Manchester City striker Mario Balotelli is kicking off the new season in more hot water.
City's Italian striker started the new season yesterday just as he finished the last one - at the centre of controversy.
A top worn for the start of preseason training showed a pistol, machine gun, knife and a girl's bleeding mouth and earned him a warning to start behaving like an adult.
Gary Trowsdale, managing director of the Damilola Taylor Trust, told The Sun: "This kind of thing is reprehensible but it doesn't surprise me.
"Not long ago we heard about Nile Ranger of Newcastle holding a gun for a photo on Facebook. Then there's been Joey Barton's behaviour.
"What I want to know is where does it all end? These young guys are meant to be role models for the kids growing up. I grew up watching Chelsea in the Peter Osgood era and things like this were unheard of.
"These players get paid an awful lot of money, thousands of us pay a lot to go and watch them every week and pay those wages.
"The least we expect in return is for them to behave like responsible adults. But it doesn't surprise me and what I want to know is what their union chief Gordon Taylor will do about it.
"It's something that needs to be looked at. It's easy for us to condemn young players for doing it but the PFA need to do something."
