Manchester City striker Mario Balotelli has been charged with violent conduct by the FA and faces a four-match ban after appearing to stamp on Tottenham's Scott Parker during Sunday's 3-2 win at Eastlands.Balotelli, who had already received a yellow card, escaped sanction for treading on Parker's head and went on to score the 94th minute penalty that decided the game, prompting a furious reaction from Tottenham boss Harry Redknapp, who felt Balotelli should not have been on the pitch to score the winner.

"I don't like people kicking other people in the head on a football pitch,'' Redknapp said after the game. "It is not something I understand. Why should he go and back-heel someone in the head when he is on the floor?''

Balotelli has until 18.00 GMT on Wednesday to respond to the FA charge. If he accepts the allegation, the 21-year-old will miss the Carling Cup semi-final second leg against Liverpool at Anfield.

However, should the Italy international decide to appeal he will be free to face the Merseyside giants, with a hearing taking place later this week.

An FA statement read: "The FA has today charged Manchester City forward Mario Balotelli with violent conduct following an incident in his side's home game against Tottenham Hotspur.

"Balotelli was involved in an incident with Tottenham's Scott Parker during Manchester City's 3-2 victory at the Etihad Stadium on Sunday 22 January 2012.

"Balotelli has until 6pm on Wednesday 25 January 2012 to respond to the charge.''

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he no go better for english F.A and mancheater united , they are doing everything possible to make sure city didnt win this title , is it a must that united win ? am tired for tthese people jare . how many times paul scholes did exactly what balotelli did , without any sanction ? if only i can send Boko haram to these people

Abeg make una leave my SUPER MARIO alone joooooooooooorrrrrr

sharaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaap,did he or did he commit the offence he is being charged. LEAVE MANCHESTER UNITED OUT OF THIS AND TELL MANCHESTER CITY TO TAME THE EDIOT CALLED BALOTELLI  BALOFOOLISH  

ololo12:

Abeg make una leave my SUPER MARIO alone joooooooooooorrrrrr

birds of the same feathers _{hisses and walks away}

Dat guy is more like an area boy or beta still an agbero with dat his moronic hair cut. Mtcheeeeewwwww

fredoooooo:

he no go better for english F.A and mancheater united , they are doing everything possible to make sure city didnt win this title , is it a must that united win ? am tired for tthese people jare . how many times paul scholes did exactly what balotelli did , without any sanction ? if only i can send Boko haram to these people  

Shut up your filthy mouth. When did you start watching football? I watched my first Man U vs Man City derby in 1984. How old were you then?

Some of you who just started watching ball the other day will just open your traps and be talking rubbish! What Balotelli did is absolutely reprehensible! How on earth can you be linking it to Man United?

Balotellis an impetous bast.ard who has no business playing football. He should locate his mates in the MMA arenas.

@ Iya Ngbali, Whatever duuuuuuuuu, What good can come out from all this good for nothing Man Utd fans. Make una carry league make we see, Na jealousy go kill una,


SUPER MARIO ALL THE WAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ololo12:

@ Iya Ngbali, Whatever duuuuuuuuu, What good can come out from all this good for nothing Man Utd fans. Make una carry league make we see, Na jealousy go kill una,


SUPER MARIO ALL THE WAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

area boy on the loose

stagger:

Shut up your filthy mouth. When did you start watching football? I watched my first Man U vs Man City derby in 1984. How old were you then?

Some of you who just started watching ball the other day will just open your traps and be talking rubbish! What Balotelli did is absolutely reprehensible! How on earth can you be linking it to Man United?

Balotellis an impetous bast.ard who has no business playing football. He should locate his mates in the MMA arenas.

oga ade ITS NOT HOW FAR , BUT HOW WELL  .1984 all those time , they wore pant to play soccer , what has tactics got to do with soccer then , how many team play a very good tactical game , is everything then not all about technics and runnings ?if you want to challenge me on how good football is been play and have fun with soccer , am all here for you .but if you want to rant and insult, my simple advice to you please dont quote me , just read and make your  comment , Ok ? , buona notte  

ololo12:

@ Iya Ngbali, Whatever duuuuuuuuu,  What good can come out from all this good for nothing Man Utd fans.  Make una carry league make we see,  Na jealousy go kill una,


SUPER MARIO ALL THE WAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

An agbero will always support and agberoish act,  

Man United will surely win the league, u can hug the transformer when it happens cos as for me,i will be popping bottles,

fredoooo shut up ur dirty smelling mouth. i can see that ur high on fake drugs hw could u be so biased to the extent of writing such nonsense. Are u blind 2 d extent u didn't c dat incident abi na 4 back of TV u dey watch ur own ball.call a spade a spade & not a farmin tool. Wat is bad is bad. What if it was ur own player. Hw wud u feel. If ur beefin man utd open a new topic & we'll clear our doubts. I'm sure ur team will neva catch man u, even if i lose 3 straight matches.
In fact, UR MYOPIC IN REASONING:

scholes23:

fredoooo shut up ur dirty smelling mouth. i can see that ur high on fake drugs hw could u be so biased to the extent of writing such nonsense. Are u blind 2 d extent u didn't c dat incident abi na 4 back of TV u dey watch ur own ball.call a spade a spade & not a farmin tool. Wat is bad is bad. What if it was ur own player. Hw wud u feel. If ur beefin man utd open a new topic & we'll clear our doubts. I'm sure ur team will neva catch man u, even if i lose 3 straight matches.
In fact, UR MYOPIC IN REASONING:

Freedo needs to go to Eniola Naturalist care make dem give am something to wash his eyes. And the Balotelli monkey come dey claim innocent. I even thought he was a hard man. Guys like Marcel Desailly go hack you, collect the red card and march out like men.

That Ghanaian monkey wey dey claim Italian come dey even fall like say na train quack am! Nonsense!

@ Iya Ngbali, Ifysoft, Na your firo famsi be agbero,

all u haters of man u, if u lyk dont think of hw ur teams will win dis title. If man u cant win it, ur teams 'll neva smell it, they'll neva go 4 premier league. In short i challenge u, if ur teams win d league, my dog will start playin professional football in england

scholes23:

all u haters of man u, if u lyk dont think of hw ur teams will win dis title. If man u cant win it, ur teams 'll neva smell it, they'll neva go 4 premier league. In short i challenge u, if ur teams win d league, my dog will start playin professional football in england

scholly dont worry , typical united fan , you will know the truth and still say otherwise , how many times united players did these stuffs and later got sanctioned ? rooney , scholy (great player) , roy kean etc did stuffs like this and still nothing happen ? am not in support of what ballotelli did , all am saying is that the F.A UNITED are too onesided , its too obvious , whats good for the goose also the gander ,
for my team you are talking about i support shooting stars ibadan    , from my comment you can see that am just a football fan , love to see good football and say things as i see it , not like a one sided die hard fans like you 

just check out the names,freedooo & ololo. Sounds lyk d name of an agbero. These boys should be hawkin yoghurt in oshodi mkt. Hahahahahaha.
Stagger i dey ur side, anybody wey e dey pain , make e go hug transformer or barb Soyinka Hair

freedoo, if u get mind tell us ur team make we start 2 dey clear ourselves, or are u scared or ashamesd of ur club?

BaD bOi oF PreMieRsHiP,l KinDA liKE hiM***sHa! He's oNe oF mY fAvoUrItes***

Oga stagger u no be small pesin u don old oh imagin watching Man u vs Man city at 1984 when they never born me how old was u then @topic what Balotelli did was bad and should nt be supported by any right thinking person

But for the mercy of God that lunatic would have killed gentleman parker!

I'm utterly dissapointed in Aguero and Richards for celebrating his goal with him!

How I wish the orangutan can be sent to the gallows!

that doesn't stop man city from winning the premiership league this season

team MARIO all the way!!   

excuse me while i go pick up some passengers.

British FA is made of hypocrites. We all knew it will be like this if City continue winning. From the 4 match ban to Vincent Kompany for a fair challenge that didnt even warrant yellow card, to this. I watch the replay many times and it is not conclusive. Mario looked like he was trying to get his balance. He couldnt look back to see that Scotty Parker was there. I am an Arsenal fan, but this blatant hypocrisy by English FA is a joke.

ola_pluto:

British FA is made of hypocrites. We all knew it will be like this if City continue winning. From the 4 match ban to Vincent Kompany for a fair challenge that didnt even warrant yellow card, to this. I watch the replay many times and it is not conclusive. Mario looked like he was trying to get his balance. He couldnt look back to see that Scotty Parker was there. I am an Arsenal fan, but this blatant hypocrisy by English FA is a joke.

you are a disgrace to even bring this up. . . .

how can you say mario was trying to get his balance. . . .if he was getting his balance, the force he applied to put his foot down was way over the top.
he knew what he was doing. he got a 4-match ban because the referee said he didn't see the incident when it happened and he said if he had seen it, he would have given him a straight red for violent conduct.



whoever thinks balotelli isn't guilty of violent conduct after watching that must have been born a fool or pretending to be a fool!

@ola_pluto If you did watch it as you said you could have seen it very well to know that stupid boy Balotteli deliberately did what he did because he has almost away from Parker and then look back to kick Parker . he look back to make sure he doesn't miss his target . Any reasonable person cant support this guy Balotteli on this issue because what did was far from fair play . He is very wicked and don't have any regard for his Coach . why must he always on front page for bad attitude . is he only player in English league . they should give him 10 match ban , idiot of no respect .

Make dem ban am joo. Hopefully he won't play against Liverpool on Wednesday.

That way the reds can reach carling cup final

You Will Never Walk alone

Honestly I think Balotelli is a marked man. Whatever he does gets scrutinised.
Vs man Utd when he showed his undershirt of "Why always me" he received a yellow, This is a gesture lots of players do regularly even When Van Persie did the same thing yesterday he wasnt booked

dayokanu:

Honestly I think Balotelli is a marked man. Whatever he does gets scrutinised.
Vs man Utd when he showed his undershirt of "Why always me" he received a yellow, This is a gesture lots of players do regularly even When Van Persie did the same thing yesterday he wasnt booked

so balotelli was the first premier league player to be given a yellow card for showing his under-shirt?
the cobwebs in your brain have amassed copiously. i thought every football fan knows the rules but dayonazi wouldn't.
it's a bookable offence to show under-shirts when celebrating goals. . . . .you are robbing the shirt sponsors off their kodak moments.

tamir cohen of bolton got a yellow card last season for paying tributes to his late dad. . . .

but let's cook up conspiracy theories to sound bright. dayonazi is on a roll.

Why didnt van persie get one yesterday?

Cohen took the shirt off completely balotelli didnt

dayokanu:

Why didnt van persie get one yesterday?

Cohen took the shirt off completely balotelli didnt

blame the ref for incompetence, don't blame the system for bias!
it does not matter of the shirt is taken off or lifted over the head. . . some referees overlook the half-removal and some referees still punish it.

fifa rules(after 2002 world cup) prohibit revealing t-shirts which contain some kind of message directed to the spectators.
so there you go. . . .

Still doesn't change the fact that they got 3points off tottenham. F.A should stop all these medicine after death actions jor

To mario balottelli: why always manchecter united Glory glory red army,