RossC93 Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 Take the Mario Balotelli fact-and-fiction quiz. I got six, which is pretty much the six I knew. The four I got wrong were guesses from options which were all entirely equally probable. Pretty good! 7/10 1, 2 & 6 incorrect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HEY_SIDNEY Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 9/10. GOT NUMBER 10 WRONG. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gc_smfc Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 10/10... I do read the Guardian sports pages every morning on my way to work or university to be fair Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nightmare Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 9/10. GOT NUMBER 10 WRONG. Same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sooky Posted December 27, 2011 Share Posted December 27, 2011 10 out of 10! I knew them all apart from number 10, which I just guessed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RB-Scotland Posted December 27, 2011 Share Posted December 27, 2011 10, knew them all. I want to go on Mastermind with him as my chosen subject. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Busta Nut Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/17325398#asset Guy is class Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RiG Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/17530883 What a boy Balotelli is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supras Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 My contribution at the start of this thread is fucking brilliant, read it perfectly. I actually used to be a good poster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dindeleux Posted March 31, 2012 Share Posted March 31, 2012 They should bring out a Face-Off two - with Mario playing himself in both rolls after todays performance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supras Posted March 31, 2012 Share Posted March 31, 2012 Yep 2 goals and Hansen still saying he is totally shit. Not that you've got an agenda or anything Alan. "One was a penalty!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Brightside Posted March 31, 2012 Share Posted March 31, 2012 TBH I don't really see that much wrong with what Balotelli did. Kolorov had already hit at least two and only hit the target with one that went straight to the goalie. Usually I don't mind Hansen, but the way he talks about Balotelli is absolutely despicable, he never gives him credit and only focuses on the negatives. I didn't see them going on about Wayne Rooney's antics when he was shagging grannies and prostitutes and "being a distraction" all while he was scoring. They also failed to mention the fact that he broke up Dzeko and Bardsley's fight. I'd much rather my players had a little spat amongst themselves than started fighting with the opposition as it's much harder to get sent off/booked for fighting with team-mates. Also, despite mentioning the fact that Johnson and Hennessey had a fight, they never mentioned the fact that he is the captain of Wolves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forehead7 Posted March 31, 2012 Share Posted March 31, 2012 Yeah, there's definitely a lot of people taking easy shots at Balotelli because he's a bit of a fuckwit and some of it's deserved but it's a bit too focused IMO. I don't think he gets enough praise from the media considering he's scored 27 in 55 for Man City(that's just off Wikipedia so I don't know how many subs but I'm betting a decent amount of those are off the bench). That's a cracking return for a 21 year old who's one of four top strikers at a club. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supras Posted April 2, 2012 Share Posted April 2, 2012 Did you know? Balotelli has scored a goal every 94 minutes this season, the best rate in the Premier League for all players who have played at least 1000 minutes. Thanks Garth. Pissing all over RvP and Rooney in the goals to minutes stakes. Fabulous player. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GingerSaint Posted April 2, 2012 Share Posted April 2, 2012 Papiss Demba Cisse has scored a goal every 71 minutes for Newcastle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supras Posted April 2, 2012 Share Posted April 2, 2012 Papiss Demba Cisse has scored a goal every 71 minutes for Newcastle. Has he played at least a 1000 minutes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GingerSaint Posted April 2, 2012 Share Posted April 2, 2012 Has he played at least a 1000 minutes? No. Still quite good though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaz Posted April 2, 2012 Share Posted April 2, 2012 It's a pretty decent stat, but how many were penalties? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaz Posted April 2, 2012 Share Posted April 2, 2012 Did you know? Balotelli has scored a goal every 94 minutes this season, the best rate in the Premier League for all players who have played at least 1000 minutes. Thanks Garth. Pissing all over RvP and Rooney in the goals to minutes stakes. Fabulous player. Hmm, I've done a bit of digging and those stats just don't add up. I suspect that what Crooks has done has went onto IMScouting and gotten them to do all the work for them. This has Mario Balotelli playing 1,221 minutes and scoring 13 goals, an average of one goal every 93.92 minutes. Because I'm bored this afternoon, first day of the Easter holidays and that, I've went through each Premier league game Balotelli's played in and how many minutes he featured in (according to Soccerbase): 10th September - Wigan, 18 minutes 24th September - Everton, 30 minutes 1st October - Blackburn, 88 minutes 15th October - Aston Villa, 90 minutes 23rd October - Man Utd, 70 minutes 29th October - Wolves, 19 minutes 5th November - QPR, 15 minutes 19th November - Newcastle, 69 minutes 27th November - Liverpool, 83 minutes 12th December - Chelsea, 90 minutes 18th December - Arsenal, 72 minutes 21st December - Stoke, 68 minutes 26th December - West Brom, 90 minutes 22nd January - Spurs, 25 minutes 25th February - Blackburn, 79 minutes 3rd March - Bolton, 90 minutes 11th March - Swansea, 90 minutes 21st March - Chelsea, 45 minutes 24th March - Stoke, 90 minutes 31st March - Sunderland, 90 minutes I make that a total of 1,329 minutes and not the 1,221 minutes that IMScouting claim, taking his goals-per-minute ratio to one goal every 102.23 minutes. This would actually put him behind Van Persie - although I accept that IMScouting may have made the same minutes error for Van Persie. A couple of things to note are that this doesn't take into account injury time, which can typically add 1-4 minutes onto each match in which a player makes it to half-time or full-time, and that Balotelli has scored three penalties to Van Persie's one. EDIT: Don't get me wrong, I like Balotelli and it's a decent stat, but claiming he's pissing all over Van Persie and Rooney is a bit wide of the mark. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supras Posted April 2, 2012 Share Posted April 2, 2012 EDIT: Don't get me wrong, I like Balotelli and it's a decent stat, but claiming he's pissing all over Van Persie and Rooney is a bit wide of the mark. Well, he is beating them though in the opinion of BBC expert Garth Crooks. I'm not really going to check any of your figures though, you might have got it wrong but, equally, so might they. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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