It wasn't Brendan Rodgers, it wasn't anyone in the Berlusconi family, it wasn't the Liverpool chairman, it wasn't his former manager and anglophile Jose Mourinho.
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No, it was everyone's favourite chicken nugget scoffing, Manchester United loving sub-10 second 100 metre sprinter, the fastest man in the history of the world himself, Usain Bolt.
Appearing on ESPN, he told interviewer, former West Ham goalkeeper Shaka Hislop that he had spoken to Balotelli just before he signed for Liverpool.
We were speaking the other day and I told him that England is the best place to play football. For me, as long as he makes a couple of errors when he plays against United, everyone will be happy
No doubt this proved decisive.
