Balotelli - I'm not mad

Mario Balotelli has scarcely been in the Premier League for 18
months but has already managed to set fire to his own house, throw
darts at a team-mate, visit a women's prison and engage in a
running battle with Manchester's traffic wardens, but the
Manchester City striker yesterday insisted he was not "mad". He
did, though, concede that he does some "strange" things.

"I am not mad, not at all, even if sometimes I do things that
are a bit strange," he said on international duty in Italy.
Instead, he believes it is the English media who have ensured his
off-field misdemeanours attract more attention than his on-field
achievements. "They tend to talk more about my private life than
what I do on the pitch," he said.

"This is normal, but I get tired of it. And if I did not do the
things I do, I would be bored. English newspapers like The Sun are
worse than the Italian ones. A newspaper that puts naked ladies on
the front cover strikes me as being particularly ugly.

"For now, though, I am happy with City. If the time is right in
the future, though, I would return to Inter, but I like AC Milan
and will not hide that."


Some trashy papers will spin this story until it bends over backwards and upside down.


Yes he says he's interested to go back to Italy in the future but he's only 21 or so and he has many more years left at city.