ECHO Comment: "Fears of Witch-hunt Against Liverpool FC"

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' Tomorrow will see the start of a new chapter '

I read this with the image of some lad pacing back and forth, reading from a book in one hand, gesturing with the other to his kopite followers; pausing after each sentence. The followers nodding and clapping in agreement.

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http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2014/oct/23/brendan-rodgers-mario-balotelli-liverpool
Which brings us to the broader point. What did Rodgers really expect to happen here? Balotelli is often described as unpredictable. He isn’t. He’s entirely predictable. Predictably enigmatic, predictably unpredictable, predictably troubled. This is a player who, while he was at Internazionale, had to be ordered to stop wearing a Milan shirt around the city, having apparently failed to grasp that this would annoy some fans. To rail against this otherworldliness, to adopt a posture of shocked surprise that Mario – no, not Mario – has done something silly or drifted grandly to the fringes at just the wrong moment is a bit like buying a papier mâché top hat and then becoming inconsolably enraged when it fails to keep the rain off.
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Rodgers has an excellent record in improving attacking talent and perhaps he can still engage profitably with his listing No9. But for now, blaming Mario for being Mario – having signed Mario in the full knowledge that Mario is Mario – is unlikely to lead anywhere profitable.
 
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