Mario Balotelli Appreciation Thread

Crazy Horse 6

astonaidan wrote: »

What of him Messi is lucky to be surrounded by the players he has, He flops everytime he plays for Argentina proving this, People seem to completly miss the fact hes a diver for some reason, Cristiano is the best in the world at the moment had one bad game against barca and suddenly he flops at the big stage. In 3 years time imo itll be Ronaldo, Balotelli & Neymar!
Imo the best 3 now are Cristiano, Zlatan & Xavi but hey thats just me I cant help but not follow the sheep

Handsome Bob

I heard he gave £1,000 to a homeless bloke after coming out of a nightclub. Fair ****ing play to him.

GavRedKing

Giggsy11 wrote: »

BS. He was like this even at Inter and many didn't like him then also. Nothing to do with City.

He winds people up, we seen that with Totti and Ferdinand recently, cant blame Balotelli if they cant handle it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0Zsd38GssA

Also,



Legend.

EdenHazard

what a hero, love that, he's like a normal(well weirdo) lad whose just become rich, football has enough of the serious roy keane types. i love people like balotelli and cassano

ASOT

astonaidan wrote: »

What of him Messi is lucky to be surrounded by the players he has, He flops everytime he plays for Argentina proving this, People seem to completly miss the fact hes a diver for some reason, Cristiano is the best in the world at the moment had one bad game against barca and suddenly he flops at the big stage. In 3 years time imo itll be Ronaldo, Balotelli & Neymar!
Imo the best 3 now are Cristiano, Zlatan & Xavi but hey thats just me I cant help but not follow the sheep

I was considering your point, but then i seen this.

Your whole post is now invalid cheers.

DOC09UNAM

ASOT wrote: »

astonaidan wrote: »

What of him Messi is lucky to be surrounded by the players he has, He flops everytime he plays for Argentina proving this, People seem to completly miss the fact hes a diver for some reason, Cristiano is the best in the world at the moment had one bad game against barca and suddenly he flops at the big stage. In 3 years time imo itll be Ronaldo, Balotelli & Neymar!
Imo the best 3 now are Cristiano, Zlatan & Xavi but hey thats just me I cant help but not follow the sheep

I was considering your point, but then i seen this.

Your whole post is now invalid cheers.

Zlatan is an amazing footballer.

kfallon

DOC09UNAM wrote: »

Zlatan is an amazing footballer.

He can do amazing things at times but I don't see him as being in the same league as Messi.

Giggsy11

gavredking wrote: »

He winds people up, we seen that with Totti and Ferdinand recently, cant blame Balotelli if they cant handle it.

Legend.

Yeah throwing your team jersey in front of packed stadium and sporting your rivals jersey is what? Winding up your own fans? Yeah Legend :rolleyes:

ASOT

DOC09UNAM wrote: »

Zlatan is an amazing footballer.

Exactly as the lad their said, i just dont think hes consistent enough. But thats just my opinion sure. I came across as a bit of a cun7 in the last post!!

ironbluedun

Giggsy11 wrote: »

Yeah throwing your team jersey in front of packed stadium and sporting your rivals jersey is what? Winding up your own fans? Yeah Legend :rolleyes:

oh some people have very short memories indeed........i once remember a 'legend' once jumping into the crowd to assault a fan in a match against crystal palace.......now poor mario never stooped that low.

richierichballs

ironbluedun wrote: »

oh some people have very short memories indeed........i once remember a 'legend' once jumping into the crowd to assault a fan in a match against crystal palace.......now poor mario never stooped that low.

hahahahah United fans eh? :rolleyes:

richierichballs

ironbluedun

richierichballs wrote: »

hahahahah United fans eh? :rolleyes:

ah no........just a case of the auld 'selective' memory syndrome........a common ailment among that breed apparently.........

ASOT

Giggsy11

ironbluedun wrote: »

oh some people have very short memories indeed........i once remember a 'legend' once jumping into the crowd to assault a fan in a match against crystal palace.......now poor mario never stooped that low.

Yeah both are comparable. :rolleyes:

So United fans shouldn't tell anything against Balo as we had Cantona, Giggs :rolleyes:

He always was a attention seeking lunatic, even at Inter. This has nothing to do with him being at City. Talk about being defensive and diverting topic.

Giggsy11

richierichballs wrote: »

hahahahah United fans eh? :rolleyes:

richierichballs

Giggsy11 wrote: »

Yeah both are comparable. :rolleyes:

So United fans shouldn't tell anything against Balo as we had Cantona, Giggs :rolleyes:

He always was a attention seeking lunatic, even at Inter. This has nothing to do with him being at City. Talk about being defensive and diverting topic.

How is handing out Money attention seeking? He's tryna help people....

United fans...... :rolleyes:

Giggsy11

richierichballs wrote: »

How is handing out Money attention seeking? He's tryna help people....

United fans...... :rolleyes:

Care to read what I posted? I didn't talk about Santa incident, I have said twice that it was about other stuffs that OP mentioned.

Yeah United fans.

DOC09UNAM

richierichballs wrote: »

Giggsy11 wrote: »

Yeah both are comparable. :rolleyes:

So United fans shouldn't tell anything against Balo as we had Cantona, Giggs :rolleyes:

He always was a attention seeking lunatic, even at Inter. This has nothing to do with him being at City. Talk about being defensive and diverting topic.

How is handing out Money attention seeking? He's tryna help people....

United fans...... :rolleyes:

Jesus christ, it's nothing to do with him being a united fan.

Professional Griefer

Only heard now, that horrid day when they hammered us. After the game he spent his time driving around the city high-5ing City fans.

You just have to love him.

Patsy fyre

Ix Deadmau5 wrote: »

Only heard now, that horrid day when they hammered us. After the game he spent his time driving around the city high-5ing City fans.

You just have to love him.

I'm just surprised they gave him a licence!

Sanity_Saviour

Giggsy11 wrote: »

BS. He was like this even at Inter and many didn't like him then also. Nothing to do with City.

hungoverbunny wrote: »

List of Balotellis's escapades

I honestly can't see how anyone cannot love this guy after looking at his adventures, he's made City likeable on his own, I mean ,LOOK AT THE GUY!!!
Either you're one of them aul lads mumbling "kids these days" to himself or else you're just a Manchester parking attendant
Oh, and I can't Imogen why you don't like him :D:D

Guy:Incognito

hungoverbunny wrote: »

£300,000 fine for throwing darts at the youth team

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

Started fights with Kompany, Boateng and Tevez at training

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.

Imagine the length of a thread if the above were the actions of Joey Barton.

hungoverbunny wrote: »

£10,000 in parking fines
Car impounded 27 times

That just sounds like he thinks hes better than other people and can park as he sees fit.


Again, theres plenty of other players would be called **** for having the same attitude.

James Forde

I love the guy

richierichballs

Manchester City striker Mario Balotelli has school in Sudan named after him

Manchester City striker Mario Balotelli has had a school in Sudan named after him after financing its construction.

The Italian befriend a former child soldier of the country’s civil war and donated money to help him build a secondary school in the South Sudanese village of Cuey Machar which will now have a ‘Mario Balotelli wing’ in his honour.

Kon Kelei, now aged 29, was kidnapped when just four years old by rebels of the Sudan's People Liberation Army and forced to fight, but he later escaped the conflict and became a refugee in Holland.

After graduating in law during his time in the Netherlands, he returned to South Sudan following their declaration of independence and a film documenting his life was produced, entitled 'The Silent Army'.

Balotelli was so moved after watching the film that he contacted Kelei offering to help finance a project to build a secondary school.

“Kon told me that he was forced by the rebels to use a rifle that was bigger and heavier than he was. He wasn’t even able to hold it properly,” he said.

“But he managed to run away and save himself. He could have built a new life but he wanted to help his country, so I have helped him.”

South Sudan declared their independence in July, but in recent weeks there has been fighting along the border with Sudan and there are fears of another full-scale conflict.

http://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/2896/premier-league/2011/12/11/2798131/manchester-city-striker-mario-balotelli-has-school-in-sudan

People in here a quick to criticize some of the bad things he has done (despite never causing any harm to anyone,)
Why not talk about the nice things he has done for people?

Guy:Incognito

richierichballs wrote: »

http://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/2896/premier-league/2011/12/11/2798131/manchester-city-striker-mario-balotelli-has-school-in-sudan

People in here a quick to criticize some of the bad things he has done (despite never causing any harm to anyone,)
Why not talk about the nice things he has done for people?

All top footballers do a lot for charities. You just dotn hear about 99% of them because its done in secret.

Obviously some want a high profile figure to head their public campaigns (roy keane with guidedogs etc)

Samich

What an absolute hero

Pro. F

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

Imagine the length of a thread if the above were the actions of Joey Barton.




That just sounds like he thinks hes better than other people and can park as he sees fit.


Again, theres plenty of other players would be called **** for having the same attitude.

The thing is, the annoying things he has done are interspersed with funny and nice things. That's what makes him so likeable.

Also as an opposition fan I can really enjoy his antics because I know that I will either be entertained when he does something good on the pitch, or City will be harmed when he does something bad.

Ps. Cantona kicking that Crystal Palace fan made him even more of a legend. The fan was a BNP member who had just been to a rally and was shouting abuse and threats iirc.

ASOT

richierichballs

Xavi6

Pro. F

richierichballs wrote: »

It's like predator boots for heading the ball.

Seaneh

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

All top footballers do a lot for charities. You just dotn hear about 99% of them because its done in secret.

Obviously some want a high profile figure to head their public campaigns (roy keane with guidedogs etc)

Give it a ****ing rest ffs.

jebidiah

hungoverbunny wrote: »

Here's a list of mr balotellis recent adventures

Turned the landscaped back garden of his rented mansion in to a quad bike race track

Look. I think people are taking the word legend a bit literally.

The fella is obviously a bit of a clown and a lunatic. He obviously has bags of footballing talent too.

His life is like that of an old school rock star. And while i don't agree with all his antics.

I think he is a bleedin legend for doing it his way.

Long may it continue!

Vudgie

A bit of madness often goes hand in hand with above normal talent I think this is definitely true in his case.

He has the attributes to be a really top player if he keeps it together however without the madness and the freedom to be himself he may not be half the player...catch 22.

Guy:Incognito

Seaneh wrote: »

Give it a ****ing rest ffs.

What ?Am I upsetting your sensative disposition? god love you.

I was balancing up a post that made it out like Balotelli was a special case of some sort that gives to charity. THey all do.

TBH most probably do it for tax reasons (shock horror possibly even saint Mario)

richierichballs

I think we can all agree, he's had a better season then Rooney.

The_Kew_Tour

Really have respect for Balotelli, especially if all these stories about him with the guy been bullied and giving out money is true. Then massive thumbs up to him.

However I wonder would the love be shared if he played for the red half;).

EdenHazard

hes just a weird weird lad but he pulls it off coz hes mega rich

Shanotheslayer

astonaidan wrote: »

Imo the best 3 now are Cristiano, Zlatan & Xavi

Get out...

Professional Griefer

The_Kew_Tour wrote: »

Really have respect for Balotelli, especially if all these stories about him with the guy been bullied and giving out money is true. Then massive thumbs up to him.

However I wonder would the love be shared if he played for the red half;).

Completely forgot about that, legend. Hes a character bless him, not a bad footballer either:pac:

sparrowcar

Balotelli tweet in response to Luis Suarez's 8 match ban..

"The FA are willing to ban someone based on one persons claim, with no video evidence? In that case, the whole ManU squad racially abused me"

Legend

amacachi

Got a link to that?

Giggsy11

sparrowcar wrote: »

Balotelli tweet in response to Luis Suarez's 8 match ban..

"The FA are willing to ban someone based on one persons claim, with no video evidence? In that case, the whole ManU squad racially abused me"

Legend

Twitter rumors makes him a Legend too

Heard it was fake account, not Balotelli's.

Xavi6

Balotelli's not on twitter. He should be, but he isn't now.

GavRedKing

Balotelli on Twitter would be just brillant.

A daily insight into his life and ramblings would be fun to monitor I think.

sparrowcar

amacachi wrote: »

Got a link to that?

Read it on LFC.tv forum under the Luis Suarez ban thread. On phone now so can't link to thread.

It appears it's a fake account anyway

amacachi

sparrowcar wrote: »

Read it on LFC.tv forum under the Luis Suarez ban thread. On phone now so can't link to thread.

It appears it's a fake account anyway

That's what I was getting at, as much as I wished it were true.

sparrowcar

amacachi wrote: »

That's what I was getting at, as much as I wished it were true.

Funny that, I could have sworn you were calling me out on my post :D

richierichballs