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Protecting Mario ??

Postby Bluemoon16 » Fri Dec 16, 2011 11:18 pm

Damn, it feels good to be a gangsta.

The Geto Boys knew what they were talking about, even if they weren't delving into the landscape of the English Premiership as it pertains to Mario Balotelli. However, had they known Mad Mario, they might have changed that hook to read, "Damn, it feels good to be Mario."

The Daily Mail reported on the latest and greatest concerning the Manchester City star. A genius on the pitch seems to be forever involved in less-than-hilarious antics that paint him as football villain when he really should be a hero.

The man has the talent and form to be one of the most well-liked footballers in the world. Instead, he is constantly threatening to have his off-the-pitch antics trump any magic he brings on it.

The mad man has now decided to pick apart his teammate Micah Richards. As the report maintains, Balotelli seems to have thrown a barb at Richards after an errant pass in training. That is when the defender lost it and launched himself at the famed forward.

The two were separated, but not before photographers snapped off a myriad of pictures that bring to light the issues that top-of-the-table City are suffering from.

So what happens now? Does Roberto Mancini publicly blast his striker? Do City ban Balotelli from the training ground until he has learned his lesson? The answer is: Build higher fences so this stuff never gets out.

The report states City plan on building more extensive covering for the raining pitch, and this makes a world of sense.

You see, Balotelli has superhuman talents which means he does not have to abide by the same rules that others normally would. He is just plain nasty on the pitch and this is why City will stand back and let him crazy up the place, just as long as the results keeping coming.

The Blues have been sent off from the all-important Champions League. Which means they will put all their efforts into domestic glory as they try to maintain control of the EPL table.

They do not get there without one of the best players in the world. So you may not like Balotelli constantly picking fights, but he is too good to punish. That sentiment only makes sense in the wonderful world of sport.
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Re: Protecting Mario ??

Postby lets all have a disco » Fri Dec 16, 2011 11:31 pm

My heavily pregnant sister meet Mario today she was devastated that she met him whilst preggers think she took a shine to him.
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Re: Protecting Mario ??

Postby Fesan » Fri Dec 16, 2011 11:45 pm

lets all have a disco wrote:My heavily pregnant sister meet Mario today she was devastated that she met him whilst preggers think she took a shine to him.


You never know, he might dig forbidden fruit!
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Re: Protecting Mario ??

Postby Lev Bronstein » Fri Dec 16, 2011 11:53 pm

On the other hand -

http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/11898/

For those who can't be arsed following the link -

"A funny thing happened on my Twitter timeline when Manchester City scored against Chelsea this week. Football fans of all persuasions professed their love for the goalscorer Mario Balotelli. The enigmatic Italian striker has become something of a cult hero. He is technically ineligible for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award, but most football fans would agree – particularly those with a sense of humour – that he is the outstanding candidate.

How do we explain the nation’s affection for Balotelli? For a start, most fans outside the blue half of Manchester don’t very much care for his club. No longer the lovable losers of yesteryear, Manchester City now ticks all the right ‘must-hate’ boxes: filthy-rich foreign oil-tycoon owner trying to buy success, homegrown players displaced by overseas mercenaries and stadium-naming rights flogged to an Abu Dhabi airline. Moreover, Balotelli himself embodies what many people see as the worst attributes of the modern footballer. He is the consummate anti-role model: he has more money than sense, flaunts his wealth, is prone to brattish sulks, doesn’t celebrate goals and frequently loses his discipline. And yet not only is he adored by City fans, many rival supporters love him, too.

Why have we taken a footballing bad boy to our hearts? My theory is that there are three types of footballers who inspire affectation across the boundaries of club allegiance. Firstly, there are the fantasy players like George Best, Lionel Messi, Zinedine Zidane or Diego Maradona. These are the football magicians whom we’d pay good money to watch. Secondly, there are the battlers: the fight-them-on-the-beaches types who you’d want alongside you in the trenches. They are not always the most gifted players but they lead by example, spill blood for the cause and galvanise those around them. Think Terry Butcher in a bloodied head bandage or Roy Keane snarling, yelling and driving his team-mates forward. You’d detest them if they were on the opposition side but you’d love them in your team.

Finally, there are the 24-carat nutters. Balotelli falls into this third category. He’s a talented footballer, but he’s yet to realise his potential. Nor would you want him with you in the trenches – he’d be a friendly fire incident waiting to happen. No, Balotelli is loved for the simple reason that he’s as mad as box of frogs. You see, if there’s one thing we Brits can’t resist, it’s a good old fashioned eccentric. Take Jose Mourinho, for example. The nation first swooned over the Portuguese coach when he went berserk at Old Trafford in 2004 as his Porto team knocked Manchester United out of the Champions League.

Mourinho has a gargantuan ego – not a quality we particularly admire in others. He managed a Chelsea team which was widely loathed for its new-found wealth. His teams play a pragmatic brand of football that British fans instinctively dislike. And yet we love him. Why? In part it’s because, in an age of air-brushed media-trained blandness, Mourinho is a big, colourful personality. He is witty and charming. During his tenure at Stamford Bridge he had cynical English sports hacks eating out of his hand at press conferences. But what we love above all else is that he’s bonkers. One minute he’s the suave, sophisticated Continental tactician, the next he’s cavorting dementedly on the touchline like Bez from the Happy Mondays.

As with Mourinho, what endears us to Balotelli are his bizarre antics on and off the pitch. Two weeks after arriving in Manchester, he wrecked his Audi R8. When police arrived at the crash scene, they asked Balotelli why he had £5,000 in cash in his pocket. ‘Because I am rich’, replied the Italian. Since then, he has repeatedly created headlines with a series of comic capers: throwing a dart at a youth-team player, setting off fireworks in his house, suffering an allergic reaction to grass, giving £1,000 to a tramp, driving a truant to his school to confront a bully, having a hilarious fight with his training bib, being subbed for a botched back-heel in a pre-season friendly and, most recently, breaking a pre-match curfew. Balotelli celebrated scoring in the 6-1 drubbing of United by revealing a t-shirt with the slogan ‘Why Always Me?’. The Guardian’s Simon Hattenstone described this as a ‘genius sentence with more meanings than words’. In fact, no one has the foggiest what he meant, but that only serves to enhance his legend.

Manchester City fans pay tribute to their quirky striker with a catchy terrace chant: ‘Oh Balotelli he’s a striker, he’s good at darts; An allergy to grass but when he plays he’s fucking class; He drives around Moss Side with a wallet full of cash.’ What I like about the song is that it celebrates not his goals but his madcap antics. It’s a refreshing riposte to the moralism that has infected the modern game. Every week we have to endure sanctimonious pundits frothing over badly behaved footballers. Overpaid, foul-mouthed, thuggish, disrespectful…blah, blah, blah. What people forget is that football is theatre. We’re there to be entertained, not to receive moral instruction. And therein lies the appeal of Mad Mario. He delivers top-notch entertainment. Football needs more nutters like him."

Not 21 and already he's a legend amongst most football fans.

My favourite comment was from Fred Eyre during the Villareal away game "3-0 up and Mario's starting to look bored. One of the trainers should run on with his iPod so he can stay interested."

Or heard on the Radio "He's so Rock and Roll he probably warms up with his hands in his pocket"
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Re: Protecting Mario ??

Postby Original Dub » Sat Dec 17, 2011 9:46 am

Lev Bronstein wrote:On the other hand -

[url="http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/11898/"]http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/11898/[/url]

For those who can't be arsed following the link -

"A funny thing happened on my Twitter timeline when Manchester City scored against Chelsea this week. Football fans of all persuasions professed their love for the goalscorer Mario Balotelli. The enigmatic Italian striker has become something of a cult hero. He is technically ineligible for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award, but most football fans would agree – particularly those with a sense of humour – that he is the outstanding candidate.

How do we explain the nation’s affection for Balotelli? For a start, most fans outside the blue half of Manchester don’t very much care for his club. No longer the lovable losers of yesteryear, Manchester City now ticks all the right ‘must-hate’ boxes: filthy-rich foreign oil-tycoon owner trying to buy success, homegrown players displaced by overseas mercenaries and stadium-naming rights flogged to an Abu Dhabi airline. Moreover, Balotelli himself embodies what many people see as the worst attributes of the modern footballer. He is the consummate anti-role model: he has more money than sense, flaunts his wealth, is prone to brattish sulks, doesn’t celebrate goals and frequently loses his discipline. And yet not only is he adored by City fans, many rival supporters love him, too.

Why have we taken a footballing bad boy to our hearts? My theory is that there are three types of footballers who inspire affectation across the boundaries of club allegiance. Firstly, there are the fantasy players like George Best, Lionel Messi, Zinedine Zidane or Diego Maradona. These are the football magicians whom we’d pay good money to watch. Secondly, there are the battlers: the fight-them-on-the-beaches types who you’d want alongside you in the trenches. They are not always the most gifted players but they lead by example, spill blood for the cause and galvanise those around them. Think Terry Butcher in a bloodied head bandage or Roy Keane snarling, yelling and driving his team-mates forward. You’d detest them if they were on the opposition side but you’d love them in your team.

Finally, there are the 24-carat nutters. Balotelli falls into this third category. He’s a talented footballer, but he’s yet to realise his potential. Nor would you want him with you in the trenches – he’d be a friendly fire incident waiting to happen. No, Balotelli is loved for the simple reason that he’s as mad as box of frogs. You see, if there’s one thing we Brits can’t resist, it’s a good old fashioned eccentric. Take Jose Mourinho, for example. The nation first swooned over the Portuguese coach when he went berserk at Old Trafford in 2004 as his Porto team knocked Manchester United out of the Champions League.

Mourinho has a gargantuan ego – not a quality we particularly admire in others. He managed a Chelsea team which was widely loathed for its new-found wealth. His teams play a pragmatic brand of football that British fans instinctively dislike. And yet we love him. Why? In part it’s because, in an age of air-brushed media-trained blandness, Mourinho is a big, colourful personality. He is witty and charming. During his tenure at Stamford Bridge he had cynical English sports hacks eating out of his hand at press conferences. But what we love above all else is that he’s bonkers. One minute he’s the suave, sophisticated Continental tactician, the next he’s cavorting dementedly on the touchline like Bez from the Happy Mondays.

As with Mourinho, what endears us to Balotelli are his bizarre antics on and off the pitch. Two weeks after arriving in Manchester, he wrecked his Audi R8. When police arrived at the crash scene, they asked Balotelli why he had £5,000 in cash in his pocket. ‘Because I am rich’, replied the Italian. Since then, he has repeatedly created headlines with a series of comic capers: throwing a dart at a youth-team player, setting off fireworks in his house, suffering an allergic reaction to grass, giving £1,000 to a tramp, driving a truant to his school to confront a bully, having a hilarious fight with his training bib, being subbed for a botched back-heel in a pre-season friendly and, most recently, breaking a pre-match curfew. Balotelli celebrated scoring in the 6-1 drubbing of United by revealing a t-shirt with the slogan ‘Why Always Me?’. The Guardian’s Simon Hattenstone described this as a ‘genius sentence with more meanings than words’. In fact, no one has the foggiest what he meant, but that only serves to enhance his legend.

Manchester City fans pay tribute to their quirky striker with a catchy terrace chant: ‘Oh Balotelli he’s a striker, he’s good at darts; An allergy to grass but when he plays he’s fucking class; He drives around Moss Side with a wallet full of cash.’ What I like about the song is that it celebrates not his goals but his madcap antics. It’s a refreshing riposte to the moralism that has infected the modern game. Every week we have to endure sanctimonious pundits frothing over badly behaved footballers. Overpaid, foul-mouthed, thuggish, disrespectful…blah, blah, blah. What people forget is that football is theatre. We’re there to be entertained, not to receive moral instruction. And therein lies the appeal of Mad Mario. He delivers top-notch entertainment. Football needs more nutters like him."

Not 21 and already he's a legend amongst most football fans.

My favourite comment was from Fred Eyre during the Villareal away game "3-0 up and Mario's starting to look bored. One of the trainers should run on with his iPod so he can stay interested."

Or heard on the Radio "He's so Rock and Roll he probably warms up with his hands in his pocket"


Quality.

Not sure what the OP is at. Everytime he posts something its negative towards the club, then he fucks off.

I think he might be a cunt, but I don't want to say anything...
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Re: Protecting Mario ??

Postby Plain Speaking » Sat Dec 17, 2011 10:41 am

I thought it was interesting to see what the players dresssed up as at the Christmas fancy dress party. These occasions can reveal their admiration for alternative characters. Mario the Ganster, Micca the commando, Owen Hargreaves Batman, Dzeko Darth Vader etc
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Re: Protecting Mario ??

Postby twosips » Sat Dec 17, 2011 11:06 am

Yeah, I must admit, when I look at Edin Dzeko I do think 'that man could easily be an imperial galactic war lord if this was a parallel universe'.....
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Re: Protecting Mario ??

Postby zuricity » Sat Dec 17, 2011 11:43 am

Lev's response seems to be more appropriate.

However even in Lev's referenced article. Is the reporter talking about Arsenal's, Chelsea's or Liverpool's or United's mercenaries replacing homegrown players ? Is he accusing Gareth Barry, James Milner, Joleon Lescott or Adam Johnson of being mercenaries
replacing homegrown players like Micah and Joe ? Where are the English players in the Liverpool , United , Chelsea , or Arsenal ( i forgot Tottenham) teams ? Which of them are really homegrown players ?

Arsenal : only Wilshere and Gibbs from the academy.
United : only Welbeck ( Morrison and Fryers --- Who ? you ask ).
Chelsea: only McEachran ( Who ? you ask)
Liverpool : Gerrard , Spearing , Shelvey,Kelly, Flanagan, Ecclestone , Robinson and Wisdom.
Tottenham . Only King, Livermore and Townsend )

The above players have all at least been in the academy team for their clubs. At least Liverpool have some players from the academy in their first team squad( probably because they are skint !).

So which homegrown players are really being replaced by mercenaries? Truth is, if the homegrown players were really that good, they would be in the squad and playing. Otherwise it can only mean that the standard of football would be lower.
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