When you’re covering a football match in which you don’t know too much about the two teams and don’t really have any preference who wins, the thing you want more than anything is a decent contest.

Since arriving at Eastlands Phil Taylor wannabe Mario Balotelli has put forward a great case for starting a stretch at Lancaster Farms Young Offenders Institution let alone making the starting line up for Manchester City.

Most people will be thinking of bright lights of the premier league upon reading that title, and quite rightly so to be fair. Will it be Manchester United’s second half destruction of West Ham United, or Roy Hodgson getting one over on his old club and guiding his West Brom team to a victory over Liverpool, Newcastle hammering Wolves or even in the championship with Norwich battering Scunthorpe?

Arsenal’s 0-0 draw against Blackburn was a fine example of well… Arsenal in general. The Gunners may play undeniably the best football in the premiership, but when it comes to end product they just seem to be lacking.

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Twelve games into Balotelli’s debut English season has gifted City with six goals but with a disciplinary record to rival that of Roy Keane and Patrick Vieira (nine yellows and two reds) patience with players and fans for the feisty Italian may be wearing thinner than ever before.

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