I do quite like super eccentric/crazy footballers, one of which is Mario Balotelli (who I badly photoshopped onto the original Super Mario), his recent comments just showing the eccentricity of the young Italian.
The first thing that made me laugh: he wants to play for AC Milan, which is a crazy thing to say, firstly as he come from Inter, their arch-rivals (no normal AC player would EVER play for Inter unless serious money was involved) and secondly, he's only just been transferred to Man City.
Secondly, and more seriously this time, he has a serious ego problem. Balotelli considers himself on second best to Messi in the world: so in other words, Balotelli considers himself better than Ronaldo, Forlan, Ibrahimovic and any other world class striker you can think of. Do you think it's possible that when he made the comment, he forgot about all the other world class players and was instead dreaming that he played for some Second Division team and Messi was the only other good player out there. Let's face it Mario, even Wayne Rooney is better than you, and that's really saying something (Rooney playing rubbish at the moment).
Finally, Balotelli has revealed he is NOT the person you would want to have on your side if you had to to a pub quiz about football. To Mario, Jack Wilshere, arguably the greatest hope England has for 2012 and 2018, is Jack Who? This is quite serious and really, the least you expect of a footballer is that he at least knows one of the top 3 best young players in the country.
But again, Balotelli is like Cantona, the only disappointment being that when he learns English and eventually karate kicks a supporter, you don't really expect him to come out with a statement like "When seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea" but something more like "300 grand a week or I'm off back to Italy".
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