There have been many stories about Mario Balotelli's escapades from his time at Manchester City and Inter Milan - some true, some not - including impromptu visits to women's prisons and a Manchester school.
But possibly the strangest one came today, when one MP claimed that he had spotted the Liverpool striker at the UK House of Commons.
Guy Opperman tweeted that he had seen a sharply dressed Balotelli in the corridors of power at Westminster:
Liverpool striker Mario Balotelli has popped in to Commons Gallery to watch the Drug Policy debate -wearing sharp suit, pink shirt &a poppy
— Guy Opperman MP (@GuyOppermanMP) October 30, 2014
In actual fact, Balotelli, who scored against Swansea in midweek was keeping the head down and training with Liverpool at Melwood training ground at the other end of the country.
Turns out the person mistaken for Balotelli was a dancer and campaigner with a vaguely similar haircut to the Italian...
Can confirm the bloke with the yellow mohican in the Commons gallery is not Mario Balotelli. He's a 55-yr-old dancer. Sorry, @GuyOppermanMP
— Tom Newton Dunn (@tnewtondunn) October 30, 2014
This is the Commons 'Mario Balotelli' aka Ken Hinds, 55 a dancer and stop and search campaigner https://t.co/24OnQnTYU3
— Georgia Graham (@georgiagraham) October 30, 2014
So is Opperman just referee Andre Marriner in disguise? Quite possibly.
