The tackles were poor, I don't think they were malicious, but they were very very poor, he can't tackle for ****, but I remember Henry being a **** tackler too. Balotelli is an easy target for sure, and getting the deserved red card didn't help, but he was all over the ****ing pitch, and not in a bad way, winning the ball and harrying Arsenal as much as he could, which is a good thing as I didn't many in a blue shirt bothering to.
He's just going to be oe of those players, he'll come across a manager that will know how to handle him sooner or later, I'd advise ot letting Redknapp near him or you could regret it.