Oh Please Mancio! If it is true both Balotelli and Lescott intentionally lashed out (and that is debatable) one can surely see why Lescott's is more acceptable. He was in the middle of a colission and protected himself forcefully. Or at least, that is what I saw. As for Balotelli, he simply acted like a brat trying to sneak in a boot while a helpless player was already down.Mancio said:m italian. i live in italy. i'm not nationalist and i'm not proud of the way italy (and many intalians) behave.
i think berlusconi has just been the last one of a series of dirty cheatings politicians that unfortunally italian people just deverse.
football too in italy is dirty , full of scandals and cheating.
and the media are the worst you can hope to have in a country , their first reason of life being to lik powers arse.
that said i have to say i was thinking England was a sort of paradise compared to italy , but i was quite wrong. at least regard football.
when you see as they have charged a doubbious balotelli's case and done nothing of a blatant voluntary lescott elbowing you have to think something is really rotten in england too. I stopped envying.
Now, I am not saying either was intentional, or even if they both were, I am not saying the intention was to hurt the opponent. But clearly, if both were intentional, Balo's is worse for attacking a guy who was already down. Lescott at least attacked someone charging at him. That to me is more acceptable.
On a personal note (and yes this is with no knowledge of what actually transpired), both looked intentional to me. But I am fine with Lescott's intentions and not with Balotelli's!