Articles tagged with "dida"
Bidone d'Oro Nominations out: Does Rai Radio Due watch Serie A?
By alessio | November 17th, 2009Every season this time of year, the hosts of Rai Radio 2 give out the Bidone d'Oro, or the "Golden Trashbin" to the worst flops ...
Football's Diving Hall of Fame (With New Inductee).
By chris | August 27th, 2009How can one undo all the good will and sympathies from a near career ending injury within seconds? Do what Eduardo did against Celtic ...
The Trip to Udine...
By Gianfranco | May 15th, 2009Playing Udinese probably couldn’t come at a worse time. Sure our history against them is fairly good, and I fondly remember the drubbing we ...
Time to Visit an Old Friend
By Gianfranco | March 20th, 2009Sunday’s game is about as loaded a game as we are going to see next to the Derby. This fixture last season, a 3-1 ...
Recap, Better Late than Never
By Gianfranco | March 17th, 2009I have never seen a team win two games so easily, yet play so erratically, and basically find a way to get out of their ...
Ricardo Quaresma Wins the Golden Piece of Garbage Award
By chris | December 8th, 2008Forget the Balloon D'Or: The Golden Bin/Trash Can - Bidone D'Oro in Eye-talian - is the best award handed out every year in football. It's ...
Ronaldo Plays Twenty Minutes for Charity; Zidane Goes an Hour
By Laurie | November 18th, 2008Watching charity matches is always a little surreal. Part footy match, part spectacle, part day trip away from the retirement home. I don't ...
Wednesday Milan Musings, SC Braga On Deck
By Gianfranco | November 5th, 2008The UEFA Cup has not been as much of a curse as everyone has made it out to be. The real curse of being ...
are we to believe ?
By j | July 14th, 2008Am I the only one who sees the entire Ronaldinho saga being played out with City being used as bait to drag the price up? ...
State of Affairs: GK
By Gianfranco | May 26th, 2008I am going to take a state of affairs for each position at Milan and then hopefully onto a state affairs for Serie A and ...
MORE Injuries, Plus Marseille Want Hatem Ben Arfa (Hahaha)
By Inara | April 8th, 2008This has got to be the worst year for Lyon in terms of injuries. Important players keep dropping like flies, right when things are getting ...
Who Wants A Mancio?
By chris | April 2nd, 2008Why is it that only unwanted goods are put onto eBay for sale? Like, why doesn't, say, Marcello Lippi secretly put himself on eBay? Could ...
Goalkeepers Are Fragile
By chris | February 18th, 2008Twas a bad week and weekend to be a goalkeeper for one of Europe's monster teams, because you couldn't run, couldn't hide....nowhere was safe. And ...
The Weekend In Review
By chris | February 17th, 2008The gap has widened at the top while absolutely nothing else was decided but Milan owned players are cursed. Hooray. Saturday Inter 2 - Livorno 0: Huge ...
You Say Who Is The 6th Best Keeper In The World?
By chris | January 16th, 2008With 2007 getting further and further down the road in the rear view, more time for analysis has been allowed, but it doesn't seem to ...
Milan's Signings Never Stick, And Their Keeper Still Sucks
By Martha | January 4th, 2008God, it just goes from bad to worse for Milan. First there was that David Suazo debacle last summer, when they totally signed a useful ...
Big(ger) Boys Pillaging Fiorentina?
By Martha | December 27th, 2007If you believe the Italian papers this morning, Fiorentina are about the receive big money offers for their two touchstone players. (Hopefully they'll be able ...
Inter 2 - Milan 1
By Gianfranco | December 23rd, 2007Hang your head Nelson, you really showed us your world class keeper skills today. Two stoppable shots, the second of the two literally looking ...
Lazio vs Juventus: Preview, Plus Post-Game Post-Mortems
By roberto | December 13th, 2007So, 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 ...
The Weirdest Thing...
By Gianfranco | December 11th, 2007So the other night I woke up in a hot sweat after having the strangest dream ever. Let me first prerequisite this with a ...
Poor, Poor, Adriano
By Martha | December 10th, 2007Ok, it's official: I feel sorry for him now. Even while he's busy over in Brazil, trying to sort himself out, the memories of how ...
CL Match Day Recap, Pippo is King
By Gianfranco | December 4th, 2007JT over at the Celtic blog wrote a great live blog that you should check out in case you missed the game. He also ...
Milan 0 - Roma 1
By Gianfranco | October 28th, 2007I am absolutely furious. That was one of the worst games I have seen in a long time on all different levels. From ...
WTF! Milan 4- Shakhtar 1, CL Recap
By Gianfranco | October 24th, 2007Well the two headed monster that is AC Milan has left me dumbfounded once again. This time the attacking team decided to show up ...
Wednesday Milan Musings
By Gianfranco | October 23rd, 2007With a Champions League fixture slowly approaching Milan looks to be in a bit worser shape than I had imagined. The lack of depth ...
Saturday Afternoon Hangover, Weekend Preview
By Gianfranco | October 20th, 2007It may still be early in the Serie A season but the next few games are important as ever for the Rossoneri. Nine points ...
GUILTY
By Gianfranco | October 11th, 2007In the biggest case since OJ, Nelson Dida has been found guilty by UEFA for what is being called unsportsmanlike conduct. UEFA has handed ...
Dida gets two-game ban; Celtic fined $57,000
By Bob | October 11th, 2007The verdict is in from the great Dida fiasco and for once the UEFA overloads have gotten things right. Celtic have been fined $57,000 ...
Odds and Ends as Inter's U-11s Humiliate Their Opponents
By Martha | October 8th, 2007•Last season I got all righteously indignant about Inter's Pulcini A team (they're 11 years old, and under) beating opponents by scores like 39-0 and ...
Bhoys Back On Top, Rangers On Deck
By JT | October 8th, 2007Celtic grabbed back their traditional spot at the top of the Scottish Premier League table yesterday, snatching two late goals from Gretna, and completing what ...
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