Spurge wrote:Well Balotelli infuriated me today.
I think it should have been a penalty, but he should have just let it go and got on with the job like a pro. I don't buy into all this needing to be nurtured and he's still young shit. He plays fir himself as far as I can see and it makes him a liability.
OK I'll answer this rationally.
I agree that his hot headedness does indeed make him a bit of a liability. Yes I also agree that he should have let it go after he was barged over in the area.
BUT he did not remotely play for himself today. Up until he went off he had actually worked pretty bloody hard for the team. He had chased back and dispossessed County players on a number of occasions. His running was intelligent, he had some great touches and tried to set up a number of his colleagues throughout the match. Things didn't quite run for him but the same was true of pretty much the whole team throughout the first half and at least the first 10 mins of the second.
His head did not go down and he wasn't going to ground like some are trying to make it seem.
The fact that some idiots on here choose to focus on the negatives and wholly ignore the (many) positives just beggars belief. He's a fucking City player....what on earth does ANYONE who supports us have to gain by getting on his back (...unjustly IMO).
People don't have to like the lad but FFS if you can't see that a barmy, unfounded and vocal aversion to him can only possibly harm City then honestly I don't understand where some people come from.