Re: being a " character" is not enough
There's no doubt that Balotelli is improving match by match. His effort and on-field behaviour are a lot better than he showed on his, shall we say interesting, debut.
My old Man can't say a good thing about him, but he does read the Mail so i'll let him off. I also let him off because there's no doubt that Mario does, at times, stamp around like a spoilt brat. And once seen it's hard to forget, or forgive.
On the other side of the coin is the Mario who moves across the pitch effortlessly, has a burning desire to score and loves to upset the opposition defenders with his runs, unpredictability and general ability to piss them off.
One day, Mario Balotelli could turn out to be a deadly centre forward who's worshipped by the Blue Army. I can only hope it happens before he's hounded out of England by a bitter media hell bent on fucking him up.
