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21st Jul 2015

Mario Balotelli’s congratulations to Sterling went down like a lead balloon with Liverpool fans

Who could have guessed?

Darragh Murphy

Was he being nice, inflammatory or just plain stupid?

Always difficult to tell when you’re dealing with a character as complex as Mario Balotelli.

The Liverpool striker took to Twitter today to congratulate former teammate Raheem Sterling on his first goal for new club Manchester City.

mario

And it went down about as well as an Alex Ferguson Celebration Parade on Merseyside.

And yet the Tweet remains undeleted.

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