Mario Balotelli [General]

[dom9]

what so him chucking darts at youth players amused you ?

It wasn't quite as funny as Ashley Cole shooting someone, admitedly.

[Bender]

It wasn't quite as funny as Ashley Cole shooting someone, admitedly.

both pricks

[Exiled_red]

Wow, really pulling out all the stops there are City.

And to think it was 'seemingly to little avail'. Hard to believe.

[little dave hedgehog]

I agree in part but I don't think you have to be a dick head to have character. He amuses me and I enjoy his hijinks but he is an absolute moron really.

this. i love characters, but i hate cunts. why's that so hard to get? same goes for joey barton and diouf.

[RichC]

He's not going to be happy!

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/02082011/58/premier-league-balotelli-hit-team-mates-kipper-prank.html

Mario Balotelli has been done up like a kipper by his Manchester City team-mates after they left rotting fish in the back of his car while the team went off on a pre-season tour.

The controversial Italian striker has wound up just about everyone in Manchester with his antics ever since arriving at the club last summer, which have included throwing darts at youth team players (because he was "bored"), racking up £10,000 of parking fines, inciting manager Roberto Mancini to throw a suitcase at him, and winding up Yaya Toure on the training ground

Newspaper reports that his fellow City stars got their own back by putting a sports bag full of kippers behind his car's passenger seat just before they all headed off to the US for a two-week training tour.

The 20-year-old returned to his car after returning to England - and was almost knocked out by the overpowering stench when he opened the door of his £150,000 Maserati.

"Mario had his head in his hands," the paper's source said. "The smell early made him sick. It was revolting.

"There were flies in the car and the leather seats in the back had rotting fish all over them."

The fishy reek is apparently so bad that the car is expected to be a write-off - not that the superstar will struggle to buy a replacement on his £100,000-a-week wages.

The prank could yet backfire on Balotelli's team-mates, however: the Italian is apparently determined to get his own back.

"He has absolutely no idea who is responsible as he has wound up so many of his team-mates over the past year," the source continued.

"It won't put an end to the pranks, though. He's already formulating plans for revenge."

[anfieldanfield]

I think he's great. Football has become full of expressionless bores, media trained to death. A character comes along, at last, and everyone wants to drive him out.

He's fantastic value.

[Craig_H]

The controversial Italian striker has wound up just about everyone in Manchester with his antics ever since arriving at the club last summer, which have included throwing darts at youth team players (because he was "bored"), racking up £10,000 of parking fines, inciting manager Roberto Mancini to throw a suitcase at him, and winding up Yaya Toure on the training ground.

"He has absolutely no idea who is responsible as he has wound up so many of his team-mates over the past year," the source continued.

"It won't put an end to the pranks, though. He's already formulating plans for revenge."

Knowing Balotelli, his form of revenge could come in the form of holding the culprit's family hostage at gunpoint. If he throws darts at people because he is 'bored' then **** knows where the boundaries would lie, with him.

[Tee]

He must be awesome to have around the place.

[Craig_H]

I'd love to watch footage of him 'winding up Yaya Toure on the training ground'

[Maxiedge]

Throwing darts at youth team players

Everything else is quite funny but that is just lame and arrogant and also not funny, unless you're a cunt.

[anfieldanfield]

I doubt the 'throwing darts' thing was as bad as it sounds.

[Maxiedge]

The only way it wouldn't be is if they were rubber darts but he wouldn't be reprimanded for that as it's just a laugh.

[Norbs]

I think he's great. Football has become full of expressionless bores, media trained to death. A character comes along, at last, and everyone wants to drive him out.

He's not that funny though, I prefer a Bullard type clown idiot over a big head type idiot any day! He's got an awful long way to go before he's in Gazza's league

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[Shaggy]

He got a "slap on the wrist" from the club for the so-called darts incident. If it was remotely serious he'd have received much more than that. Bound to be exaggerated tabloid bollocks.

Clearly the lad has made mistakes but on the whole he's a breath of fresh air. Not remotely comparable to Diouf, not even in the same universe.

[Norbs]

He got a "slap on the wrist" from the club for the so-called darts incident. If it was remotely serious he'd have received much more than that. Bound to be exaggerated tabloid bollocks.

Clearly the lad has made mistakes but on the whole he's a breath of fresh air. Not remotely comparable to Diouf, not even in the same universe.

Diouf's a cunt, Ballotelli's just takes himself a little too seriously