What is trending in football today

Both Mario Balotelli and Andy Carroll are taking up most of web space today with news of them falling out with a team mate and a manager respectively.

Mario is married to the media. With a lazy snap of his index and thumb fingers, he can start trending just like that across the web. Tabloids that pay gossip-hungry-sorry-excuse-for-a-football-journalists to bite into hot news stories swiftly go into overdrive at the slightest whispers of his name.

A month back both Mario and Yaya were on the same page – accused Porto fans of making racist gestures – and this week they are at each other’s throats.

I have lost count of how many times Mancini had called Mario, as not to be trusted with, which makes you wonder if Mario is barking up the wrong tree.

Moving on, Andy Carroll was clearly not amused after being subbed for Kuyt against his former club, Newcastle this Sunday. He made his feelings for club manger Kenny Dalglish very clear after he was seen mouthing the words “Fucking joke” before disappearing into the tunnel.

If you try to put a price on the Carroll’s ego, I am sure it would be higher than his current price tag. Accusing a manager who has backed you publicly of poor tactics is the last thing you would want to do in football. Unless you are Carlos Tevez and you are managed by a Italian with a Pinocchio nose.

Also in the same match Carroll was accused of diving while trying to get past an on-rushing Tim Krul. However, I felt Pepe Reina tried to grab the referee’s attention by going down for a perceived challenge by James Perch.With seven minutes left and with the match pretty much out of Liverpool‘s hand, Pepe felt the need to do a Zizou in retaliation and his missed head-butt was improvised by Perch as he went down easily without any help from the prompter.

And now for some Arsenal news… Yann M’Vila is the latest player after Lukas Podolski to leave Arsenal fans in a state of purgatory after dropping hints in the media: ‘If the coach calls you and tells you he wants you to make you play, especially a French coach, it changes everything.’

In other news, Chelsea defender David Luiz had a hair cut yesterday, and the Blue’s fans who purchased the Luiz wigs from the memorabilia store at the Bridge, are having a fit as we speak.

Somebody in my timeline has retweeted Juan Mata’s pic of ‘Sunset in London’. While I was browsing some of his tweets…I came across his tweet from 12th March.

Oddly nobody has replied to his tweet that it was a FA cup tie and Birmingham is still in the Championship and not the Premier League. KTBH.

While the rest of Manchester wait for April 30th, twitter’s photoshoppist (I fucking don’t know what the correct terminology is) BeardedGenius has come up with a Anderson career graph with a few clicks of the mouse.

I cut my hair today!

— David Luiz (@DavidLuiz_4) April 1, 2012

We take 3 important points from Birmingham and a picture with the great @cuellar24 #cfc yfrog.com/h6iefybj

— Juan Mata García (@juanmata10) March 31, 2012