Articles tagged with "musings"
Wednesday Milan Musings
By Gianfranco | May 13th, 2008It is really hard to let a game like Sunday’s rest especially after reading match reviews and comments from various websites. It hurts as a fan to have the heart of your team questioned, but it also forces you to think about those accusations bein ...
Time for Trip to the Motherland
By Gianfranco | May 9th, 2008This weekend the Rossoneri travel to an old time foe, which still holds a place in my heart, after all I am Napolitano. Place in my heart or not, I don’t care about anything but a Milan victory this weekend, because with the way the table stan ...
Derby Recap, and Welcoming a Frenchman
By Gianfranco | May 7th, 2008I have to admit I am still overly thrilled with the derby win, and still salivating over the thrilling potential of the scudetto going down to the wire. An all around dominate performance from Milan, and I would have to say that less the last 15-2 ...
Tuesday Milan Musings, Livorno 1 - Milan 4
By Gianfranco | April 28th, 2008Four goals are always impressive no matter the competition. I will say that the two whoopings that Milan has handed out are against relegations teams, and it may or may not be all the necessary to beat up on teams that maybe don’t deserve it. But ...
Thursday Milan Musings
By Gianfranco | April 24th, 2008Going away to a team deep in the relegation battle is never an easy prospect. I would consider this game very much a carbon copy of last week, except this time it is away from home which has proved to be a bit more friendly to the Rossoneri than we ...
Tuesday Milan Musings, the Dark Horses of the Transfer Market
By Gianfranco | April 22nd, 2008Happy Bday to Milan's own Kaka enjoy his birthday video... On a lighter note there is another birthday to celebrate here at the Milan Offside blog. Today marks the one year anniversary of my time here. I tell you just a year ago we were talkin ...
Friday Milan Musings, the Saga Continues
By Gianfranco | April 18th, 2008There was a time when a more successful Milan team comfortably in the top two or three of Serie A would roll over for a relegation zone team like Reggina. The problem is that this Milan is not comfortably atop the table, in fact they are not comfort ...
Tuesday Milan Musings
By Gianfranco | April 15th, 2008I hate to beat a dead horse, but I want to get in a few final thoughts about the Juve game. I am still a bit upset with Bonera and it appears that I am not the only one. It seems Bonera may get a suspension from the FIGC stemming from his poor tack ...
Tuesday Milan Musings
By Gianfranco | April 8th, 2008Look I hate to criticize a win, but someone has to do it, and why shouldn’t that someone be me. I will start some good points though, Bonera was excellent. He pushed forward and got back and made the most of his chance to play. He should get use ...
Thursday Milan Musings
By Gianfranco | April 3rd, 2008Just because our team is not in the Champions League anymore doesn’t mean we can’t discuss the tournament in addition to our usual Milan Musings. Roma vs. ManU: Roma was overmatched by a team that is firing on all cylinders. I think Wayn ...
Thursday Milan Musings, Singing a different Tune
By Gianfranco | March 27th, 2008The other day I "gasp" praised Inter for making a very solid move for Ronaldinho. But today I have to change my tune, it appears those bastards are about to pull a Suazo on the Rossoneri all over again. Rumor has it that Drogba is in talks with Int ...
Tuesday Milan Musings
By Gianfranco | March 25th, 2008This is probably the only time I will say this in my 25 years of life, cheers to Inter. Why would I say such crazy things? Sure I drank a few beers with dinner but that’s not the reason, the real reason is that Inter have done Ol’Sil and Fester ...
Tuesday Milan Musings, Samp Time
By Gianfranco | March 19th, 2008vs. The Rossoneri are still licking their wounds from an extremely difficult weekend loss, but the shorter their memory the better they will be because Cassono-less Samp is coming to town. With Samp only four points behind Milan this game
Thursday Milan Musings
By Gianfranco | March 14th, 2008To Stadio Olimpico the Rossoneri go on Saturday afternoon for a very pivotal game against a Roma side who is coming in hot. With a dispatching of Real Madrid and a handy win over Napoli Roma are firing on all cylinders and have their eyes squarely
Tuesday Milan Musings
By Gianfranco | March 11th, 2008Today beckons with an age old question, Inter or L’Pool? Quite frankly if they both somehow eliminated themselves, maybe because Inter has two many internationals and are now considered the Junior Argentine National Team, thus disqualifying them fr
Wednesday Milan Musings, Where do we go from here...
By Gianfranco | March 6th, 2008It is eerily starting to feel like one of the worst periods I can ever remember for the Rossoneri. 11 seasons ago Milan looked a bit like it does now, and though it may be hard to really think and talk about it, it is really worth exploring the cause and
Thursday Milan Musings
By Gianfranco | February 28th, 2008First the good news, the first ever Milan Meet and Greet was in my opinion a success, we got to learn a ton of new stuff as well and meet some new members of the Rossoneri faithful. A couple of the great points were the unconditional love for Maldini as
Thursday Milan Musings
By Gianfranco | February 22nd, 2008I have got a ton of things running through my head and getting them down on paper is harder than I had imagined. My head is a whirlwind on post match days as I rethink, reanalyze, and in most cases re-watch the match with a more pessimistic outlook, it h
Tuesday Milan Musings
By Gianfranco | February 13th, 2008Tomorrow Milan will take on Livorno and eliminating the last game in hand that Milan has over the rest of the table. That means that with a win they will climb to 39 points and in firm hold of fourth place and ticket for the Champions League. I am not t
Friday Milan Musings
By Gianfranco | February 9th, 2008Guess whos back? Not only is he back, and supposedly ready for Siena. He is also ready to win a Champions Cup with AC Milan, and feels sorry for keeping Rossoneri waiting with his various injuries. Well Big Ron I have to say that your apology is
Wednesday Milan Musings, With a Touch of BLUE
By Gianfranco | February 7th, 2008First things first, Portugal is easily the one of the better teams in Europe, and I do not like to look all that much into friendlies. But as an Azzuri fan you really have to like what you saw and as a Milan fan you have to like it even more, this was a
Tuesday Milan Musings
By Gianfranco | February 5th, 2008I know my recap is a little late but I want to get the space and time they deserve. I was also waiting on more news regarding everyone’s favorite duck, Pato and his, what someone has called horrific ankle injury. We have at one point or another rolle
Thursday Milan Musings
By Gianfranco | February 1st, 2008Well the day after a win is always bittersweet. I am still really happy about the win, but it has time to settle and I really start picking apart what I did not like. I guess we can start with what I did like though this time around. -Rino and Pirlo
Tuesday Milan Musings
By Gianfranco | January 23rd, 2008-While I work today my DVR will be diligently recording Atalanta-Milan. Remember this is the game that was postponed after fan riots following the death of a Lazio supporter. I have yet to decide whether I rather this game now or then, either way we nee
Wednesday Milan Musings; Weah Time
By Gianfranco | January 16th, 2008I am planning a full post devoted to the second best African footballer of all time, behind only a one Didier Drogba. I thought I would preface a Weah day in the future by showing what really is one of the greatest goals in Milan history. Enjoy
Tuesday Milan Musings
By Gianfranco | January 15th, 2008-By the sheer grace of God the trance has been lifted from Silvio Berlusconi! He is no longer madly in love with Ronaldinho, instead he has turned his attention to other players. On top of that he claimed that, “We would not do anything to get him.”
Thursday Milan Musings
By Gianfranco | January 11th, 2008I began researching my next post which was supposed to discuss why Milan spent the money on Pato when they had alternatives. While researching I found this, and said to myself why reinvent the wheel when all of my feelings are right here. Thanks to Chan
Tuesday Milan Musings, OK Boys Vacation is Over
By Gianfranco | January 9th, 2008Milan was succesful today in Dubai striking net twice in the friendly. It was not much of an affair to get excited about with two seperate Milan teams playing each half, with only Gourcuff seeing action in the full ninety. Gila bagged a pair in his shor
Friday Milan Musings, Transfer Window B-Listers
By Gianfranco | January 4th, 2008Every transfer window will have its big name rumors like the Sheva’s, Drogba’s, Lucarelli’s and any other Brazilians who have fallen out of favor at their current employer. What we do sometimes neglect to explore are a second tier of players who ar
Tuesday Milan Musings, "A New Year brings New Players?"
By Gianfranco | January 1st, 2008There is no better way to kick off the New Year than with some cold hard transfer window speculation and regular old Milan Musings. SPECULATION Disclaimer: speculation is exactly that! -Ronaldinho: I am as sick of this transfer rumor as I have ever
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