In Pictures: Mario Balotelli flees to Milan with girlfriend Raffaella Fico

The Manchester City striker opted to head to Italy in the wake of his club's shock loss at Swansea and showed surprisingly good taste with his choice of car and companion

Mario Balotelli made a dash to Milan following Manchester City's defeat to Swansea on Sunday to spend some time with gorgeous girlfriend Raffaella Fico.  

Fico shot to fame via the Italian version of Big Brother - the sure fire way of achieving some sort of celebrity. From here she was the rumoured mother of Ronaldo's first born before linking up with Balotelli.

She has spoken in the past of her relationships: "Apart from Balotelli, I’ve only been with Cristiano Ronaldo. And I can assure you that Mario is much better."

I think she is referring to his driving skills...But after Balotelli was photographed leaving a Manchester strip club in the early hours before a Premier League game against Bolton, she added: "For me, he can go to a strip club, if he does nothing wrong, with friends, but I have to say that at the end he always comes back to me because I am his favourite."A beautiful and forgiving woman? "She gives me peace of mind and is understanding when I mess up," Mario said. No wonder Roberto Mancini is pushing the two to get married.It works both ways though? That's how a healthy relationship should be (so I've read...). Not in Balotelli's world: "If she went to a male strip club, I'd be very p***** off."I suppose you can't argue with a man who nonchalantly paid off a £250,000 fine for said strip club incident. The Balotelli mystique took a hit thanks to a recent interview where he denied almost every story that had been reported in the press of his famed madcap antics. Had he paid a tramp £1000? No. Did he dress up as Santa and hand money to people in Manchester? Never. What about taking the boy to school to confront his bully? Not a chance. It was the kind of debunking you just didn't want to hear. However, we were treated to a new Balotelli quirk, though as a professional athlete it's hardly the most endearing. He smokes. Yep, like a handful of Italian footballers, Mario has taken to the ill-advised habit. And it all comes from Mancini - who KNOWS about this! "If he were my son, I would give him a kick up the arse but he is not my son," Mancini said. "There are players in Italy who smoke and some over here but I don't think he smokes a lot – maybe five or six a day."That sounds a lot to me! 

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