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Mikeegrini
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Good idea. Please post the pieces not just the links.
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waspish said:
Manchester City Super Mario! I never miss penalties because I'm in total control of my brain - Balotelli
By David McDonnell | 2 Nov 2012 22:31
Mario Balotelli says the secret of his 100 per cent penalty conversion rate is being in total control of his mind.
The madcap Manchester City star has been accused of lacking brains, given the scrapes in which he frequently finds himself – both on and off the pitch.
But the maverick striker is deadly serious when it comes to the art of taking spot-kicks and psyching out goalies.
The Italian has scored all eight of the penalties he has taken for City so far, and insisted that the key to his success is locked inside his head.
Balotelli said: “It’s just like a game of the mind, between me and the goalkeeper.
“Me, I know how to control my mind. When the keeper moves before me, it means that in this game of the mind he has lost.”
The 22-year-old revealed his penalty strategy in a wide-ranging interview with America's prestigious Time magazine.
In it, he also discusses racism, his distinctive hairstyles, impending fatherhood and his relationship with City manager Roberto Mancini.
On the issue of racism, which has reared its ugly head again in English football recently, Balotelli said those who discriminate because of skin colour are “stupid”.
Balotelli, who has been a victim of racist abuse in his own country, said: “Racist people are few, in the minority. But you can do nothing to change them.
“You can talk, you can do what you want, but you can’t do anything because they are just stupid people.
“When I wasn’t famous, I had a lot of friends, almost all of them were Italian. The racism only started when I started to play football.
“But me, personally, I hope I can help Italy to be a modern country, like England or America.”
Ahead of City's Saturday visit to West Ham, Balotelli also played down his party-loving image.
He revealed he rarely leaves his home now, as he spoke fondly of Mancini:
“This year I don’t go out, so it can rain as much as it wants, because I’m in the house.
“My relationship with Mancini is really important. He’s known me since I was young and he’s like a father to me.
“I used to play with the young children at Inter Milan, so I know him very well and I can tell him anything.
“I have to train hard every training session. And give everything on the pitch.
“You have four or five things that the manager asks you to do, then you have to play like you can play and give everything.”
Balotelli ditched his bleached mohawk-style hairdo when his mother told him that parents in his hometown of Brescia had complained because their children had copied it.
The forward said: “This is the character of my mother. She’s protective. She talks a lot.
“But she’s always right - almost always right.
"Patient. For me, my mother is everything.”
Balotelli’s ex, Italian reality TV star Raffaella Fico, is pregnant with his child and the Eastlands hero – who was adopted – has given great thought to impending fatherhood.
He added: “I think my child will need a mother who knows how to say ‘no’. Maybe because as a small child, I suffered so much.
“And I’ll love him so much, that maybe I won’t be able to say ‘no’ either.”
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Mikeegrini
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Cheers Waspish, I think the above is a rip from the Time magazine article?
Pigeonho
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How many pro Southampton articles have there been of late? Liverpool, Sunderland, Villa, Arsenal, West Brom...
What is it that you want, a constant arse lick of our club? What have we done this season to warrant the positive articles you appear to crave?
What is it that you want, a constant arse lick of our club? What have we done this season to warrant the positive articles you appear to crave?
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i've got one from the pink in 1989
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bored at work said:
Try this one from the ToryGraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...ss-following-defeat-of-Tottenham-Hotspur.html
Mancini's weekend of perfect management! I like that!
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Dave Ewing's Back 'eader said:
Omg. The usual journalistic trolls will drown this out in a barrage of hating though don't you worry.
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Dave Ewing's Back 'eader said:
At the end of a hectic 90 minutes and a trying week there was no doubt as to the boss round the Etihad Campus: it is the bloke in the blue and white scarf.
Everything Mancini did went to plan yesterday. His team selection, his tactical switch, his substitutes: all contributed to a breathless late victory. He even managed to give Maicon a run-out against Gareth Bale without triggering alarm. The last time we had seen the two in opposition, during a Champions League tie when Tottenham eviscerated Inter Milan, the Brazilian was caused such trauma by the flying Welshman that many observers counselled immediate retirement. Yesterday there was no requirement for the services of any local taxi firms: Maicon emerged psychologically unscathed.
Mancini’s afternoon of perfect management began by leaving Mario Balotelli to watch the game from the stands, where the shy Italian sought anonymity by wearing a giant padded coat and what appeared to be a knitted pith helmet. In tricky times, the last thing the manager needed was a further test to his patience. As his side have struggled to find the spark that illuminated last autumn, he knew that the best way to emerge from the doldrums was via the application of simplicity and resolve. Rather than a preening prima donna in his line-up, he needed a team full of Gareth Barrys.
Yet even the best laid plan can start with a stutter. In the first half here, City appeared still mired in the sluggish, heavy approach work that has characterised so much of their play this season. Few could have been surprised when, with 45 minutes gone, they were behind. After leaking two goals from corners against Ajax in midweek, another failure to defend a set-piece allowed Spurs to take the lead. Steve Caulker met a free-kick with an unchallenged header that Joe Hart spooned into the net.
“We have to tighten up [on set-pieces],” City coach David Platt said. It was not a problem with systems, he added, but more simple than that: “We’ve got to get our head on the ball first.”
Pigeonho said:
Read quite a good one on Southampton on the weekend as it happens.
I don't want overly positive articles, just balanced ones. The Telegraph one just before looks a good balanced read. It even contains a few negative comments about our play, but nothing that should bother anyone.
Articles like that are what we should be able to expect.
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Pigeonho said:
The media are only supplying what the people want. And outside of the walls of this forum, the people out there want schadenfreude at Man City's expense.
So if a story about Mario's paintjob, sells more newspapers or generates more internet hits than say a story about Colleen Rooney's handbag, then who do you think they are gonna keep reporting about as frequently as possible? And only when the public get bored of it, will the media will stop.
Many people on here are far too precious and need to be thick skinned. This pro rag media agenda is pure nonsence. The biggest story of last year was Giggs shagging glamour models and his sister in law, and the year before that it was Rooney shagging hookers. People also tend to forget that the person whom all this agenda blame is focused on, SAF, was the victim himself of a five year long media campaign where he was slaughtered by the tabloids from 86 - 91. It was what the public wanted at the time.
Campagnolo said:
Media should be about more than what people want, particularly if what people want is a person or organisation getting unfairly maligned.
I don't see why we need to just accept that, and thankfully on this occasion it seems the club doesn't either.