Balotelli Has A Hissie Fit

I know how talented Mario Balotelli but what I didn't know was how bloody immature the guy was. During Inter's game with Palermo, the immature Italian worked a bit of magic in the box to win his side a penalty. After that, the fun and games began.

Balotelli wanted to take the penalty himself but fellow Inter stiker Samuel Eto'o had other ideas. Before I carry on I just want to say, Balotelli didn't have the backing of his team-mates at this point.

So as you do when your team has a penalty, Balotelli, wearing his big, huge, massive neckwarmer stood infront of the ball to prevent the penalty from being taken. There was no chance of Balotelli moving so it was up to captain Javier Zanetti to play Mummy.

He grabbed Balotelli by the hand and dragged him away from the ball as if to say: " Get out of the way, you naughty little boy."

After Balotelli had stopped sulking like a five year old, he went on to score two goals for Inter in the 5-3 demolition of Palermo.

Don't you just love it when children's stories have happy endings.

Oh Marlon, Marlon, Marlon

Today, Marlon 'Do You Know Who I Am Bruv' King was found guilty of both sexual assault and causing actual bodily harm for groping a girl and then breaking her nose. He clearly doesn't take rejection very well.

So Marlon fought the law and the law won. Fool.

18 months hard time, registration on the sex offender’s list and a swiftly cancelled contract by Wigan Athletic potentially ending his career. Divee.

King was at the bar that night celebrating…wait for it…his wife’s pregnancy.
He was celebrating two occasions – his wife’s latest pregnancy and the scoring of a winning goal – with a night out in the West End.
King was repeatedly “cold-shouldered” by women in the bar, the court heard, and lost his temper. Idiot.

Hopefully, this act of stupidity will nominate Marlon for the biggest scumbag alive.

The Golden Foot Award

Ever heard of it? No, me neither until this afternoon when I read it on an unamed football website that Ronaldinho had won the 2009 edition.

So as you do I did some research into what it's all about. Random is what it is, but also kind of interesting.

It's a career award that is awarded to players over the age of 29. It's not based on recent form like the FIFA World Footballer of the Year or Ballon d'Or awards. According to this website's explanation: “The winner is chosen out of a ten nominees list decided by a jury consisting of the Golden Foot media partners representatives and of the fans from all over the world who give their preferential vote through the official site.”

Ronaldinho beat Thierry Henry, Raul, Steven Gerrard, Gigi Buffon, Luis Figo, Franceso Totti, David Trezeguet...Oh and David Beckham, how could I forget him?

The goofy Brazillian now gets to leave his footprint on The Champions Promenade in Monte Carlo, a sort of walk of fame of past winners (the award has been given out since 2003) and also the “legends” that are invited to add their footprint to the Promenade each year.

Once you have won the award, you can't win it again which is a bit of a bummer. But anyway, well done Ronnie.

Alcorcon 4-0 Real Madrid

Let's be honest, the Mickey Mouse competition of Spanish football (Copa Del Ray) doesn't really interest us British fans. But last night produced one of the biggest shocks of the season.

When the likes of Athletico Madrid and Sevilla were comfortabaly winning their games, the muliti-millionaire wasters of Real Madrid were getting a pasting by the minnows who apply their trade in the Segunda Division B-Group 2.

Real Union knocked out Madrid in last season's competition and the thought of that happening again was...well i didn't think it would happen. But.........

One...two...three...four. With four swift hacks at the Real Madrid goal (and hopeless Madrid defending) the third division side found themselves in dreamland.

They got the win, they scored four goals and they didn't concede an away goal. What more could they have hoped for? Maybe one or two more goals but that would be pushing it.

Perhaps the most astononishing anouncement came five minutes from time and the announcement of Man of The Match. To rub salt into the wound, Jerzy Dudek was selected. I'm sure he was none too pleased with that.

So, for Real Madrid, absolute humiliation. For us, proof that money means nothing and for Alcorcon, the game of their lives. Congratulations