Joe Hart on Balotelli's red card

[Grob]

I really wanna start a thread for john and ted to see what positives they have to offer for today but I know I'll be vilified for being negative!

I've a positive for you mate. Thats the last we'll see of Balotelli

Are you confident about that?

I'd have assumed a manager with some sanity would have come to that conclusion a while back but surely now even Mancini must realise the club would be better off without him.

His post match comments seem to suggest the penny has dropped with him

[Manx Blue]

PMSL!

[Douglas Higginbottom]

Tbh, I'm not really that arsed about Balotelli's 2nd booking. It was just a bit of over anxiety. He will get loads of shit for it but I could imagine Franny Lee or summerbee or Tueart doing the same thing in that moment.

It's his 1st half red card challenge which has decided me he has to go.

Agreed no issue with the 2nd booking.It was very late in the game and not all that bad but the red card tackle was a joke.

But what I was concerned with is how little he contributed to the team in the game.It's like playing with 10 men at times and I think that some of the players think exactly that.

[Steve]

I really wanna start a thread for john and ted to see what positives they have to offer for today but I know I'll be vilified for being negative!

I've a positive for you mate. Thats the last we'll see of Balotelli

Are you confident about that?

I'd have assumed a manager with some sanity would have come to that conclusion a while back but surely now even Mancini must realise the club would be better off without him.

His post match comments seem to suggest the penny has dropped with him

The main issue today (for me at least anyway) was inept performance for 90 minutes.. The red card was trivial, as it came right at the death, and the game was lost by then. Mario was having a shocking game, continued to the lose/give the ball away, when it eventually came his way. Yet it didn't seem to cross Mancini's mind to bring him off?

[Grob]

I really wanna start a thread for john and ted to see what positives they have to offer for today but I know I'll be vilified for being negative!

I've a positive for you mate. Thats the last we'll see of Balotelli

Are you confident about that?

I'd have assumed a manager with some sanity would have come to that conclusion a while back but surely now even Mancini must realise the club would be better off without him.

His post match comments seem to suggest the penny has dropped with him

The main issue today (for me at least anyway) was inept performance for 90 minutes.. The red card was trivial, as it came right at the death, and the game was lost by then. Mario was having a shocking game, continued to the lose/give the ball away, when it eventually came his way. Yet it didn't seem to cross Mancini's mind to bring him off?

The red card was the icing, the rest of his performance was borderline abysmal. Again.

Along with Mancini's.

[DoomMerchant]

I don't laugh out loud a lot on here

read my posts a little more closely, spaz. Use a dictionary whilst doing so as well. You should be cured of this within a week if you follow my instructions. Dr Doomy's order's.

cheers

[Longball]

besides Balos sendin off -the team were shite anyway - aguero non interst-milner was fucked at 60 mins bending over heavin for breath-too late substituition-Barry interested but too limited-Nasri hes a joke-next season we will hammer this league when rid of Mancini n Balo

[Stannaz1988]

Mancini has lost the dressing room... He puts to much faith in mario and the fans, players etc av ad enough... Time to go, it's a step too far for Mancini. They won't play when an idiot like mario is making a mockery out of the club

[getdressedmctavish]

With Doug there. I turned to me mate who was moaning and said "were doin alright for ten men"I honestly think the manager has lost his job with his decisions or lack of them during that game.i keep coming back to the same thing with Mancini. He 's making a simple game difficult.Why play the idiot. And why leave him on when we cant get a kick after 65 mins? And then Arse miss a sitter and you still do nothing. What does it take, a bugle up your arse?

[maf]

I'm begining to think that Balos that very rare example of someone whos actually too thick to be a footballer .

[Mingchester Mingy]

I'm begining to think that Balos that very rare example of someone whos actually too thick to be a footballer .

I second that. At times in the game I also noticed his laziness. He was waltzing towards the action like a slow run way model walks, like one leg over the other, la te dah.....kid is head case and I saw through this BS from the start. People say he is "enigmatic", no, he is an a**hole who needs to go elsewhere. If Harty did call him a d*ck head, he was just saying what everyone else on the team is thinking. Im so sick of this idiot that I find it hard to root for him.

[Im_Spartacus]

Nobody has mentioned the walk off the pitch. No idea whether the clockis stopped for such incidents, but walking ridiculously slowly off the pitch, in the last minute of a game we have to get something from was appalling.

Showed his stupidity /contempt for the team

[DoomMerchant]

Nobody has mentioned the walk off the pitch. No idea whether the clockis stopped for such incidents, but walking ridiculously slowly off the pitch, in the last minute of a game we have to get something from was appalling.

Showed his stupidity /contempt for the team

and Mancini was losing his mind with him to hurry up and get the fuck off...and when he heard Roberto he could barely muster a jog.

silly.

[simon12]

Mancini has lost the dressing room... He puts to much faith in mario and the fans, players etc av ad enough... Time to go, it's a step too far for Mancini. They won't play when an idiot like mario is making a mockery out of the club

Good morning Mr Custis.

[Spurge]

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He needs to wake up in the morning and look himself in the mirror.

I suspect thats the only bit you mentioned in your post that he'll actually do

[Biamp]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba ... e-ban.html

EXCLUSIVE: Balotelli faces NINE-game ban after reckless Song tackle

By Sami Mokbel, Ian Ladyman and John Edwards

PUBLISHED: 21:30 GMT, 9 April 2012 | UPDATED: 21:30 GMT, 9 April 2012

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Mario Balotelli is facing a nine-game 'totting up' ban after the FA revealed they are deciding whether to punish his studs-up tackle on Arsenal's Alex Song, which referee Martin Atkinson missed.

If they do, it would count as a fourth red card of the season for the Italian, who is facing a revolt by his Manchester City team-mates, with several demanding that manager Roberto Mancini kicks him out of the club this summer.
Bad timing: City striker Balotelli faces a nine-game ban

Bad timing: City striker Balotelli faces a nine-game ban

Balotelli was sent off anyway late in the defeat by Arsenal for a second yellow card. He already misses one game for that sending off and an extra two because it was his third red of the season.

He could be banned for a further three games for the Song tackle and then for another three because that would count as his fourth red.
Too little, too late: Balotelli apologises to Song after his rash tackle in the first half of Sunday's clash

Too little, too late: Balotelli apologises to Song after his rash tackle in the first half of Sunday's clash

Balotelli last night issued an apology through his agent amid the backlash from his team-mates.


One City insider described how players are 'sick and tired' of Balotelli's conduct, while another said they don't trust him and want Mancini to sell him at the end of the season.

The fact that Mancini, who at the start of the season was determined to protect Balotelli, has seemingly lost patience with him has solidified the view among fellow players that he must go.

Balotelli's agent, Mino Raiola, insisted the player wants to stay at the Etihad Stadium, saying: 'Mancini said he will be sold? I'm going to speak directly with Roberto and with the club, but I don't think they will really do it.'
On a prayer: The Italian is eventually given his marching orders by referee Martin Atkinson

On a prayer: The Italian is eventually given his marching orders by referee Martin Atkinson

Italy coach Cesare Prandelli added to Balotelli's woes, warning that he could be axed from their European Championship squad.

Prandelli left him out of February's game against the United States after his stamp on Tottenham midfielder Scott Parker and warned him about his future conduct.

Prandelli said: 'I will view the images of what happened at Arsenal and then decide whether Balotelli goes to Poland and the Ukraine

[Im_Spartacus]

Now, i am struggling with that article.

He was sent off in that game right. So regardless whether atkinson saw the tackle or not, how can he get another sending off in the same game he has already been sent off in? This then moves back to the rooney forearm smash on james mccarthy last year..........atkinson saw balotellis tackle (he gave a free kick), but missed the severity of it.

The referee said he saw rooney contact mccarthy but did not realise the severity of it - yet despite a clear elbow with crystal clear intent, and evidence the referee was in fact looking the other way, no retrospective action was taken, basically the referee lied.

Yet if this happens, it will be the 4th occasion where the rule about things being dealt with on the pitch is broken by the fa concernin city players, a rule that has to my knowledge never been invoked for any other club in the premier league.

Mario is a cunt, but this retrospective action is fucking ridiculous - as such clamour would never happen in bolton vs stoke, oror that matter any incident involving lets say paul scholes

[DoomMerchant]

Now, i am struggling with that article.

He was sent off in that game right. So regardless whether atkinson saw the tackle or not, how can he get another sending off in the same game he has already been sent off in? This then moves back to the rooney forearm smash on james mccarthy last year..........atkinson saw balotellis tackle (he gave a free kick), but missed the severity of it.

The referee saw rooney contact mccarthy but did not realise the severity of it - yet despite a clear elbow with crystal clear intent, no retrospective action)

Yet if this happens, it will be the 4th occasion where the rule about things being dealt with on the pitch is broken by the fa concernin city players, a rule that has to my knowledge never been invoked for any other club in the premier league.

Mario is a cunt, but this retrospective action is fucking ridiculous - as such clamour would never happen in bolton vs stoke, oror that matter any incident involving lets say paul scholes

it's got to be garbage...i mean, i hate to get all "Ted" about it..but if they basically give Mario the equivalent of 2 reds in one match it will pretty much be an unprecedented, illegal move which will justify every single thing the alleged paranoids have said about City having the deck stacked against us all season.

ridiculous.

cheers

[Beefymcfc]

I don't see why people are getting so heated/upset about his sending off. The challenge on song was stupid but in my opinion he was going for the ball and wasn't purposely trying to go through him, even though the press have said it's a leg-breaker it didn't look anything of the type to me. And if he did do it purposely, was it a little afterwards for what happened to Yaya, which went unpunished?

The yellow cards as well, they were both cynical but nothing that serious where I thought they deserved cards, especially considering the ref had let far worse go for Arsenal.

As for Mancini keeping him on, well, what do you do? Everyone on here has already said that Dzeko's shit so there's one down. Everyone's already said that Aguero didn't get in the game, that's 2 down. Everyone hates Tevez and don't believe he should be on the pitch and with his lack of match time that brings us back to Mario, the one lad who can get hold of a ball and make a goal out of nothing from that left-hand side. He did it last week and on many other occassions and it's my thought that Mancini thought it was worth the risk.

And to say he was shit all the way through, he may not have been the best but his cards showed that at least he wanted to get involved, for the cause. Please tell me what more any of our forward thinking players did? The only decent player their on Sunday was Pizzaro who at least tried to get things going, although his legs weren't quite up to it in the end.

Understandably, because of the Red card, Mario is taking the brunt for this loss whereas the team and manager should collectively take the blame. To lose 1-0 to Arsenal is no shame in itself but the manner in which the players went down, is.

[Im_Spartacus]

I don't see why people are getting so heated/upset about his sending off. The challenge on song was stupid but in my opinion he was going for the ball and wasn't purposely trying to go through him, even though the press have said it's a leg-breaker it didn't look anything of the type to me. And if he did do it purposely, was it a little afterwards for what happened to Yaya, which went unpunished?

The yellow cards as well, they were both cynical but nothing that serious where I thought they deserved cards, especially considering the ref had let far worse go for Arsenal.

As for Mancini keeping him on, well, what do you do? Everyone on here has already said that Dzeko's shit so there's one down. Everyone's already said that Aguero didn't get in the game, that's 2 down. Everyone hates Tevez and don't believe he should be on the pitch and with his lack of match time that brings us back to Mario, the one lad who can get hold of a ball and make a goal out of nothing from that left-hand side. He did it last week and on many other occassions and it's my thought that Mancini thought it was worth the risk.

And to say he was shit all the way through, he may not have been the best but his cards showed that at least he wanted to get involved, for the cause. Please tell me what more any of our forward thinking players did? The only decent player their on Sunday was Pizzaro who at least tried to get things going, although his legs weren't quite up to it in the end.

Understandably, because of the Red card, Mario is taking the brunt for this loss whereas the team and manager should collectively take the blame. To lose 1-0 to Arsenal is no shame in itself but the manner in which the players went down, is.

I think you have read peoples feelings on balotelli totally wrong.

When you then see mancini calling out balo you will see that most people thought this was unacceptable from the manager, as it is he who seems to have tried to use mario as the fall guy, not the fans