Mario Balotelli

[Keeper!]

Another classic Balotelli anecdote:

Mario is a legend, what a character that man is.

 

[bluemooncas]

Thousands of players have the talent but only a few the mentality.
A friend of mine was head and shoulders above his contemporaries in athletics, beating internationals with ease at junior level. He then discovered booze and women. You know the rest.

I was a swimmer, competed for Great Britain as a junior in the 80's, national championships etc,
jacked it all in to drink cider on street corners just to be normal with mates.
mum and dad always said you will regret it, most definitely do now, what could have been

 

[Blue Mist]

Thousands of players have the talent but only a few the mentality.
A friend of mine was head and shoulders above his contemporaries in athletics, beating internationals with ease at junior level. He then discovered booze and women. You know the rest.

If its any consolation I discovered booze and women and I was shit at athletics

 

[BringBackSwales]

Not heard Mario say a bad word about City, I think he got us as a club

 

[Eds]

Thousands of players have the talent but only a few the mentality.
A friend of mine was head and shoulders above his contemporaries in athletics, beating internationals with ease at junior level. He then discovered booze and women. You know the rest.

Eric Nixon’s brother Les was a top centre half but didn’t fancy pro football. Phil Whelan’s (played for Ipswich and Boro amongst others) brother was a top keeper but chose accountancy as a career as he could earn far more money back in the day plus he hated training. I had a chance at pro football but chose Luton away in the league cup and that was my chance gone.

 

[bluemanchester]

Thousands of players have the talent but only a few the mentality.
A friend of mine was head and shoulders above his contemporaries in athletics, beating internationals with ease at junior level. He then discovered booze and women. You know the rest.

I gave up booze for 4 years to concentrate on training to get in our Sunday league team. I will never get those 4 years back.;-)

 

[TonyM]

I gave up booze for 4 years to concentrate on training to get in our Sunday league team. I will never get those 4 years back.;-)

People rarely face up to this horrible side of sport. I hope you got some chance to make up for it. #pity

 

[Blue Mist]

People rarely face up to this horrible side of sport. I hope you got some chance to make up for it. #pity

I don't think people appreciate the sacrifices that are made. They want to try getting up at 9am every Sunday morning for a whole season.

 

[TonyM]

I don't think people appreciate the sacrifices that are made. They want to try getting up at 9am every Sunday morning for a whole season.

And people go on about how bad they have it in Ukraine.

 

[Onholiday(somemightsay)]

Balotelli had everything - height, pace, power, skills and an ice cold ability to finish. By rights, he should've been one of the best in Europe.

However I could've written the same about Adebayor and plenty of other forwards. They have God-given abilities but as soon as they get to a certain level they seem to just stop wanting to be the best. In all honesty, the difference between the likes of Balotelli and Aguero/Tevez wasn't great but mentally the latter had something he'd never had.

My biggest fear with Balotelli when we let him go was Ferguson would take him on and make him into a Cantona type player for them. He had the ability but was just wasn't top class in the end as the rest of his career showed.

You appear to have made some blatant spelling errors in this one.............. ;-)