His off the field behaviour has improved vastly

Putting the social media mishap earlier in the season to one side – which is fifty shades of ironic given the football authorities act over with more gusto over an ill-judged tweet than the chants directed at black players – Balotelli has courted far less controversy this season.

Unfortunately for him, he is a colourful character and is someone the fans love to keep up with off the field and is finally starting to understand that he will be photographed wherever he goes and needs to be on his best behaviour 110% of the time or end up in the back pages and that shows a real change in the player.

Frankly actual football fans couldn’t care less what he does with his love life off the field as long as he shows up on it but the tabloids will print anything they can and that, if nothing else, is no fault of his own.