The Banter Thread

Mario Balotelli. Natural born entertainer. Last night, Italy wore their brand new home shirt. Balotelli played the entire first half wearing the new shirt, but came out in the second half wearing the old shirt, and managed to play in it for 5 minutes before getting booked for a challenge and then ordered to go change by the referee

Biz.Kid09 · 16 Nov 2011 at 14:32

No one else noticed apart from the ref? :confused:

Yas786 · 16 Nov 2011 at 15:29

Biz.Kid09 said:
No one else noticed apart from the ref?

Seems so...absolutely love Ballotelli, such an entertaining guy and always coming up with new and wonderful ways to wind everyone up. The guys a class A joker and god knows how Mancini puts up with his antics but such a breath of fresh air in the EPL.

Waiting to see what does next, im sure it will be just as lolworthy as what he has done in the past

Alpherah · 16 Nov 2011 at 17:57

Well Suarez got charged, which is interesting because out of all of Evras allegations against players this is the first time anythings been done, yet there's still 0 evidence.

Good on the FA to be consistent as always.

-edit-
Clarification. The charge relates to "offensive and abusive language", which is what he's being charged for.

With

"further allegations of racial abuse"

Considering the language used on the pitch between players is potty at the best of times, and Suarez doesn't speak a sentence of any language Evra actually speaks, its interesting how it could be deemed offensive enough to be the first player in god knows how long to be pulled up over it.

Rameses · 16 Nov 2011 at 18:03

We have no idea what evidence the FA have so how can you claim they don't?

Time will tell.

Alpherah · 16 Nov 2011 at 18:07

Because the match report said that the officials were un-aware until after the game.
Because Sky trawled through the entire match footage and didn't find one incident (unlike the JT case)
and
Because SAF was actually nice about Liverpool after the game, which was unlike him.
How do you think he would have reacted if there was substance to it really?

Although to add some perspective, the Chelsea groundsman who also got charged was later acquitted in a hearing.

It will be most interesting to see how the FA handle the JT incident, as there's substantially more grounds for punishment there.

Biz.Kid09 · 16 Nov 2011 at 18:32

Spawn said:
Seems so...absolutely love Ballotelli, such an entertaining guy and always coming up with new and wonderful ways to wind everyone up. The guys a class A joker and god knows how Mancini puts up with his antics but such a breath of fresh air in the EPL.

Waiting to see what does next, im sure it will be just as lolworthy as what he has done in the past

Everyone does if they say it or not.

Wouldn't surprise me if City keep telling him to keep doing it to keep the club in the papers every week as what he is doing isn't anything like the sexual assault, adultery and racism that has occurred this season by other footballers so its all good press.

Mancini is really getting the best footballing ability out of him as well as getting him set mentally in terms of working in a team and not fighting team mates