Roddy B wrote:
I agree, Mancini is a prat. Not only was the substitution needless, but he's added vast heat into a very fiery character's attitude, and that's generally not good. Balotelli has a woeful disciplinary record and he's renowned for stropping on the pitch. Mancini should have kept it behind closes doors and tried to move on, instead of humiliating a player who doesn't take discipline very well.
I bet you would have handled it differently on Champ Manager.
You say that Mancini should have kept it behind closed doors. Maybe Mancini has tried every approach possible but they are not working effectively. I think this is an instance when you need more information before jumping to conclusions.
Has the most successful manager in the PL (i.e. Ferguson) ever done this before?
Saddened! wrote:
I can't see how anyone can defend Balotelli to be honest. He's a complete and utter fool. It's not the most serious incident in the world but how any club can employ him is beyond me, he is certain to get into trouble again.
He deserves to be humiliated, he's a fool. He has proven time and time again he's not a professional and has no class or dignity or respect.
If the world was full of Michael Owen’s and Alan Shearer’s, it would be a very dull place. Regardless of what you think about him, he is a character. Football is in the era of the cliché and soundbites. Balotelli at least takes us out of that occasionally. May be some people lack a sense of humour.
Sometimes he annoys me, but more often than not I find him funny.
When George Best dribbled around a keeper and lent on the post with the ball underneath his foot, people referred to it as ‘classic, ‘genius’ etc.. Not forgetting him getting on his knees to head a ball over the line. Someone else does something similar (in a friendly) it and it is regarded as ‘disrespectful’.
