Articles tagged with "ascoli"
Coppa Wrap as Totti Scores, Lazio Survive and Milan Go Home
By Martha | January 18th, 2008[Sorry about the radio silence yesterday -- The Offside unexpectedly switched servers, which left a lot of us seeing error messages all day. I wrote ...
The Rest of the Bianconeri Roaming Around...
By gianfranco z | August 10th, 2007Here is the follow up to the first set of players on loan..... I know you have all been sitting at your computers waiting in ...
Week 38: And That's a Wrap
By Martha | May 28th, 2007With the top of the table and European qualification decided last weekend, all eyes this week were on the five teams still not safe from ...
Week 36: Same Old Rossi, Can't Stop Scoring
By Martha | May 14th, 2007I don't know what to think about this Giuseppi Rossi thing. I get that the kid couldn't get on the pitch at Man U -- ...
Week 35: Bobo is Back!
By Martha | May 7th, 2007In case you missed it, Christian Vieri scored an absolutely sick goal yesterday, his first since his return from injury and a reminder of exactly ...
Week 33, Or: Champs at Last (And Ranieri Works His Magic)
By Martha | April 23rd, 2007Thanks to a lackluster win over Siena and Roma's anticlimactic loss to Atalanta, Inter ended the weekend with their first on-field Scudetto since the 1988-1989 ...
Week 22 (Yes, We're Going Back in Time), Or: Marry Me, Claudio Ranieri!
By Martha | April 19th, 2007Instead of acknowledging Inter's depressing loss, I've decided to focus instead on Parma's miraculous victory over Fiorentina: Two more goals by Giuseppi Rossi, three points, ...
Week 32: Signs of Life From Palermo!
By Martha | April 16th, 2007[Note: I'm in a meeting and then on a plane today, so this'll be it from me. If I can get home through the storms ...
Week 31: Holy Crap, Look at Parma!
By Martha | April 9th, 2007Check it out, everyone -- the Tinkerman's magic has returned! Thanks to a spectacular late goal by Jersey boy Giuseppe Rossi, Parma took three points ...
Week 30: And the League Recedes in Inter's Rear View Mirror
By Martha | April 2nd, 2007For those of you keeping track, the lead is now 20 points with nine rounds to go, and Inter are closing in on the fabled ...
Week 29, Or: Three Cheers For Claudio Ranieri!
By Martha | March 19th, 2007Parma won, Parma won! So what if it was down to a questionable offside call? Ranieri finally got his first three points back in Italy. ...
Ascoli v Inter: Poor Ascoli
By Martha | March 18th, 2007Really, once you see Ascoli play, it's hard not to feel for them. They acquit themselves well, no matter the opposition, and I've never seen ...
Week 28, Or: The Tension Rises at Both Ends of the Table
By Martha | March 12th, 2007Apart from Inter's unrelenting sprint and Roma's respectable ability to put some distance between themselves and the rest of the table, things are really tightening ...
Week 27, Or: An Evil Referee and a Rampant Fiorentina
By Martha | March 5th, 2007This weekend had everything -- charges of corruption, saved penalties, buckets of goal, and utterly gorgeous weather. (Did you see the stands? Those people were ...
A Sad State of Affairs
By Martha | March 2nd, 2007Tragically, there won't be any posting here today -- even for my beloved Luis Figo who, as you can see above, clearly reads this site. If ...
Week 26, Or: Look Out for Flying Pigs
By Martha | March 1st, 2007Yes, that's right: Inter actually dropped points yesterday. Let's have a moment of silence for The Streak, shall we? Thank you. I know it's going ...
Hide the Children, There's an Ugly Basement Battle on the Way
By Martha | February 28th, 2007Ascoli and Parma, AKA the two worst teams in Serie A, meet today at Ascoli in a desperate battle for three points. Though the game ...
Week 25, Or: Goals Galore
By Martha | February 26th, 2007Sunday morning I watched Fiorentina v Empoli on RAI. It was on La Grande Giostra Dei Gol, a five hour show that seems to combine ...
Week 24: It's All About Inter
By Martha | February 19th, 2007When even Luciano Spalletti admits the title is Inter's, you know it's a done deal. While it's been obvious for a couple of months now ...
You Guys, Stop Being So Mean to Gianluca Pagliuca!
By Martha | February 12th, 2007Stop press: We finally found someone who is pissed he had to play in front of fans yesterday. Ladies and gentlemen, Gianluca Pagliuca. Yes, he's ...
Week 21, Or: A Headbutt and Another Win for Inter
By Martha | January 29th, 2007Until now, Inter have been winning by overpowering opponents with their superior ability, so there was always a chance of a slip-up. Now that we ...
Ascoli v Atalanta: Welcome to Hell
By Martha | January 20th, 2007Well, now that I've seen Ascoli play, I feel even sorrier for them and their pitiful nine points from 20 games. Though they ended up ...
Week 18, Or: While I Was Out
By Martha | December 26th, 2006As I was settling into the good cable-less Midwestern bosom of my family for the holidays, the first half of the Serie A season was ...
Week 17, Or: God and Palermo Keep Ascoli Miserable. (Sorry, Ascoli.)
By Martha | December 21st, 2006Whew. Thanks in large part (obviously) to my intervention on their behalf with the Lord, Palermo thumped poor, winless Ascoli 4-0 yesterday. (In case you're ...
In the Name of All That is Holy, Don't Let Ascoli Get Their First Win Today
By Martha | December 20th, 2006Dear God: You know I have bags of sympathy for Ascoli, right? Any team that hasn't managed a win in 16 weeks automatically has my ...
Week 16, Or: And the League Recedes in Inter's Rear View Mirror
By Martha | December 18th, 2006Another round of settling in for Serie A, with Inter continuing to roll (thanks in part to a goal by the ever-modest Matrix, who described ...
Ascoli Are SO Hating Life Right Now
By Martha | December 12th, 2006Until today, the only thing that was keeping poor, poor Ascoli off the bottom of the table was the fact that Reggina started the season ...
Week 15, Or: It's Rosetti's Fault Yet Again
By Martha | December 11th, 2006Hmm, Roberto Rosetti. Where have we heard that name before? Oh yeah, he was the referee Palermo chairman Maurizio Zamparini accused of corruption after his ...
Week 14, Or: When it Became a Two-Horse Race
By Martha | December 4th, 2006I know there's really no excuse for the endless sucking of Milan this season, but look at the injury list they carried into yesterday's game ...
Ascoli President, Assorted Women Threatened with Something, Or: OK, Who Speaks Italian?
By Martha | November 16th, 2006I can't find any reports of this story in the English-language press, but it sounds as if a small group of irate Ultras (and, really, ...
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