Articles tagged with "fiorentina"
Coppa Wrap as Totti Scores, Lazio Survive and Milan Go Home
By Martha | January 18th, 2008[Sorry about the radio silence yesterday -- The Offside unexpectedly switched servers, which left a lot of us seeing error messages all day. I wrote ...
Midweek News Roundup
By Martha | January 16th, 2008•The first FIFA rankings of 2008 are out, and nothing has changed among the top three -- it's still Argentina, Brazil and Italy, in that ...
News Roundup As We're Forced to Think of WC 2010
By Martha | January 15th, 2008•Even though we're still months from the start of Euro 2008, it's evidently not too early to think about World Cup qualifying, as the schedule ...
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 ...
Parma falls to Fiorentina, 2 goals from ex-Gialloblu Mutu
By Francesco | January 14th, 2008Parma ended it's good run at home with a loss to 5th place Fiorentina, who got the win with two goals from Adrian Mutu, who ...
10 Things We Learned In Serie A This Weekend
By chris | January 14th, 2008Fernando Forestieri says "I've got your Pato right here." He's got to be on the short list of the best talents in the world flying under ...
Week 18, Or: It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Pato!
By Martha | January 14th, 2008Milan not only scored at the San Siro, but they won there, too. And it's all down to Pato! ALL HAIL PATO! Wait, what? You ...
Parma v Fiorentina: Mutu Double
By Martha | January 13th, 2008I'm irredeemably biased when it comes to Bobo Vieri, but based on the first half today, I think anyone could see why Cesare Prandelli prefers ...
A News Roundup of a (No Longer) Reasonable Size
By Martha | January 10th, 2008•The rumor mill tells us that Milan are planning a meeting with Emre's agent today. The Turk -- an ex-Inter player, you may recall -- ...
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. ...
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 ...
Keepers, Keepers and More Keepers
By Martha | January 7th, 2008As Fiorentina can tell us, there's nothing like an outstanding keeper to help your team survive the bad days intact. And, even if you can't ...
Vargas on His Way Out of Catania?
By Martha | January 7th, 2008Since we don't have a Catania blogger, there's not as much talk around here about their Peruvian beast, Juan Manuel Vargas as there probably should ...
News Roundup as We Twitch in Anticipation of Pato
By Martha | January 4th, 2008•As Roswitha pointed out in the comments, it's being reported that Inter are preparing to make Luis Jimenez's move to the club permanent by buying ...
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 ...
Newbies for Genoa and Fiorentina (Juve Get Nothing)
By Martha | January 4th, 2008Finally, transfer are starting to trickle through. Granted, the most noteworthy so far are the ones Juve aren't making (Branislav Ivanovic? Nope, sorry. Ever Banega? ...
Mega News Roundup As We Wait for the First Mega Deal
By Martha | January 2nd, 2008Sory this is so epic, I'm headed to the airport and wanted to pull together as much as I could before I'm at the mercy ...
Ujfalusi Staying in Florence; Gets Hilarious "Compliment"
By Martha | December 30th, 2007Liverpool have been eying Fiorentina defender Tomas Ujfalusi for at least a month now, and given how the Czech and his agent have been talking, ...
News Roundup As Everyone at Milan Gets a Day Older
By Martha | December 28th, 2007•Sampdoria's world-class whiner Andrea Caracciolo could be on his way out of yet another club this winter, possibly to Atalanta. I wonder if it's ever ...
News Roundup as We Try to Get Back to Work
By Martha | December 27th, 2007•Milan did NOT give permission to Flamengo to talk to Ronaldo! They want to keep him and his gimpy leg and his steadily growning hair ...
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 ...
Week 17: Inter Winter Champions
By Martha | December 24th, 2007With their derby victory yesterday, Inter secured a seven point lead going into the break, keeping that distance despite the wins of both teams behind ...
Nedo Sonetti Needs a Hug
By Martha | December 21st, 2007Pity poor Nedo Sonetti. He took a job with a club that was barely hanging on when he arrived, led them to losses in matches ...
That Other Cup: Viola March On
By Martha | December 21st, 2007A largely first-choice Fiorentina side defeated Mladá Boleslav (the team that knocked Palermo out) 2-1 in their final UEFA Cup match yesterday, tying up second ...
10 Things We Learned About Serie A This Weekend
By chris | December 18th, 2007A new installment in the weekly "10 Things We Learned About..." series. This one of the Italian variety. 1. Antonio Cassano is a train wreck. No, this ...
Lazio 2 - Juventus 3: No Time To Nap, There's Much To Be Done
By roberto | December 17th, 2007Despite being as talented as any goalkeeper who has come before him, El Grande Gigi unfortunately had no time for beauty sleep in the game ...
Sampdoria v Fiorentina: Totally Effing Insane
By Martha | December 16th, 2007That refers to both the match and Antonio Cassano, but mostly to Cassano, who had a meltdown of truly spectacular proportions when he got a ...
Rumors to Distract Us As We Mourn For Frey's Knee
By Martha | December 13th, 2007•Sebastian Frey is having surgery tomorrow and will probably be out 6-8 weeks. That faint sound you hear is me weeping copiously. •And, continuing with the ...
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 ...
Lazio's Goalkeeping Crisis is For Real
By Martha | December 13th, 2007So far this season, Lazio have been able to get past Grandpa Marco Ballotta's periodic howlers and the shocking collapse of Deer in the Headlights ...
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