Mario Balotelli [General]

[Exiled_red]

Apparently a bull**** story and a couple of the others have been denied too. (Confronting the school bully, Shopping at John Lewis...). There's a blog on teamtalk about him.

Essential jist is that he's entered the Tyson Zone, where you could write almost anything about him and you'd struggle to dismiss it out of hand.

[MrsB]

Football quiz: Mario Balotelli – rumour or fiction?

[Philip FC Kopenhagen]

Football quiz: Mario Balotelli – rumour or fiction?

9 out of 10. I answered that he took Babel to bowling or something like that.

[Shaggy]

That church is a two minute walk from here

Balotelli surprises Christmas Eve drinkers with £1,000 free bar

Published 08:36 27/12/11 By MirrorFootball (1) Recommend (2)

Mario Balotelli had a typically quiet Christmas Eve - putting £1,000 behind the bar at an unfashionable Manchester pub.

The City striker, held goalless in yesterday's 0-0 draw at West Brom, delighted drinkers at the Tudor pub in Peel Hall with his generous gesture and barely dented the tab himself as he stayed on soft drinks all night.

He then attended midnight mass at St John's church in Chorlton, where manager Roberto Mancini was among the attendees a year earlier.

[lickedlollipop]

i suppose that might be bull**** again

[Shaggy]

It's true, there's pics on City forums.

[sean_lfc]

Link!

[Liverpel]

I heard he was dressed as Santa at midnight mass.


I might have made that up though.

[Boogs]

Could there be more to him not playing today?
Daily fail

[Gray]

"Ballotelli will see you now..."

Balotelli (Legend)

Survived a usually fatal disease at birth
? £10,000 in parking fines.
? Car has been 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 the casino.
? Threw tomatoes at a Serie A manager.
? Threw Water Balloons at a Serie A disciplinary hearing.
? Started a fight with 4 bouncers after breaking the “no touching” rule at a strip club.
? The “bib” saga.
? Had a £120,000 Audi imported, wrote it off within a week.
? Had his friend approach girls in a nightclub and say “Balotelli will see you now”
? Sent to the shops by his mother to buy essentials for the house, came back with a giant trampoline and a Vespa and a Scalectrix.

? Has started fights at training with Kompany, Boateng, Tevez and Richards.
? Was frequently seen at the AC Milan superstore while playing for Inter Milan.
? Went on TV wearing an AC Milan shirt with his name on the back while playing for Inter.
? Whilst playing for Italy under 21’s, he is fouled, he sits on the pitch for 3-4 minutes ignoring the opposition, his team mates and the referee.

? He is then offended when he gets sent off and protests about it.
? Winks at Ferdinand after FA cup semi final and celebrates in front of the United fans.
? After the cup final on live TV, he says “ I have been sh*t this season, am I allowed say sh*t on TV?
? Was stopped by police going around his hometown of Hulme with £ 25,000 cash in the passenger seat. When asked why he replied “ because I’m rich”

? Had to be physically hauled away by Zanetti for refusing to let Samuel Eto’o take a penalty that he had earned.
? Once broke up with a girlfriend via text whilst she was presenting a live show.
? Slept with an Italian model while his girlfriend was downstairs.
? Drove his car into a women’s prison because he wanted to “look around”
? Has connections with the Italian mafia, he has testified in court at a Mafia trial.
? Brought his Ipad on to the bench for Italy’s international against the Faroe Islands because he wanted to play games on it.

? Was seen in a Manchester shopping centre “hi-fiving” city fans the day after City had beaten United 6-1.
? Became the face of a firework safety campaign a few days after setting his house on fire from letting off fireworks indoors.

? Hands £50 notes to strangers when out shopping in Manchester.
? Chanted “Rooney, Rooney” at the prostitute who claimed to have slept with Wayne Rooney.
? Italy had just brought out a brand new home kit, at the start of the second half for their first match wearing the new kit, Balotelli came out in the old kit, claiming he didn’t like the new one. Nobody else had changed.

? Turned the landscaped back garden of his house into a Quad bike track.

[tsb]

Italy had just brought out a brand new home kit, at the start of the second half for their first match wearing the new kit, Balotelli came out in the old kit, claiming he didn’t like the new one. Nobody else had changed.

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[wavydavy]

Isn't the Balotelli "legend" an internet creation and that practically none of it is true?

[Gray]

Isn't the Balotelli "legend" an internet creation and that practically none of it is true?

Still made me chuckle, and its definitely plausible.

[Neil Young]

Chanted “Rooney, Rooney” at the prostitute who claimed to have slept with Wayne Rooney.

Was she a prostitute? The media have been known to label women who have casual sex with famous strangers as prostitutes because it makes the story "better". Maybe in this case she was, I don't know, but I'm pretty wary of stuff like this. (If she was it doesn't make her a terrible person either, in my book, but at least the label would be factually correct, even if the moralistic subtext is still load a of judgemental crap).

Of course the woman's reputation is completely unimportant. She must quite like sex so that makes her a slapper so obviously that makes her a prostitute. Papers don't sell themselves.