Mario Balotelli has attracted plenty of criticism in his short time at Manchester City. On the day he signed, he claimed he wished he hadn’t left Italy and since then has been involved in a whole host of controversies, including training ground punch-ups and throwing darts at City’s youth team players.
When it comes to commitment, it’s clear that this lad couldn’t give a shit less about City and has been linked with moves to AC Milan repeatedly. A month in to his City career he was singing Milan songs from his hospital window and two months after that he claimed he didn’t care which shirt he wore, as long as he got to play alongside Milan’s Ibrahimovic again.
So as soon as the final whistle blew yesterday, it should have come as no surprise that he didn’t run over to his team mates, given how unpopular he is. It should have come as no surprise that he didn’t run over to the City fans, given he doesn’t care about them. But I suppose I was fairly surprised to see him running over to the United fans, wafting his shirt around, because I assumed he couldn’t care less about us either. I could imagine Tevez or even Wright-Phillips or Richards wanting to have a go at our fans, but what have we got to do with Balotelli? It was strange.
Rio: “If you score a goal and give a bit to opposing fans I kind of accept that but at the final whistle go to your own fans and enjoy it, not opposing fans.”
Now, maybe the press have scolded Rio Ferdinand and Anderson for their reaction to this (unsurprisingly, I’ve avoided the papers today), but I was made up to see it. It’s not as if Balotelli had got in one of our players’ face and they were fighting on behalf of their team mates. They went over to Balotelli and had be torn away from him because they were attacking him on behalf of us. I liked that. I liked them being incensed because the fans had been insulted.
Would Balotelli react in the same way if one of our players had rubbed a result in the faces of City fans? Would he fuck.
Thank you Rio and Anderson.
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I’d say would have been better had one of our fans smacked his nose off his face.
Anderson didn’t lay too badly yesterday either, a smal positive!
Anderson has been showing a more commitment to the club lately, which makes me quite optimistic as I think he is a future Ballon d’Or winner. Several years ago he was leaving the impression of someone focusing a bit too much on having fun but now he seems committed to the cause.
LOL scott the red. I have also avoided the papers today and i will continue to do so till tuesday.
to the point, Balotelli is a fool. I did not expect less. Rio hardly gets angry but when rio is angry you know the other players has pissed him off so badly. Props to Rio and Ando for standing up to the fool.
Fucking despicable nutjob cunt. I hope he dies.
mankini was the only one there to help him thats team spirit
Careful … if you mention Balotelli you are considered a racist automatically. Here is an amazing comment from a bitter that I plucked from my blog. The reason why it took me so long to post is because I was laughing too hard. …
“Don’t be bitter, don’t be racist, you lost – we won. Sometimes it happens, maybe not as often as we want it to. If the lad wants to celebrate pointing at his badge in front of the crowd, why not. We put up with your Rooney swearing at the referee and on television, so please don’t be reacting like christians and moralists now.”
Well, the Balotelli-tubby is a moron. He proplably just mixed which fans where shittys and which where United, seeing he can’t even put a shirt on without help…
We’ll be the one’s laughing at the end of the year when we’re crowned Champions of England, Champions of Europe…!
i just cant imagine ballotelli has been linked to us at past times. i even havent seen he contributed anything spectacular to man city so far, fucking overrated player. youre lucky that it’s anderson and rio, and not cantona.
i am not sure keane wouldve acted the way Rio did, but agree with musca that cantona wouldve taken acceptation to it as well.
Are our beloved FA going to do anything about this.Prickotelli deliberately went to the Utd fans & made a gesture that is unsporting.
The answer will probably be no as Bernstein will ensure this episode is swept under the carpet,he (bernstein) will probably conjure up a statement that the player got carried away with emotion.
Hmmm didn’t our player get carried away with emotion ?
Never mind,let the bitters have their bit of cheap glory.They haven’t won anything yet.
Here’s to the 19th.
Straws. At. Clutching.
Balotelli is a grade A cunt. Even if he were to have all the ability in the world, I would never want a player like that on my team. He’s a lonely man. I doubt he has any friends outside of football, let alone in football. All the City players hate him as well, although they won’t say it publically.
He obviously didn’t grab the headlines yesterday after thier win, so he wanted to make the back papers today. I really hope city lose in the final, and our banner on the Stretford End reamains for years to come.
35 YEARS! FUCK ALL!!
@hammons LOL. Cantona might have kicked him all the way back to Italy. That was insolence of the highest order. You won a big derby no need to aggravate anyone. As if we aren’t aggravated enough. When wayne rooney scored his injury time goal. He didn’t run to the city fans and start dancing in front of them. What sort of rubbish is that. I trust Cantona. LOL.
The biggest joke of it is that Balotelli contributed fuck all to their victory. I’m not going to deny that certain players on their team had a blinder (Yaya, Kompany spring to mind), but Balotelli played like a complete minge throughout, and then has the nerve to do something like that.
What a fruitcake.
Well done Rio and Ando. This has nothing to do with the colour of the skin, but Balotelli seems like a throwback to an age when man was still mostly a monkey. I guess that’s why he and Tevez get along well…
Oh and congrats on the daughter Rio!
Oh look everyone, Jon “The Cunting Troll” Phillips is back.
scott did gary neville not do the same ?????????
Despite the celebrations that resembled a world cup win, its still 35years fuck all
Don’t quite see why Rio acted so strongly myself, over-reaction after the game. If Balotelli wants to act a prick let him do it. We all know what and who he is:
http://blogpourhomme.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/mario-balotelli-hat.jpg
Hi Jon
I bet you are over the moon with your win of the century… At United we have bigger fish to fry and at shitty, I guess you need to spend another billion just to ensure a top 4 finish….
Pathetic
Jon Phillips – Fuck off you cunt.
Come on.
Take the defeat with our heads held high.
Next thread now Scott, preferably nothing about city.
I think if Roy Keane had seen that he would have watched it, with that calm, terrifying look in his eyes, and then next time he saw Balotelli on the field he’d have made him famous. Like he did Haaland.
Lovin’ United @ 14.05
Agree with you. We are better than this.
Focus on Tuesday.
Baloteelis issues run deeper than his skin colour. They guy is just a cunt, my only regret is that if Scholes wanted to hurt someone why not him?
At first when i saw Rio going at a blue player i thought don’t be such a bad looser, then i saw that it was that fucking twat cuntface Balotelli then i knew that rio was probably right to do so. Balotelli fuckin attentionwhore!
You can argue and say that neville kind of did the same thing but:
1. He did it after a goal and not after the wissle
2. He’s been at fuckin city for less then i year, Neville IS Manchester United and has beeninvolved in theese kind of derbys against Liverpool all of his life and know what that kind of match means.
Did balotelli do it because of his love for Man City or because his a cuntfaced Twat?,
” Let’s get some perspective. Today was City’s biggest game for over three decades. Today wasn’t even our biggest game this week. ”
Nuff Said..
United-Sthlm
‘ Let’s get some perspective. Today was City’s biggest game for over three decades. Today wasn’t even our biggest game this week. ”
Well said mate
I don’t think it’s fair to say that city game wasn’t our biggest game this week. But it’s time to move on, we have battles left….
Jon Phillips, you got a new asshole torn last time you where on here, fuck off you thick twat.
Cedars – That was Scott’s line in the quick reaction thread. So true.
end of the world? pffft it’s not even the end of the month.
Willie
In that case well said STR as well…..Did not read that thread
This whole racism shit is laughable. Proving tha they are Still stuck in 1976.
Hammons – They are hypocritical cunts mate. I’ve heard those bastards racially abuse their own players, now they have the fucking audacity to take that moral high ground.
Of course we are racist, Rio and Anderson are renown KKK members.
Thank you very much Rio and Ando. I love it when our players show team attitude and spirit.
Well done Rio and Ando.. Bellatoli is a cunt…
Now I am over the defeat of yesterday. I avoid coming to ROM when we get defeated as there are some proper shit heads coming to ROM that day.
Disappointed by the defeat but not because Shitty have a chance to win trophy, I don’t give a fuck about that. I was disappointed as FA Cup is a trophy which most of our players haven’t won yet. Anyways…
BTW Scousers to get a 2-1 win at Emirates today. If we win at Newcastle then we have wrapped the title for me as Spurs will aleast get a draw against Arsenal. It will give us some room to rest our players for CL semifinals.
Scousers will get hammered and I mean hammered.
Liverpool had a stone wall penalty denied early in the game. That’s two games in a row now Arsenal have gotten away with blatant penalty kicks after the nailed on penno the ref didn’t give for Blackpool. I wonder will this be remembered the next time some fucking idiot gooner comes out moaning about United getting all the decisions.
Don’t fancy Liverpool to hold out here. I’m sure they’ll gladly lose anyways, although they do look like they’re trying a bit harder than that absolute disgrace of a performance they put in against Chelsea last season.
disappointed to lose against city. this cup was the easiest of the three to win. we missed rooney more than city missed tevez. clearly berbatov is not reliable in big games and would love to see his back at the end of the summer. any way we are in a very good position to win the PL.
@kings: they don’t have any moral ground that was bought by the middle easteners
Balotelli is a huuuuuuuge TESTA DI CAZZO
Nil all half time. Dare we expect Liverpool to do us a favour? Not bloody likely.
Looks like Shitty is gonna play stoke. Not worried one bit. Stoke have a defence made of steel and apparently from this game they can attack too. 3-0 halftime lead over bolton. WOW.
Anyone else who was there notice how the city fans didnt sing AT ALL until they scored??
PS. I know im getting ahead of myself, but should we do Schalke and get through the CLF will the tickets be available through the usual channels?
Suarez is crap and so is Carrol, absolutely no way is that team capable of taking anything from the mighty Arsenal the hammering is only delayed for 45mins.
they where fucking useless mike
Its balotelli, anything this guy does, somehow doesnt surprise me.
Carragher just got injured by his own teamate. Being stretchered off…looks pretty serious. Oxygen, head cast….
Carragher eh aint Karma a bitch.
I’m sure he doesn’t know where he is. That looked a nasty one in the slo mo. You wouldn’t wish it on anyone.
Ya Carragher looks well fucked. Don’t like to see anyone get a serious head injury no matter who it is.
Anyone else notice the Old Trafford 02 banner at le arse? It really astounds me how smaller clubs don’t get bored of being obsessed with us
musca says:
i just cant imagine ballotelli has been linked to us at past times. i even havent seen he contributed anything spectacular to man city so far, fucking overrated player.
___Call him what you want but Balotelli is not over-rated for a 20 year old in his first season mate. Players don’t write the papers so lets keep it strictly football aye? Compare his stats for 2010/11. Macheda 19 yrs (2 goals in 26 games) Welbeck 20yrs (6 in 24) Balotelli 20 yrs (10 in 21) Hernandez 22 yrs (18 in 37) Diouf 23yrs (6 in 26). So out of our young players only Hernandez has a better record than Mario, and even then they practically have the same strike rates, although Hernandez plays alongside much better players. So darts and whatever other bollocks aside Balotelli really isn’t over-rated with 10 goals in 21 games, otherwise what does that make Welbeck?
Danny Welbeck is a class act and respectful. Two things that Mario isnt
Welbeck is not overpriced.
fuck u balotelli. mothrfuckn cunt fuckn shit sonnafabitch. fuckn dick cocksucker face.
love rio n ando stood up for the fans.
United for life
Another dive from Fabregas.
Fucks sake – this weekend is going for bad to worse for me!
The weekend goes from Shit to Roses.
Kuyit I do love you!!!!
Kyut!!!!!
FUCKING GET INNNNNNNNN!!!! DIRK KUYT THANK YOUUUUU SOOOO MUCH I LOVE YOU I FUCKING LOVE YOU MAN HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!! DIRK KUYT AND LIVERPOOL AND DALGLISH HAVE DONE IT AGAIN!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA THANK YOU SOOOOO MUCH HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
The ref totally bottled the game at the emirates. Total bottle up.
How in the world did Stoke put 5 past Bolton and we could only put 1 past them at OT? Strange. Oh well, Stoke City were known for their defensive prowess. Now they can score goals as well. Good luck to them at Wembley.
Say’s a lot for the Hex.
LOVE IT, BLOODY LOVE IT! My weekend was almost bloody ruined!!! We take 3 points at Newcastle and I wouldn’t give two hoots about yesterday!
@ Hammons – we’re in agreement then.
@ shubhangmanred – Berbatov is overpriced and Hernandez was underpriced. Players often have no say whatsoever in their transfer fees. My point is ON THE PITCH he’s not over-rated with 10 in 21 aged 20 in his first EPL season. In some objective quarters thats known as a “good player”, although for the record I rate Welbeck as a much better prospect than Mario.
You’ve all read Alex Ferguson’s wise words to Mario, and its safe to say our football boot kicking Manager has seen many a dart thrown in his life time.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1373604/Wayne-Rooney-Mario-Balotelli-grow-says-Alex-Ferguson.html
As for Rio and Anderson I heard a rumour Berbatov spat at Ando, but unless im mistaken it seems his only crime was winding our fans and players up. BESIDES it was Rio who publicly questioned citys team spirit before the match and it was Scholes in the press denying city were even “rivals”. We took the piss before the game, so after knocking us out the Cup their youngest player wanted the last laugh. If Scholes wasn’t hell bent on matching his red card in Europa for STUPIDITY im sure Balotelli would have winked at him as well. Thats what happens when you lose NASTY DERBYS. Get Over It.
TBH im more interesting in what OUR players do after the match, so I was glad to see a passionate response from Rio and Anderson, it made great viewing. We’ve got big games coming up and theres no time for feeling sorry for yourselves. You always want to see that from your Club, even David Platt got some from Rio. But at the end of the day BRAGGING RIGHTS go to the Victors. We’ll learn lessons from this and move on, we really didn’t do too much wrong yesterday, just lacking in the midfield on the day. Hate to say it but we missed Rooney’s industry in the middle. But if Ando started I think it would have ended differently.
@KOSE, I read on ESPN’s Live Cast that he got both penalty decisions right. I did not see the game so I can’t be sure what you’re talking about.
But I don’t fucking care. As I said yesterday on ROM, “We’ll have to see how Liverpool fare against Arsenal today. Everybody expects them to rollover but we can’t be so sure always.”
Right that makes it 6 points. I am about 75% sure that Arsenal will not get all 3 at Spurs. Spurs still want to get that 4th spot very badly and Arse will have to play out of their skin to get all 3 there. So, if we go about our business at Newcastle on Tuesday, then we can expect it to be 8 come Wednesday night which puts us in a pretty comfortable position. We’ll see how it goes.
Parryheid – You need to have more faith mate lol. There’s only one Dirk Kuyt!
@Balaji
The Arsenal penalty was definitely correct. The Liverpool one was also correct but it was a much softer decision and the credit really goes to the Liverpool player for going down very very easily.
The only contentious thing is that some may argue the referee should have blown his whistle for full-time IMMEDIATELY after the free-kick was taken and carromed off the wall bcoz time had well expired by the time the Liverpool penalty was given.
haha at Berbatov spitting at Ando, thats was a typo^ I meant Balotelli, I was too busy watching Arsenal BOTTLE it yet again. They haven’t looked like real title contenders for years, today was gonna be a draw no matter how many goals Arsenal scored.
Also, probably not popular to say but Kenny was SPOT ON after the match, turning the tables on the Sky asking them WHY THE FUCK are words between two managers after a match more important than the events on the pitch? Spot on, Sky are far too concerned with Shit Stirring for my liking. The media ask the managers the questions to get them sacked, and shove cameras in the players faces to get a response. More should be said about the role the media play in shaping the image of modern football. They need to be held to account, editing out players swearing instead of scapegoating them for it. Managers up and down the table get spoken to and treated like shit by the media week in week out, so it was QUALITY to see a EPL manager put a microphone carrying CUNT in his place. We don’t see that often enough.
There is a very good chance that Liverpool won’t play in Europe next season, not even the Europa League.
They are 4 points behind the 5th place spot having played 2 extra games.
The FA Cup final is going to be between City and Stoke and even if City win (ugghh!), most likely they will either get the Champions League spot or the automatic Europa League spot, so the 2nd Europa League spot would go to the finalist of the FA Cup i.e. Stoke City.
Birmingham City have the 3rd Europa League spot courtesy of winning the League Cup.
willierednut.
Plenty faith mate been Hexing them since yesterday And it worked.
That will do 4 me perked up a bleak weekend
lets do the geordies tuesday and were closing in on the magic number
onward and upwards
MUFC
@Balaji
Hi mate.I watched the game, I felt both penalties weren’t that strong. Though arsenal’s one had a stronger call. But what do I know. Im saying the ref bottled it up, cos he seemed to be drowning in the pressure towards the end of the game. I saw a latent reaction for the arsenal penalty, and clearly the kuyt penalty was over the time. There’ll be the question of why didn’t he stop play after suarez hit the free kick against the wall. But could have been the length of van persie’s celebration. Whatever it is, good result for us. Lets do it come tues!
I wait for the fa to ban Dalglish for 2 games after swearing at Wenger……Won’t hold my breath!!!!!
Is it just me but managers in the past have been sacked for less than Wenger,Rafa,Hughes,Carlo(Summer?),even Avram Grant…but London media don’t say anything to put him under pressure.
Ahh! Van der sar smashing the camera away when i tried to film Rio yelling at a city staff!
Way to go VDR!!!
Is it player of the year tonight or is that later on in the month?
Ballotelli will be dead before 30.
He`s too fucking stupid to survive.
You can guarentee he will use a hairdryer in the bath or something like that. Probably try cleaning the wax out of his ear with a gun like Chief Wiggum.
Darwinism always deals with Dickheads like Balotelli.
Jon Philips can’t even grasp how to make up a fucking sentence. Fuck off you daft cunt.
Hi darlings! Jon “the cunting troll” Phillips here. Sorry for late reply but had to scare some billy goats that were trotting across my bridge, then I had to take extra long in the toilet as I now have an extra asshole to wipe. Deary me. Anyways, one thing I cannot understand is………why are YaYa Toure’s ears horizontal at the top? Seriously, it’s like they’ve been cut by a pair of scissors. Weird.
Laters (winks).
Word X
Jon Phillips – Shame you didn’t get caught up in the fire on the M1 and died you fucking cunt. Fuck off you son of a bitch. Your mum actually winked at me whilst you was at the game, before proceeding to split her in two.
Thanks Kings; all the best to you too sir. Correct, she did wink at you whilst I was (yes, that is when you use the word ‘was’ – tut, tut, showing your IQ there me old china) at the game. And as for proceeding to split herself in two (that is what you meant isn’t it, I mean, that’s the way you wrote it?), I can’t work out why she did that. Odd, but still, I never could work her out.Thankfully we used the A1 on the way down so avoided dying in the fire (nice touch by the way). We also used the same route on the way back but this time to avoid the large obstruction in the road which was later identified as Rio Ferdinand’s dummy…
@Jon Phillip. I love Man United, & I love this site, even if I don’t comment on the topics. But u seem a stranger here, ur comments makes less sense & quite boring too. RoM won’t be fun if there ain’t ppl who’re as useful like the ‘ay’ in ‘okay’. So pls, behave!
Fucking shite. If Im not mistaken, Gary Neville celebrated and kissed the badge in front of the L’pool fans when Utd scored a late winner couple of seasons and he was charged and fined by the wankers from the FA. It was cited as provoking behaviour….in this instance why is there is no reaction to Balloshity antics. Fucking FA twats!
@THEFADOTCOM said they will not take any action on baloteli. FA is cunt
balotellis a twat, he doesnt love city and never will, thinks hes mightier than everyone but hes shit…fuck em
Shows Man U players risking their skins for the fans.. love it!!! balloteli is a fucking cunt, useless piece of shit player who is lucky Rio didn’t drill him a new one!!
I kinda like this Balotelli guy.. he provides good entertainment
What really happened with Balotelli…..
He asked Anderson for his girlfriends number because he said he wanted to “F**K her”. That was what the commotion with Anderson was about. Balotelli will get his rewards soon. He’s an accident waiting to happen – and it won’t be long before it does.
“I think if Roy Keane had seen that he would have watched it, with that calm, terrifying look in his eyes, and then next time he saw Balotelli on the field he’d have made him famous. Like he did Haaland.”
Love that!
I’m just pissed off Vidic didn’t get to him, He’d of fucking murdered him!
didnt Neville get done for celebrating a goal in front of the bin dippers? Doubt F.A will do much about this
United84 – DId you actually see RedNev RUN towards the Scousers after Rio scored? He was jumping and screaming, grabbing his badge, punching the air? LOL, it was priceless.
If we’re talking about players being banned for INCITEMENT then RedNev’s celebration was Legendary. Likewise, Adebayor got the same banned for destroying Arsenal and running the entire pitch to shit on the Gooners. But Balotelli? He didn’t do anything worth remembering after the match. He was already near our supporters at the end, so he grabbed his badge and punched the air at the final whistle, so what? Hardly worth a Ban is it? It WAS worth a response from our players, and thankfully he got one, but beyond that it was nothing. His team won, he’d earned the bragging rights on the day.
I just love how our players stuck up for their fans like they did, it kind of cheered me up from the loss at the end of the game – got me thinking – how many players do that for their fans?!
However; this whole “we are rascist for having a go” at Ballotelli made me laugh! If we are being rascist wouldn’t we be offending our own two players, Rio and Anderson as well?!
That all said, we didn’t have a great day and played like we couldn’t really give one about the fa cup that saturday! A bit disappointed, even more so because it was them, but we are favourite to win the league as we have gone way ahead!!, still in the semis of the champions league and are fairly confident we could get to the final – not a complete loss, hey! And congrats on the new baby girl rio!
Look at Van der Sar’s reaction at 0:51 to avoid Rio to get caught swearing!!! It’s awesome the way our players look after each other.
Look at Van der Sar’s reaction at 0:51 to avoid Rio to get caught swearing!!! It’s awesome the way our players look after each other.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FwCCMi8tos&feature=youtube_gdata_player