Articles tagged with "adriano"
Mmm ... Blackmail
By Martha | March 14th, 2007So, it turns out this wave of blackmail in Italy is due not to a bunch of individuals catching footballers (and others, it turns out) ...
Newsie Bits For a Sleepy Saturday
By Martha | March 10th, 2007Does anyone else get the feeling that calcio is resting, trying to prepare itself for the derby tomorrow? Well, it's what I'm doing, anyway. •Adriano, not ...
Ronaldo: Fat Big-Boned, Angry, and Left Out
By Martha | March 9th, 2007
It's been a bummer of a week for Ronaldo so far. First, he was cup-tied and couldn't help Milan in their desperate efforts to break ...
Inter At Valencia: A Rivalry Renewed
By Michael | March 6th, 2007A lot has been said these last few weeks about Inter’s recent history at the Mestalla, so I thought it would be nice to take ...
All Good Things Come To An End
By Michael | March 1st, 2007The belatedness of this post had nothing to do with me sulking and everything to do with me having computer problems. Nobody would have faulted ...
Friday News Roundup
By Michael | February 23rd, 2007- I had hoped for this to be the first day of good news here at this blog, but it wasn’t to be. Today, Esteban ...
Adriano Won't Invite Mancini To His Parties; Is Out This Summer
By Martha | February 23rd, 2007Though of course it's not been confirmed, the very loud word on the street in Italy is that Adriano's absence from Inter's lineup against Valencia ...
Final Euro-Thoughts Of The Week = Villa Envy
By Michael | February 22nd, 2007- One last thought from Wednesday’s Champions League match before I turn my attention back to the friendly confines of Serie A, where everything ...
Just When You Thought It Was Safe... A New Adriano Soap Opera
By Michael | February 22nd, 2007- Well, mystery solved on the Adriano front and quite frankly I’m a little upset I didn’t put 2 and 2 together more quickly. Seems ...
Catching Up, Or: So Much News, So Little Time!
By Martha | February 14th, 2007• You may not have heard, but Kaka is now Italian. This is good for Milan because it means he's no longer and non-EU player, ...
Chievo v Inter: For the Love of God, SHUT UP!
By Martha | February 11th, 2007An unforeseen side-effect of the creepy silence in many of the grounds around Italy this weekend is that it gives moronic English-language announcers more room ...
Rumors and News for Monday: Everyone Loves Rossi and Andriano
By Martha | January 22nd, 2007•Giuseppe Rossi's agent has seized the occasion of his spectacular goal to shout far and wide about how many of the big clubs want to ...
Inter v Fiorentina: Lucky 13
By Martha | January 21st, 2007And Inter roll on. Man alive. The more I watch this team play, the more willing I am to believe that they're not going to lose ...
Torino v Inter: 12 Wins and Counting
By Martha | January 13th, 2007It was sort of anticlimactic, but Inter set a league record for most wins in a row today with a pretty easy 3-1 win over ...
And Today, in Bizarro World, Adriano Can't Stop Scoring
By Martha | January 10th, 2007Look out world, here comes Adriano! The man who spent the first half of the season as unarguably the biggest waste of space in Serie ...
Transfer Talk: Too Sexy for their Shirts and their Teams
By Bob | January 9th, 2007It is that time of year again when the rumors are hot and heavy and fiction becomes reality. We’ll do our best to help you ...
The Money Splashes in Rome
By Martha | January 9th, 2007Over the weekend, Luciano "Strikers? We Don't Need No Stinking Strikers!" Spalletti was rewarded for his magic at Roma with the offer of a contract ...
While You Were Sleeping: Developments in Milan
By Martha | January 8th, 2007•Figo is an Arab: After what seemed like months of speculation, highlighted by total silence on the player's part and a Figo-free unveiling in Dubai, ...
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 ...
Holidays Mean No Internet. (And Some Adriano.)
By Martha | December 21st, 2006(You know what I just realized? Mancini plays Adriano because he hates him, and wants him to be humiliated. Seriously -- there's no other explanation. ...
Adriano Goes Walkies
By Martha | December 19th, 2006As if Adriano didn't have enough problems, he turned up missing (best expression ever?) for training yesterday, and reportedly hasn't been seen since. Since I'm ...
Empoli v Inter: Inter Continue to Roll
By Martha | December 10th, 2006After a toothless first half during which Empoli were so careless you wondered how on earth they got so high in the table, this turned ...
Daily Dose 12.05
By Bob | December 5th, 2006Some stories to read while you put some clothes on before the next trip to the drive-thru.... Truly a thinking man's game (Law Society Blog) Why could ...
An Award for Adriano! Woot! Oh, Wait ....
By Martha | December 4th, 2006Adriano may be virtually useless on the pitch, but that doesn't mean he's being forgotten by the football fans of Italy. In fact, listeners to ...
Week 13, Or: Look Out, Here Comes Inter
By Martha | November 27th, 2006It's not the loss by Palermo that worries me -- they more than held their own, and given how ... oddly Fontana dealt with Ibra's ...
Inter-Reggina: An Adriano Sighting!
By Martha | November 19th, 2006The good news for Inter fans: Your team beat Reggina and is alone at the top of the table, still undefeated for the season. The good ...
Adriano Out, Messi In? Yes, Please!
By Martha | November 11th, 2006How about some rumors with your breakfast? This one's at least a vague possibility, if you believe the Italian papers. Well, sort of. Apparently the ...
Things to Ponder as You Wonder Which Bank Julio Cruz is About to Hit
By Martha | November 3rd, 2006•Why is Andriano back in Milan already? I thought he was going to spend a long a time sunbathing and eating recharging at home. •Is the ...
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