By Chris Wright
With just one win to show for their last ten matches, Inter Milan canned Ranieri the Tinkerman last night and promoted youth team coach Andrea Stramaccioni (a man who claims to have invented 39 set-piece routines in his time!) up to the first-string to keep an eye on things until the end of the season.
This news by and large had absolutely nothing to do with Mario Balotelli – up until this afternoon when, with a huge grin across his face, he wandered into shot during Stramaccioni’s introductory press conference just to say ‘hello’ to everybody present, interrupting proceedings for a while before sidling off stage left…
Video: Sky Italia (via The Footy Blog)