Mario Balotelli walks into a bar. It's a comedic setup with infinite possibilities.
But there was nothing funny about the time the Italy striker was pelted with bananas and racially abused by football fans on a night out in Rome, back in 2009.
Those who know Balotelli know he is not a man to back down.
"I will not accept racism at all," he said this week. "It's unacceptable. If someone throws a banana at me in the street, I will go to jail, because I will kill them."

