The Classiest XI

By Jack | April 16th, 2008

Their the maestros. Technically brilliant, often awe inspiring. Some would say they liken to sultry songstress Sade -- Smooth Operators. You know, the ones that lock you in and won't let you blink until the full-time whistle has gone. It's those ...

Arsenal v Milan: Lucky Lucky

By chris | February 20th, 2008

Arsenal 0 - Milan 0: The Rossoneri should count their lucky stars they were able to take a stalemate from the Emirates back to Milan tonight. Emmanuel Adebayor missed the sitter of all sitters in the dying seconds by heading a ball off the woodwork whe

News Round-Up As Donadoni Keeps Talking

By Martha | January 24th, 2008

•In case you missed it, Atalanta beat Milan 2-1 yesterday despite, as often happens with Milan's opponents, having much less of the ball, and the worse of the play. (La Gazzetta gave Pato a 4.5. Nico Burdisso, who was lasted less than eight minutes befo

Saturday Evening Hangover, The Drinks Just Keep on Comin

By Gianfranco | January 20th, 2008

UEFA names top eleven and three Rossoneri make the top 11 with one oddly MIA. You read that folks, NO OLD LADIES, NO INTERISTAS (for the moment I a can not consider Zlatan an Interista, he is not Argie so he will be withheld), AND NO ROMAN PRETTY BOYS.

News Roundup As We All Drink to Adriano

By Martha | January 18th, 2008

•Four of the players on UEFA.com's fan-chosen Team of the Year squad ply their trade in Italy, including three Rossoneri. Kaka, Alessandro Nesta and Clarence Seedorf are joined in the team by their totally awesome mortal enemy Zlatan Ibrahimovic. (No Pi

Lazio vs Juventus: Preview, Plus Post-Game Post-Mortems

By roberto | December 13th, 2007

So, how have you been? It's nice to be writing again. What have you been up too? How's the backhand? We haven't spoken in a while... I know I know it's all my fault. I've been a terrible blogger as of late and possibly an even worse undergrad. Funny I sho

Siena 1- AC MILAN 1

By Gianfranco | September 16th, 2007

I have yet to see the game due to a wedding yesterday, but after reading some of the game summaries it is probably a good thing. Carletto's formation, below, was a bit better than expected, and it did feature Gourcuff, but apparently things did not go as

Siena v Milan: Doh!

By Martha | September 15th, 2007

Milan, playing without the resting Massimo Oddo, Ricky Kaka and Andrea Pirlo, threw away so many gilt-edge chances in the first 10 minutes that a Siena goal seems almost inevitable; such wastefulness almost never goes unpunished. Plus, Milan were making t

What does World Class mean? | Which Premiership Players are World Classs?

By ed | September 10th, 2007

There’s a lot of talk about the need to sign “world class” players but how do you define the term? Is world class just another way to describe a player – like “good” or “great”? Or is it a literal term to mean players that are good enough

Saturday Newsie Bits: Hurrah for Frey!

By Martha | May 26th, 2007

•In what is clearly the most important story of the day, mercurial France manager Raymond Domenech has finally called Fiorentina's genius keeper Sebastian Frey into the nation team for a competitive match. Huzzah! (And about freaking time.) •In oth

Sober Reflections

By Gianfranco | May 24th, 2007

I was pretty impressed with the Liverpool fans hanging around until very late in the AC Milan celebration and I am glad that Milan honored them with cheers and thumbs enough. I was also impressed that Milan greeted Liverpool in a guard of honor while the

Saturday Morning News, Or: While I Was Out

By Martha | May 19th, 2007

Just so you know, I had three flights canceled in less than two days. Clearly I have done something to deeply offended the Aviation Gods. •In case you've been under a rock (or on a really, really long plane flight): Despite losing the game, Roma won

Nesta, Serginho Consorting With the Devil!

By Martha | March 26th, 2007

According to Google translate, at least. This is how it rendered the headline of seemingly innocuous article: Nesta and Serginho, aim of an incubus. Um ... whoa. Needless to say, this has surpassed "argument gay" as my favorite Google translational of all

Nesta is Back, Nesta is Back! [Insert Squeals of Joy Here]

By Martha | February 27th, 2007

Those are Carlo Ancelotti's squeals of joy, by the way. Who did you think, those of millions of smitten women? Come now, this is terribly serious business. No, really. Ancelotti is so desperate for a fit, available (nudge nudge) defender at this point

Nesta Interrupts Sunbathing to Announce He'll Stay in Milan

By Martha | February 15th, 2007

Usually I can sense it when footballers are in the US (My instincts are particularly good when it comes to the clients of that one surgeon in Colorado. What can I say? It's a gift. Well that and the English papers are obsessed with him and report every vi

Nesta Muttering About Quitting Azzurri (Before He's Dropped)

By Martha | November 13th, 2006

Alessandro Nesta is reportedly telling friends he's thinking about retiring from international play. And when I say "telling friends" I mean speaking in language so flowery I pray it's a bad translation. To wit: "You cannot always keep the lucidity playin

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