Balotelli II

Actually, I've been meaning to post this:
One of my bosses at work takes his son to as many Man City games as they can manage (as well as having season tickets at the MK Dons).
I was out with him last week at a charity presentation and we were talking football. He said there was no reaction at all at the ground to the Balotelli incident and listening to the radio on the way home they wondered what all the fuss was about. Then they saw it on TV and completely understood. He's inclined to think it was accidental. I'm inclined to disagree but I won't because I quite like my job......

Bedshammer wrote:Actually, I've been meaning to post this:
One of my bosses at work takes his son to as many Man City games as they can manage (as well as having season tickets at the MK Dons).
I was out with him last week at a charity presentation and we were talking football. He said there was no reaction at all at the ground to the Balotelli incident and listening to the radio on the way home they wondered what all the fuss was about. Then they saw it on TV and completely understood. He's inclined to think it was accidental. I'm inclined to disagree but I won't because I quite like my job......

Excellent point

Well JPR has misgivings about trial by TV. Surprising really that he was so passionate about Ballotellis actions last week, yet now thinks it is wrong because his teams star player is shown doing thuggery of another kind

Very similar, int that both incidents were missed during play but picked up by the camera.

villanfromluton wrote:Well JPR has misgivings about trial by TV. Surprising really that he was so passionate about Ballotellis actions last week, yet now thinks it is wrong because his teams star player is shown doing thuggery of another kind

I've always thought it wrong that TV can highlight stuff which the FA react to. If every single match was televised and the same attention given to every single team it would be fair, but it isn't. It's the so-called big clubs who receive all the attention. Vieira used to get the attention because when he was fouling someone he was Johnny-Foreigner taking advantage - it didn't matter that the Brothers Neville plus Nicky Butt were regularly cleaning players out at Old Trafford. Now we're focussing on ManC - it doesn't matter that Jim Smith in Divison II is regularly taking people out knee-high - no, look, there's that New-Rich-Kid-On-The-Block Balotelli who's kicking people in the head or, if you prefer, that nasty Dutch striker van Persie who's using his elbows - here, on TV nation-wide! It can't be right but when you see it it's not a pretty sight - is it?

So last week the FA were right to charge Balotteli judging from your comments of last week (which I agree with by the way), but this week it is wrong. This is funny

villanfromluton wrote:So last week the FA were right to charge Balotteli judging from your comments of last week (which I agree with by the way), but this week it is wrong. This is funny

Is it because Balotelli is black????? that's it, JPR is a scouser!!!!!!!

Possibly. Or maybe it's because Balotelli claimed that he didn't know who his beloved Jack Wilshire was.

He hasn't even seen the Balotelli incident.