The National’s Sport cover for the Tuesday, March 24 issue, features “lost boys” Mario Balotelli and Radamel Falcao.
Richard Jolly writes the cover story about how these two would be prime candidates for the "Bidone d'Oro" (Golden Bin), the mock-award Italians used to give to Serie A's most expensive, disappointing stars.
For Liverpool and Manchester United this season, Balotelli and Falcao have been stunning failures.
“The common denominators are that Balotelli and Falcao have scored four goals apiece,” writes Richard Jolly. “Each represented a panic signing at the end of the transfer window, left on the shelf because others had wisely decided not to recruit them and brought in after other targets eluded United and Liverpool.
“If there were an English equivalent of the Bidone d’Oro, they would be the prime candidates.
“Because, while it should be a source of sadness rather than mockery, each, in his different way, has been rubbish.”
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