and in the World Cup?.......
At the end of the day, Man City can do what they want. They feel so aggrieved and targeted at the moment, and will contest and appeal the decision purely based on those reasons. They honestly do not care, if he gets 3 games, or 4 games. They have many players who play in front of Balotelli, and many players to cover, no problem.
Balotelli is a controlled puppet, to the point where people (especially Man City fans) are made to love him, for reasons they really morally shouldn't. He doesn't do things because "that's him" he does things because he clearly thinks life's a joke and is told to do it and behave in a certain way. On and off the football pitch. It's just not normal.
He is NOTHING like Eric Cantona.
I don't think he is particularly good at football at all, he is just benefiting and getting a huge push from the world class players around him. All he has to do is stand there, and shoot.
Funny that it didn't happen at Inter Milan with him being "so great", young and Italian, playing for the champions in Italy. Under the same manager for a lot of the time, in Mancini.
Many people say (and I agree) that Balotelli is more trouble than he is worth. This does not and will not apply to Man City though.
If Balotelli was with us (and god, please don't ever make that happen!) we would probably HAVE to take the 3 games. He could be out for the season and Man City wouldn't really give a toss, although they wouldn't make that out to the press and media.
The fact is Balotelli deserves to be punished as does Lescott.
