Mario Balotelli [On the Road to Ballon d'or)

[baitman]

due to mario being ****ing useless his thread has been hijacked

[fidget]

due to mario being ****ing useless his thread has been hijacked

He's a useless foreign sponger

[~LFCHistory~]

The Daily Mail - owned by "french" non UK tax paying billionaire and good friend of cameron - Harold Jonathan Esmond Vere Harmsworth and constantly banging on about spongers and foreigners.

Yep, the demonization of anyone not in work by the Tories and their mates in the media is IMO little more than the super rich diverting attention away from the real issue which is the super rich and the big corporations not wanting to pay tax and instead blaming the weak and vulnerable on the UK's financial state. Want to get the deficit down ? Properly tax the ruling top 1% and especially the mega corporations.

Clearly the propaganda campaign against the poor in the media has worked a treat judging by some of the posts in this thread. Benefits Street, Skint, Benefits Britain Life on The Dole, Too Fat to Work etc. etc. - All establishment media propaganda bollocks.

And before anyone cites example of people exploiting the system, well yes there are but those are carefully chosen examples by the media to stereotype and continue the demonization campaign. It's possible IMO to demonize literally any group of people whether it be race, religion, sexuality if you use isolated examples.

Rant over.

[ashey]

Yep, the demonization of anyone not in work by the Tories and their mates in the media is IMO little more than the super rich diverting attention away from the real issue which is the super rich and the big corporations not wanting to pay tax and instead blaming the weak and vulnerable on the UK's financial state. Want to get the deficit down ? Properly tax the ruling top 1% and especially the mega corporations.

Clearly the propaganda campaign against the poor in the media has worked a treat judging by some of the posts in this thread. Benefits Street, Skint, Benefits Britain Life on The Dole, Too Fat to Work etc. etc. - All establishment media propaganda bollocks.

And before anyone cites example of people exploiting the system, well yes there are but those are carefully chosen examples by the media to stereotype and continue the demonization campaign. It's possible IMO to demonize literally any group of people whether it be race, religion, sexuality if you use isolated examples.

Rant over.

[Paul12]

So, do we like Mario or not?

[G]

He's a bellend

[kev776]

A worse buy than Borini or Carroll.

[Bender]

striker Mario Balotelli, who last featured for Liverpool as an unused substitute against Manchester United on 22 March, will also be assessed ahead of the trip to Wembley.

"He wasn't quite fit enough for Newcastle," said Rodgers of the 24-year-old Italian. "He's had on and off sickness issues. Hopefully he'll train in the middle of the week."

[Paddy]

What did people make of Game of Thrones?

[Fierce]

Yep, the demonization of anyone not in work by the Tories and their mates in the media is IMO little more than the super rich diverting attention away from the real issue which is the super rich and the big corporations not wanting to pay tax and instead blaming the weak and vulnerable on the UK's financial state. Want to get the deficit down ? Properly tax the ruling top 1% and especially the mega corporations.

Clearly the propaganda campaign against the poor in the media has worked a treat judging by some of the posts in this thread. Benefits Street, Skint, Benefits Britain Life on The Dole, Too Fat to Work etc. etc. - All establishment media propaganda bollocks.

And before anyone cites example of people exploiting the system, well yes there are but those are carefully chosen examples by the media to stereotype and continue the demonization campaign. It's possible IMO to demonize literally any group of people whether it be race, religion, sexuality if you use isolated examples.

Rant over.

Tremendous post

[Chilts33]

Why should we blame people for exploiting the system? Surely we should be looking at the people who put the system in place and designed it to be exploited.
I work hard and pay silly amounts of tax each year, it's something that I can live with as it allows me to live in & enjoy our beautiful country!

[Paul12]

A worse buy than ... Carroll.

Can this be true? If we get £5m for him, he'll have cost us £11m plus wages and given us virtually nothing. We dropped nearly double that on Carroll; did he give us c£10m of value? I didn't think so, and he was the reason we bought Downing.

[Kenneth]

Anyone who judges systems based on isolated incidents is mad as a fish and reads too much daily mail.

They may be far less common than is made out, but that doesn't make them isolated incidents.

[ronanm]

Linked with Sampdoria today on the BBC Gossip page - fingers crossed

Serie A side Sampdoria want to bring Liverpool striker Mario Balotelli, 24, back to Italy according to their president. (Gazzetta - in Italian)

[G]

United and Arsenal fans are using the online vote to try get him voted our player of the year. Markovic as young player of the year, to highlight our money wastage on them. What a laugh they are.