Mario Balotelli

KS55 said:
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.
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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
 
KS55 said:
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.
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If its any consolation I discovered booze and women and I was shit at athletics
 
KS55 said:
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.
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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.
 
KS55 said:
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.
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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.;-)
 
GoatersLeftShin said:
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.
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You appear to have made some blatant spelling errors in this one.............. ;-)
 
Its a shame it didn't quite work out with Mario. Infuriating at times but he did step up to the plate in some massive moments for us. He was absolutely brilliant in the F.A Cup semi against the rags and the Final itself. Maybe he would have buckled down under Pep, but I highly doubt it. Still one of my favourite ever City players.
 
BringBackSwales said:
Not heard Mario say a bad word about City, I think he got us as a club
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Just watched the BT coverage of the CL final again a few days back and Mario is another one of those lads who, although they have no obvious connection with the club or the city, they just "get" what the club is. See also Sergio, Dave, Zabba, Horlock, Morriston, Goater among quite a few others. Can't really include Vinnie as his missus is a blue and he doesn't want his dinner ending up in the dog! All the players that came over to be interviewed seemed very friendly with Mario. Just imagine if he'd had the application of a Dave or a Zabba!
 
Sir peace frog said:
he was fantastic for the club, always in the news,and he seemed like a loveable skamp, always in bother, famous for his wink,fireworks,his t shirt and his amazing assist , oh and his chicken hat, loved the guy .
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He was a top guy by all accounts. Two united fans I work with met him in parrswood arcades and he spent about 2 hours playing on the punch machine with them lol. Think they got in the paper, they said he was getting hammered night before a match aswell but didn't throw him under the bus to the press for that as they both said he was completely sound and had no edge to him at all.
 
Kippax Street 1880 said:
He was a top guy by all accounts. Two united fans I work with met him in parrswood arcades and he spent about 2 hours playing on the punch machine with them lol. Think they got in the paper, they said he was getting hammered night before a match aswell but didn't throw him under the bus to the press for that as they both said he was completely sound and had no edge to him at all.
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I could well imagine that, actually. It'd be hard to see anyone really hating him. Maybe the bescarfed one, I suppose, after that backheel stateside. Oh, and the Carrington bust up, of course!
 
What gets lost because of his madcap antics is just how utterly talented the lad was. He had everything. Gutted he never realised his potential any any of his clubs.

Let’s be honest though City & Mario we were meant for each other, totally loveable.
 
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