10 footballers and the gifts they would want from Santa Claus
Santa Claus may be make-believe, but ours is a race of believers. And while portly Mr. White-Beard may not visit your chimney, there's always a magnanimous Yaya Toure with his pointy hat and his bountiful booty, happy to don the role.Now that we've found our men to deliver these presents, let's look at their recipients. Below are the 10 players who are probably looking towards the North Pole (or the blue side of Manchester) for their Christmas presents.
#1 Mario Balotelli - The One Ring
While obscurity is a bane to most, it is a blessing in disguise that Mario Balotelli should pray for this Christmas. There would be no better way for Liverpool’s outcast to sort himself out than beinh veiled by invisibility – so acute is his case of media-sickness.
The dynamic striker is no stranger to attention. In fact, the man that walks a lonely road in Anfield today is hardly the carefree target-man that Brendan Rogers paid £16 million for. And that can’t be pinned solely on poor form. The paparazzi haven’t made life any easier for Balotelli either, what with them constantly focussing the spotlight on him. Not to absolve him of his inept performances, but the unyielding scrutiny has surely compounded the Italian’s problems.
The cantankerous Liverpudlian is no stranger to controversy either. In fact, Balotelli’s latest antics involves purported racism – all while he’s supposed to be endorsing racial acceptance. That’s like the pot calling the kettle black (and Hebrew). Balotelli hasn’t made his life any easier, what with his nose for trouble. That doesn’t mean the media can be acquitted of the charge of publicising his infringements, but the enfant terrible can’t keep from shooting himself in the foot time and time again.
Therefore, that presents Balotelli with two solutions.
Realistic Solution: He must set out on his quest to free himself of the ever-watchful, lidless Eye through Middle Earth, in pursuit of the One Ring. Or he can pray that Santa present him the One Ring through the chimney.
Unrealistic Solution: Reform himself.
