Mario Balotelli...

1mcampo1

...is a real nice guy

http://www.footytube.com/news/guardian/mario-balotelli-gives-britain-a-new-buffoon-L8017?ref=hp_zeitgeist


Fair play to him, you rarely see this happening

x in the city

to normal persons that is a large chunk of cash.

to the balotelli's of this world its

meh....

Xavi6

Legend

1mcampo1

x in the city wrote: »

to normal persons that is a large chunk of cash.

to the balotelli's of this world its

meh....

There are so many pro footballers but not many just hand's out wad's of cash...

Professional Griefer

Are we sure he didn't pay him to help dress him?

Or at least open his car?

cson

What a hero.

The story about the cops asking him why he had the £5k always cracks me up too.

GLaDOS

£1000 in the hands of homeless person mightn't necessarily go towards food and shelter...

1mcampo1

ScienceNerd wrote: »

£1000 in the hands of homeless person mightn't necessarily go towards food and shelter...

but then again £1000 might just help the person find their feet...

...or 1000 can's of druids

jive

hahah he's actually nuts I love it. If he had a better footballing brain he'd be unreal. Hopefully it comes with age.

spiralism

Ah Balotelli...Nearly have to break out the popcorn every time he's mentioned

It didn't even annoy me that much with the way he acted against utd, he's just actually a few cards short of a deck, full stop.

amacachi

The link in the OP is one of the best articles I've read in a long time. :pac:

upandcumming

Footytube wrote:

Someone needed to act to show they weren't all bastards all of the time.

Great line.

Paully D

I couldn't stand Balotelli when he first came to England, but he has grown on me to be honest. He just doesn't give a **** and doesn't care what anyone else thinks.

NukaCola

x in the city wrote: »

to normal persons that is a large chunk of cash.

to the balotelli's of this world its

meh....

Such a miserable point of view to take......every silver lining has a cloud eh x.......

Degag

Am..... yeah i can't criticise him, fair play to him - no doubt about it. But it's about the equivalent of any of us giving a fiver to SVP.

Pro. F

Degag wrote: »

Am..... yeah i can't criticise him, fair play to him - no doubt about it. But it's about the equivalent of any of us giving a fiver to SVP.

This. It really is.

LukeS_

Maybe he was just paying him to put his coat on for him? Bibotelli.

judas101

LukeS_ wrote: »

Maybe he was just paying him to put his coat on for him? Bibotelli.

Thanks for highlighting the joke

super_furry

http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/news/Mario-Balotelli-of-Manchester-City-taunts-hooker-Wayne-Rooney-Jenny-Thompson-at-posh-restaurant-article716910.html#ixzz1HbmlcE9V

Manchester City striker Mario Balotelli shocked diners at a posh city centre restaurant by taunting Wayne Rooney hooker Jenny Thompson, it has been claimed.

The bib-averse Italian is said to have shouted "Rooney, Rooney" across the floor at exclusive San Carlo - then blown a raspberry in the face of her companion when he complained.

Property developer Sam Birch says Balotelli then asked him to come outside.

He said: "He tied to grab my arm before squaring up. Our foreheads were touching and I wasn't going to back down. Then he swore at me in Italian.

"I think he is unhinged."

Thompson, who last week was linked with sexy texts sent to Everton's Jack Rodwell, has since been banned from the restaurant.

LEGEND

eZe^

When he wrote off his sports car in Manchester shortly after arriving in the city last year, attendant police officers searched him and discovered £5,000 in cash hanging out of his back pocket. Asked why he was carrying such a sum, Balotelli shrugged and said: "Because I am rich."

Best story I've ever heard. Hahahaha

Mars Bar

I think that lad suffers from split personality or something! He switches from a complete blithering ______ (complete as you see fit) to a generous celebrity in no time.

pickarooney

mars bar wrote: »

I think that lad suffers from split personality or something! He switches from a complete blithering ______ (complete as you see fit) to a generous celebrity in no time.

A fool and his money are easily parted.

Paully D

A lad who gets on the Sunderland forum and owns a nightclub in Manchester that the footballers go to said that Balotelli turned up one night with three bodyguards, he was all dressed in black with a scarf covering his face (up to his eyes) and loads of bling on. He asked for a private room as he said he wasn't supposed to be there, but spent his time standing outside the door of the women's toilets trying to grab the women that there entering and exiting the bathroom. He was asked to leave shortly afterwards :pac:

ilovelamp2000

I love Balotelli. He's a proper character and a breath of fresh air in football.

Panthro

There is something almost biblical with that image of Mario surrouded by an angry United crowd.
Jesus surrounded by soldiers for the oul Crucifixion situation springs to mind.

Killme00

The same people who love him this week will want to lynch him next, such is the life of a glitterati :rolleyes:

Chardee MacDennis

papagormo wrote: »

There is something almost biblical with that image of Mario surrouded by an angry United crowd.
Jesus surrounded by soldiers for the oul Crucifixion situation springs to mind.

springs to mind if you listened to football weekly this week

Ebbs

mars bar wrote: »

I think that lad suffers from split personality or something! He switches from a complete blithering ______ (complete as you see fit) to a generous celebrity in no time.

I dont think he's exactly a generous celebrity, I think he's just mental.

I honestly dont think hes trying to be bad or indeed nice, it's just hes a bit..."touched".

His antics are hilarious though but I cant see it ending well for him tbh. Depression/alcoholic/drugs or something will get to him eventually.

There was a topic about Paul McGrath the other day and the consensus was (and rightly so) dont laugh at a man with problems that ruined his life and the lives of those around him.... I wonder how long it'll be till this is how we view poor oul mario.

RasTa

On the pitch he is pretty useless but off it he is great.

super_furry

There's definitely a touch of the Paul Gascoignes about him.

CSF

super_furry wrote: »

http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/news/Mario-Balotelli-of-Manchester-City-taunts-hooker-Wayne-Rooney-Jenny-Thompson-at-posh-restaurant-article716910.html#ixzz1HbmlcE9V

Manchester City striker Mario Balotelli shocked diners at a posh city centre restaurant by taunting Wayne Rooney hooker Jenny Thompson, it has been claimed.

The bib-averse Italian is said to have shouted "Rooney, Rooney" across the floor at exclusive San Carlo - then blown a raspberry in the face of her companion when he complained.

Property developer Sam Birch says Balotelli then asked him to come outside.

He said: "He tied to grab my arm before squaring up. Our foreheads were touching and I wasn't going to back down. Then he swore at me in Italian.

"I think he is unhinged."

Thompson, who last week was linked with sexy texts sent to Everton's Jack Rodwell, has since been banned from the restaurant.

LEGEND

This is amazing.

kryogen

I did enjoy the bit where it said Nani has built a statue of himself

MagicMarker

ilovelamp2000 wrote: »

I love Balotelli. He's a proper character and a breath of fresh air in football.

Does he have a light bulb on his head?

kryogen

He is an idiot tbf

Has the potential to be world class, but he is such a tool, and in all likelyhood, very mentally unbalanced, that he will never be as good as he can be

Pro. F

MagicMarker wrote: »

Does he have a light bulb on his head?

Man how did I not spot that before?! I can't look at the picture without seeing that now.

inforfun

Best thing he did was telling his birth parents to piss off after he signed his first contract.
All of a sudden they came out of the dark, really missed him and wanted him back as their child.

eZe^

inforfun wrote: »

Best thing he did was telling his birth parents to piss off after he signed his first contract.
All of a sudden they came out of the dark, really missed him and wanted him back as their child.

Rofl, he's the most bizarre character I've come across in football. Maybe it's all just a massive joke on modern society, and he's really like an Oxford philosophy student.

The Muppet

I gave a tenner to a homeless person once, it never made the papers though.

eZe^

The Muppet wrote: »

I gave a tenner to a homeless person once, it never made the papers though.

1. You're not famous

2. 1,000 quid is a few orders more significant.

parker kent

For all the abuse The Guardian gets here, people could at least give it credit since it is where the actual article comes from!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/lostinshowbiz/2011/apr/21/mario-balotelli-britain-new-buffoon

The Muppet

eZe^ wrote: »

1. You're not famous

2. 1,000 quid is a few orders more significant.

1 I might be famous .

2 it's all relative

eZe^

The Muppet wrote: »

1 I might be famous .

2 it's all relevant

I'm just saying, if I was a homeless guy, I know I'd prefer to have Bibotelli coming down the street throwing me 1k from his back pocket then Mr./ Mrs./ Ms. The Muppet and the tenner.

The Muppet

eZe^ wrote: »

I'm just saying, if I was a homeless guy, I know I'd prefer to have Bibotelli coming down the street throwing me 1k from his back pocket then Mr./ Mrs./ Ms. The Muppet and the tenner.

He seemed happy enough and didn't offer it back.


BTW it's all relative is what I meant to post.

Fair play to him though.

JohnnyRyan99

Every time i think of Balotelli it takes me back to my Leaving Cert studying Derek Mahon... "At the heart of the ridiculous, the sublime"

I Mario

CR 7

I just can't bring myself to hate him, even after last weekend. He's just a modern day likeable rogue.

And of course, there's this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzi_tXxueec

Rob113

Pro. F wrote: »

Man how did I not spot that before?! I can't look at the picture without seeing that now.

That's not a lightbulb it's a halo