http://blogs.independent.co.uk| Blogs from the Independent newspaper - news, views and features from the world's most free-thinking newspaper| Mon, 20 May 2013 06:00:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2| en hourly 1 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/27/italian-press-depiction-of-mario-balotelli-as-king-kong-is-naive/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/27/italian-press-depiction-of-mario-balotelli-as-king-kong-is-naive/#comments Wed, 27 Jun 2012 02:00:49 +0000 Simon Martin http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=25695 In its build up to last Sunday’s Euro 2012 quarter final between Italy and England, the Italian daily La Gazzetta dello Sport dedicated that day’s cartoon to national team striker Mario Balotelli, depicting him as King Kong mounting Big Ben, rather than the Empire State building, from where he swatted away footballs fired in by the English.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/27/italian-press-depiction-of-mario-balotelli-as-king-kong-is-naive/feed/ 25