Articles tagged with "sissoko"
LiveBlog: Juventus v. Lazio
By alessio | April 26th, 2008After my 2nd attempt to write a preview for the game failed, I said screw it, I'll live blog it. Check out Salvatore's preview over at the Lazio Offside. My favorite bar is closing tonight so I may still be buzzed. It's early but hope to see you t ...
Juve 3 Milan 2,
By Gianfranco | April 12th, 2008When the game ended today, I did something I had not done in a long, long time. I shut off the TV and walked away in a vain attempt to take my mind completely off of today’s match. I was not even going to write tonight because quite frankly I did ...
Palermo v. Juventus LiveBlog
By alessio | April 5th, 2008Welcome to TheOffside's liveblog of the Palermo-Juventus game, week 32. Palermo have lost 4-in-a-row and Juve is in relative good form. Looks like Nocerino is filling in for Zanetti in the center. Morganti is our ref today. Make your own conclus ...
Palermo v. Juventus: Colantuono's Last Chance, Really This Time... I Swear
By roberto | April 3rd, 2008Tifosi Rosaneri don't tell me, let me guess. Colantuono's got some secret plan to beat us come Sunday. I mean, that's the reason why Zamparini hired him again, right? Well it's either that, or he persuaded your president for another chance afte ...
Ranieri v. Mancini: Coach's Couch - Derby d'Italia Edition
By roberto | March 26th, 2008Offsiders listen up: I'd like to introduce to you my brand new segment called "Coach's Couch". Here we'll tackle many of world's famous tacticians and their questionable techniques-- all from the marvellous vantage points of our couch. This is a ...
10 People We'd Like Not To Star In A Sex Tape
By chris | March 25th, 2008Sex tapes with young athletes are one thing, I suppose, for those of you are into that sort of thing. Sex tapes involving the likes of Paul Jewell, however, is an entirely different matter. It's safe to say no one benefits from watching Pauly get do ...
Palm Sunday Victory & Wednesday Night Ashes Before Saturday's Derby d'Italia Clashes
By roberto | March 21st, 2008An 87th minute strike from Vincenzo Iaquinta gave Juventus the victory against Napoli by way of a heavenly first-touch. My goodness I'm obsessed with first-touches now more then ever. Can someone tell me if there's anything more fundamentally important to
Juventus v. Napoli: Preview & Notes
By roberto | March 16th, 2008First and foremost, apologies for the lack of general attention to the Old Lady blog. I've been overseas securing reserves for my new Cambodian breast milk venture. But now I'm back at home and ready to spit out some more of these posts. What great timing
Live Coverage: Genoa v. Juventus FORZA RAGAZZI!!!
By roberto | March 9th, 2008What: Serie A Championship, Week 27 Who: Genoa - Juventus Where: Stadio Luigi Ferraris, Genoa When: Sunday, March 9th 2008, 20:30 Streaming: Here Headin' into town today? Well just pick me up some 'jesus-what-the-hell-happened-over-these-last-three
Goals of the Week
By chris | March 3rd, 2008Inter's loss may be the talk of the town, but the upset of the season has to be that this is the 3rd installment of GOTW and Fab Quags has yet to make an appearance. The guy scores at least four spectacular goals before breakfast. The Diamond (Alessand
Fuck, A Review Without Many Words.
By roberto | February 5th, 2008Hit the showers Belardi, Buffon's back! (no pun intended) He's no where near exceptional, but at least Saliham's consistent. Lego had a game to forget. Make the next a game to remember! Grygera getting arrested for being dumb. WTF?
Sissoko & Stendardo Now, Mellberg In July, Tiago Still Retarded
By roberto | January 28th, 2008Reports out of Italy are confirming the signing the Momo Sissoko and Olef Mellberg this morning. Momo has apparently signed a contract for four and half seasons that will see him at Juventus until June of 2012. Liverpool will be given 11 million euros up
Livorno vs a Team from Torino that isn't Torino
By Marco | January 25th, 2008* Maybe you've seen this image 420 times now, but i kind of like it, I'm sure Roberto LOVES it! Rubentus, i mean Juventus is coming to town! The northern Zebras are coming to the Picchi on Sunday, for once they'll feel right at home playing in a stadiu
Coppa Italia Quaters, Plus Goodbye Tiago - Hello Sissoko!
By roberto | January 25th, 2008Fielding a starting eleven for this one was no easy task. Yet, you just knew with the atmosphere being what it has always been when these two teams get together, those who got the nod for either squad would be playing some spirited football. Or at least t
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
The Ever-Changing Juve Transfer Drama
By Martha | January 22nd, 2008Just a couple of weeks ago, Juve were hot and heavy after Liverpool's Momo Sissoko. Then, it looked as if their interested had faded, and they were content to bring in Olof Mellberg from Aston Villa in June, rather than rush into anything right now. But,
News Roundup Featuring Most of the Same Old Names
By Martha | January 14th, 2008•The Maniche deal -- now done enough to be officially address by Inter functionaries -- keeps getting pushed back. For a while, he as arriving last night and having his medical today. Now, while he's supposedly in Milan, the medical and contract won't h
Massive, Bless You My Child News Roundup
By Martha | January 9th, 2008•The Pope loves football. Stay in school, kids. •Via something that's not their official website, Atletico Madrid have reportedly confirmed the loan of Maniche to Inter. If he passes his medical, the midfielder will be join the Nerazzuri tomorrow a
Giant News Roundup As Global Warming Really Kicks In
By Martha | January 8th, 2008•Holy crap, Alberto Aquilani made it through a match! Quick, wrap him and cotton wool and put him away until the weekend. •As Jeremy reported this morning, Cagliari are doing their level best to convince themselves (and anyone else who cares) that
A Quick News Roundup As We Await the Return of Real Football
By Martha | January 7th, 2008•Last year, Chelsea were among the clubs tracking Marek Hamsik, but they weren't willing to pay Brescia price and the Slovak went to Napoli for €5.5 million, where he's turned in a stellar first half. The 20-year-old has been so impressive, in fact, t
Monday Odds n Ends as We Learn Ranieri Didn't Want Tiago Anyway
By Martha | December 10th, 2007•Claudio Ranieri is quoted in the press as saying Juve were "forced" into buying Tiago when the high price tage Liverpool slapped on Mohamed Sissoko (who Juve were chasing fully a year ago) made them look elsewhere for midfield help. Boy, I'm sure that
You want me to play Sissoko and Mascherano? I say no, no, no
By ed | November 5th, 2007In my last post, I put forward my opinion that Mascherano and Sissoko should never play together but after thinking about things for a little longer and taking a few minutes to watch a bit of the match again, I may have to eat my words. First off, here
Just When You Think It's Safe To Write A Match Review...
By roberto | October 24th, 2007This week, La Juve garnered more applause than an a topless co-ed in spring break, more whistles than a guys night out at the bar, more red cards than on Valentine's Day, more regrets than a horny high schooler, more hype than a Mayweather Jr. boxing m
Impossible is not Marseillais...
By Magnusson | October 4th, 2007"Impossible n'est pas marseillais" This is a saying people use talking about Marseille and we saw why tonight. It's too late for me to write anything but we did it. At Anfield. As I predicted, they underestimated us and thought the Tottenham game w
Make them walk alone...
By Magnusson | October 3rd, 2007The Last time we met. During the 2003/2004 season, Marseille was having a lackluster season and our coach Alain Perrin was fired after less than ten games after having helped us qualify for the Champion's League. We didn't get very far in that competit
Pompey Preview
By ed | September 14th, 2007Tomorrow we’re being hosted by Portsmouth at Fratton Park which hasn’t been the most fruitful location for us. According to the BBC preview, we’ve played 27 times and won only eight. However, in the Premiership we’ve fared slightly better, with tw
Top 5 preseason players
By Brian | August 7th, 20075. Xabi Alonso - seemed to already be in mid-season form, making fantastic passes and being an all-round menace on the pitch. 4. Dirk Kuyt - I have made no secret that I love seeing Kuyt as our striker-in-the-hole and thought he was brilliant when he g
Liverpool 0, Feyenoord 1: first half thoughts
By Brian | August 5th, 2007I don't really have that much to say. It's been more exciting then that dreadfully awful charity shield earlier today, but that's not saying much. On the goal, it looks like we got burnt being too far forward, something I have cautioned about way too ma
starting line-up versus Feyenoord
By Brian | August 5th, 2007Reina Arbeloa Riise Carragher Agger Gerrard Alonso Kewell Pennant Kuyt Voronin Subs: Martin Finnan Torres Benayoun Crouch Mascherano Hyypia Sissoko The first thing I thought was Finnan isn't on the first team? I doubt that, but ri
Liverpool 2, Shanghai Shenhua 0
By Brian | August 3rd, 2007Another preseason win, though frustrating. In the first half, we really let Shanghai's physical play bother us. We are going to have to learn to either 'return the favor' or take the higher road because teams are going to annoy the crap out of us in the
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