Pages

Wednesday 30 January 2013

Bye-Bye : Mario Balotelli Packs His Bags For AC Milan

Goodbye and good riddance, or thanks for the memories? After three years in Manchester, Mario Balotelli is heading back to Italy in a deal worth almost £20million. It is a financial loss for City, but is it a loss to the Premier League?
I'll say this for him, he's pretty reliable from 12 yards. Beyond that, his reliability is akin to that of Del Boy's three-wheeler; the £25million man is a plonker.

Whenever discussion turns to the striker, as it inevitability does on an almost daily basis, I'm reminded of the old phrase, 'just because you are a character, doesn't mean you have character'.

Football's great characters - George Best, Eric Cantona, Paul Gascoigne, Paolo di Canio - filled column inches off the pitch, but however serious their indiscretions without the ball, they demanded headlines for what they achieved with it.

No comments:

Post a Comment