Balotelli Appreciation

[wub]

Did your mum send you to John Lewis for an ironing board and you came back with a quad bike, a Scalectrix and a tennis table?
"Yes. But not a tennis table, it was a trampoline."

[Dead Rats]

Yep, I'll join this thread. He's a legend on so many levels, but it's a serious roll of the dice even putting the fucker on the field.

[Forum]

Did your mum send you to John Lewis for an ironing board and you came back with a quad bike, a Scalectrix and a tennis table?
"Yes. But not a tennis table, it was a trampoline."

My favorite part of that story.... he forgot to buy the ironing board

[scspkr99]

Magnificently mental

[Lucifa]

[Dead Rats]

yeah I thought the bully thing was confirmed to be untrue.

Awwww...

Did you give a tramp £1,000 after winning in the casino?
"Never"

Is it true a young lad turned up at the training ground asking for your autograph and, when asked why he wasn't at school, he said he was being bullied, so you took him to school and spoke to the headmaster?
"No. It's not true I took him to school. I tell him why he wasn't at school but not took him to school."

Did your mum send you to John Lewis for an ironing board and you came back with a quad bike, a Scalectrix and a tennis table?
"Yes. But not a tennis table, it was a trampoline."

Are you allergic to a specific kind of grass?
"I'm allergic to the dry grass, not the green one, the brown one."

Did you go to church on Xmas Eve and put £1,000 in the collection plate?
"I put some money in but not a thousand."

Did you go to the pub in Wythenshawe and buy everyone a drink?
"No"

Did you go to a petrol station and pay for everyone's petrol?
"No, not true."

Did you drive around Manchester dressed as Santa handing out money?
"No."

The "because I'm rich" one reminds me of a Jack Nicholson story... apparently Jack was in a restaurant in NYC just after the smoking ban came in. Dude finishes his meal and lights up a massive cigar at which point a waiter comes over and reminds him of the smoking ban... Jack tells him to get lost. Waiter comes back telling him that the police will be called if he carries on smoking:

"How much is the fine?"
"$5000" (or something)
*pulls $5k out of wallet, hands it to waiter* "Now, fuck off and let me smoke in peace".

No doubt it's been embellished over time, but I want it to be true.

This doesn't really seem to have any legendary status to me, though, just seems like he was being a dickhead.

[PinUp]

Setting off fireworks from his kitchen/bathroom and the fire brigade being called

I heard he was the face of a firework safety campaign at the time as well

[murky21]

[Johnlenham]

dp

[Johnlenham]

Setting off fireworks from his kitchen/bathroom and the fire brigade being called

I heard he was the face of a firework safety campaign at the time as well

I heard that the otherday , cant for the life of me remember who said it to me though.

[wub]

Setting off fireworks from his kitchen/bathroom and the fire brigade being called

I heard he was the face of a firework safety campaign at the time as well

I heard that the otherday , cant for the life of me remember who said it to me though.

[Forum]

[herbs]

ALREADY A LEGEND.

[AxeD]

when a postman delivers letters, does he take his shirt off and pose for the camera's??

poor man's Cantona.

(he is a bit of a Gtho tbf)

This.
Many is a bowser, but I don't believe half the stories about him.

[noam]

he got fined by City for throwing Darts at the youth team players.

semi-legend, but mainly a tnuc

though im sure if he stubbed a cigar out on a team mates eye that the papers would find a way to love it

[teamhobson]

Some of the shit he's done is sound as fuck. But the whole do what I want attitude is shite...

[HamCrescendo]

good to have some "characters" in the PL again, though its a thin line between that and being a tnuc.

Jens was the last I can think of

[bassrael]

great guy, great 2nd goal. let´s hope he scores in the final, too. If not it´s gonna be a bloody boring game imo.

[Forum]

Jens was the last I can think of

Who could forget

[vishes]

Great thread I had never heard any of these stories hahah.