Get your act together, Mancini warns Balotelli

Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini has told mercurial striker Mario Balotelli he must improve his attitude.

Balotelli did not even make the bench for last Sunday’s Premier League defeat of Tottenham after disappointing Mancini with his training-ground performances in the preceding days.

It later emerged the 22-year-old had been in a nightclub until the early hours of Sunday morning, but Mancini had already informed his fellow Italian he was dropped and so no curfew was broken.