Blue Moon Over Miami
Active Member
Just a thought.
Isn't Juventus the club whose fans yelled out racist comments at Balotelli? I mean I know many fans of various Italian teams did so as well (including Inter!), but Juve's were by far the worst of the lot, if I remember correctly. I've already read comments on various websites from Juve supporters saying they're ready to give a nice "welcome" to Balotelli when City travels to Turin...
With that said, two things come up.
One would be to incorporate some kind of gesture of support backing our Mario. A banner, signs, whatever. I know that there's been talk of this already, of giving Balo our full support to make sure he feels wanted and loved at Eastlands, but a specific gesture of support for this game, I think, would give it special meaning considering the opponent...
Two, please someone make sure that Balotelli gets the message that the inflatable bananas are a City tradition and have nothing to do with any player (except Imre Banana of course!) as bananas and monkey chanting are par for course for racist continental fans trying to take the piss out of black players...call me an alarmist but ffs just make sure he gets the memo!
Isn't Juventus the club whose fans yelled out racist comments at Balotelli? I mean I know many fans of various Italian teams did so as well (including Inter!), but Juve's were by far the worst of the lot, if I remember correctly. I've already read comments on various websites from Juve supporters saying they're ready to give a nice "welcome" to Balotelli when City travels to Turin...
With that said, two things come up.
One would be to incorporate some kind of gesture of support backing our Mario. A banner, signs, whatever. I know that there's been talk of this already, of giving Balo our full support to make sure he feels wanted and loved at Eastlands, but a specific gesture of support for this game, I think, would give it special meaning considering the opponent...
Two, please someone make sure that Balotelli gets the message that the inflatable bananas are a City tradition and have nothing to do with any player (except Imre Banana of course!) as bananas and monkey chanting are par for course for racist continental fans trying to take the piss out of black players...call me an alarmist but ffs just make sure he gets the memo!