal, where he was dismissed for two bookable tackles after the referee missed his studs-up tackle on Alex Song, which Mancini admitted he should have been punished for.
Balotelli's indignation about the fine has led him to go through a similar disciplinary process to the one Carlos Tevez embarked upon last season. The 22-year-old appealed against the fine before a two-man independent executive City board, who rejected his protest. Balotelli subsequently took the decision three weeks ago to take the matter to a Premier League tribunal.
Tevez ultimately withdrew his threat to take his own gross misconduct charge – imposed for his refusal to play as a substitute in a Champions League tie at Bayern Munich – to the league. That was after the Professional Footballers' Association prevented City from imposing a four-week fine on the Argentine and backed the striker's argument that he had not refused to play in the game. The PFA did not respond yesterday to inquiries on whether it was supporting Balotelli in his own case against City.
Balotelli's agent Mino Raiola, who told The Independent two months ago that the player wanted to fight to preserve his City career despite his limited starts for the club this season, yesterday said: "I don't have any comments to make. You must call City. Mario is happy in Manchester. I don't have any comments to make. Call City."
Balotelli was left out of the City squad for Saturday's trip to Newcastle and Mancini's staff feel he is not fully fit. Though he trained yesterday, he is by no means guaranteed to make the squad for next Saturday's home fixture with Reading.
City will allow a Northumbria Police investigation into the alleged use of racist language in an altercation between Aleksandar Kolarov and supporters at Newcastle on Saturday to proceed before deciding on any course of action.
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/s...anchester-city-exit-looms-16251551.html?r=RSS
The Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini has personally sanctioned the £340,000 fine and misconduct charge for Mario Balotelli, which the striker is to fight at a Premier League tribunal – pushing him closer to an exit from the club.
Mancini has been isolated for months in his desire to persist with the player but is behind his club in the unusual course of disciplinary action which places Balotelli in a state of open conflict with the Premier League champions.
Balotelli will appear before an independent two-man league panel in London on Wednesday to challenge a fine of two weeks' wages – the maximum a club may impose on a misconduct charge – which he was hit with at the end of last season because of his general disciplinary record. The club took the unusual step because they felt that his on-field indiscipline was causing him to miss far too many games, rather than because of any of his off-field antics.
It is rare for a club to issue a fine for an ongoing pattern of yellow and red cards, rather than a specific punishable act. It is thought – though unconfirmed – that the club's Abu Dhabian owners may have been instrumental in pushing for the punishment because of their growing frustration with the disrepute Balotelli was bringing upon the club and the problems Mancini was encountering in getting the message through to him.
Balotelli missed eight Premier League matches through suspension last season, just over 21 per cent of those games. In all competitions, he missed 11 of 54 – 20.37 per cent. The club's concern about his indiscipline reached its peak in last April's defeat at Arsenal, where he was dismissed for two bookable tackles after the referee missed his studs-up tackle on Alex Song, which Mancini admitted he should have been punished for.
Balotelli's indignation about the fine has led him to go through a similar disciplinary process to the one Carlos Tevez embarked upon last season. The 22-year-old appealed against the fine before a two-man independent executive City board, who rejected his protest. Balotelli subsequently took the decision three weeks ago to take the matter to a Premier League tribunal.
Tevez ultimately withdrew his threat to take his own gross misconduct charge – imposed for his refusal to play as a substitute in a Champions League tie at Bayern Munich – to the league. That was after the Professional Footballers' Association prevented City from imposing a four-week fine on the Argentine and backed the striker's argument that he had not refused to play in the game. The PFA did not respond yesterday to inquiries on whether it was supporting Balotelli in his own case against City.
Balotelli's agent Mino Raiola, who told The Independent two months ago that the player wanted to fight to preserve his City career despite his limited starts for the club this season, yesterday said: "I don't have any comments to make. You must call City. Mario is happy in Manchester. I don't have any comments to make. Call City."
Balotelli was left out of the City squad for Saturday's trip to Newcastle and Mancini's staff feel he is not fully fit. Though he trained yesterday, he is by no means guaranteed to make the squad for next Saturday's home fixture with Reading.
City will allow a Northumbria Police investigation into the alleged use of racist language in an altercation between Aleksandar Kolarov and supporters at Newcastle on Saturday to proceed before deciding on any course of action.
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/s...anchester-city-exit-looms-16251551.html?r=RSS
..Balotelli's CV:
>Survived a usually fatal disease at birth
>£10,000 in parking fines
>Car impounded 27 times
>£300,000 fine for throwing darts at the youth team
>Won £25,000 in a casino, gave £1,000 to a tramp outside
>Rescued a child from bullying
>Threw tomatoes at some Serie A manager
>Threw water balloons at Serie A meeting
>Started a fight with 4 bouncers, after breaking the no touching rule at a strip club
>Thinks milk with tea is strange
>Bibotelli saga
>Had a £120,000 Audi R8 imported and wrote it off within a week
>Had his friends approach girls in clubs and say "Balotelli will see you now."
>Sent to John Lewis by his mother to buy essentials for the house, like an ironing board
>Came back with a giant trampoline and a Vespa and Scalectrix
>Started fights with Kompany, Boateng and Tevez at training
>Was frequently seen at the AC Milan superstore while playing for inter
>Went on TV in an AC shirt with his name on while at inter
>U21s game for Italy, kicks a swedish player while he's down and proceeds to just sit on the pitch ignoring the opposition and the referee for about a minute.
>Is then offended when he gets sent off and protests about it
>He winked at Ferdinand at the semi final of the FA cup and celebrate in front of the Man Utd fans.
>After the FA cup final, on live TV, says "This season I have been s***. Can I say that?"
>Was stopped by police driving round Hulme (a real craphole) in his maserati with £25,000 cash on the passenger seat. When asked why he said "because I'm rich"
>Had to go off at half time in a game in Ukraine due to an allergy to the pitch
>Had to be physically hauled away by Zanetti for refusing to let Samuel Eto'o take a penalty that he had won
>Once broke up with a girlfriend via text while she was presenting a live television show
>Slept with a model while his girlfriend was asleep downstairs
>*** mental chicken hat
>When he won the European Golden Boy trophy, said he had never heard of Jack Wilshere
>Said he would find out who he was so he could remind Wilshere he came second
>Drove his car into a women's prison so he could have a look around
>Swore on live TV after the FA cup final
>Attempted a roulette back heel shot against LA Galaxy and missed
>Connections with the Naples Mafia, he even testified in court at a Mafia trial
>Brought to bench during International friendly.
>Set house on fire using fireworks
>Said only Messi is "a little stronger" than him, and he is better than all other players
>"Why always me?" shirt, made for him by City kitman Chappy
>Drove around Manchester high fiving city fans from his car the day after >1-6
>Became the face of a firework safety campaign days after setting his house on fire
>Hands £20 notes out to strangers when in Manchester
>Chanted Rooney! Rooney! at the prostitute who claimed to have slept with Wayne
City will have to climb down. Nobody will match his wages so they are stuck with him.
This is what happens when you set your club up to be a cash-cow to suit the ever increasing piss-taking needs of mercenaries
He's on 170k/week 
Have to say , but i feel he as burnt his bridges with the club and fans.