Scaring Europe to Death
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Whenever his name is mentioned it's only a matter of time before his time wasting tactics are discussed, he really was a master at it.
His best one for me was when a shot went high or wide he would run to the edge of the area and pretend to be bollocking his defence (probably the tourettes kicking in) then stroll back to find the ball and then take an age placing it.
I remember a similar occasion when City had a corner with a few minutes remaining, and Balotelli slipped in the area.
Howard caught the ball, before deliberately kicking the ball out for a throw-in, knowing perfectly well that Balotelli wasn't injured, and wasn't even pretending to be injured.
City should have kept the ball, but we aren't good at that sort of thing.
However, there was a comedy moment the following season, when Balotelli and Minler both scored, and suddenly Howard was sprinting and screaming at the ball boys, whenever the ball went into touch.