Articles tagged with "fiorentina"
Lazio Fans: Again With the Racist Chants
By Martha | November 5th, 2007Lazio supporters have a well-deserved bad reputation, and they're seemingly working hard this season to make it even worse than it already is; their chosen ...
Week 11, Or: Draw Mania
By Martha | November 5th, 2007Seven of this week's 10 matches ended in draws -- some of them incredibly exciting, despite the shared points -- including those featuring three of ...
Lazio v Fiorentina: Blech.
By Martha | November 3rd, 2007A 1-0 win for Fiorentina from a game with not much in it. A lot of bad touches combined with some bad decisions and a ...
Odds n Ends as We Come Down From Our Collective Sugar High
By Martha | November 1st, 2007•In case you missed it, the ever-classy Adriano bailed yesterday when he found out he wasn't on the bench for Inter's match against Genoa. Rather ...
Week 10: Who Needs Totti?
By Martha | November 1st, 2007Finally getting a chance to play in the absence of Er Pupone, Mirko Vucinic cannot be stopped -- he scored Roma's first goal in their ...
Fiorentina v Napoli: BOBO! BOBO!!!!!
By Martha | October 31st, 2007I'm not sure I can be coherent about this match, but it was fantastic, and Fiorentina won 1-0 on a 61st minute goal from Bobo ...
Juve Rumor Fest
By Martha | October 31st, 2007I don't know if an informer just escaped Luciano Moggi's* secret mountaintop lair or what, but the papers today are just jam-packed with rumors about ...
Just Kidding About that Ban (Etc.)
By Martha | October 30th, 2007This just in: An emergency appeal by Napoli has seen Marcelo Zalayeta's two-match ban thrown out, and he'll be available to face Fiorentina tomorrow. Apparently ...
Genoa v Fiorentina: Pazzini! Falling Down!
By Martha | October 28th, 2007On paper, I suppose a 0-0 draw away to a midtable side is acceptable for Fiorentina, particularly after a tough match on Thursday. That said, ...
UEFA Cup: Villarreal v Fiorentina
By Martha | October 25th, 2007Well, damn -- Bobo came within about three minutes of being a hero in Spain this afternoon. As disappointing as a draw is after having ...
UEFA Cup: Viola Try to Stop Rossi
By Martha | October 25th, 2007[As you may have heard, Fiorentina are still in the UEFA Cup. As you also may have heard, I'm sort of a fan. So, yes, ...
Big Clubs Lining Up For a Little Seb Frey Action
By Martha | October 24th, 2007Shortly after Dida's little performance in Scotland, the media were full of reports about the other goalkeepers Milan would be pursuing when the summer transfer ...
Week 8: Is It Crisis Time Yet?
By Martha | October 22nd, 2007Milan lost to Empoli yesterday, blowing chances, making defensive errors, and generally looking punchless and grim, as they tend to do these days. Now, I ...
Fiorentina v Siena: Champions League, Anyone?
By Martha | October 21st, 2007Jesus, Fiorentina are good. I know Siena are in the bottom four and didn't pose that much of a challenge, but the Viola in the ...
Mutu Again Declares His Love For Fiorentina
By Martha | October 19th, 2007As we discussed in the comments yesterday, Adrian Mutu* is the rumored target of a whole lot of clubs, among them Manchester City (of ...
Viola Keep Montolivo a Little Longer, Eye João Moutinho
By Martha | October 18th, 2007Having extended their hold on Giampoalo Pazzini through 2011 earlier this season, Fiorentina have now also successfully ensnared his fellow (future) superstar Riccardo Montolivo for ...
The wild Vagner Love rumor...
By Magnusson | October 18th, 2007According to Tutto Mercato, the first name Eric Gerets gave his new bosses when he took over at the Commanderie was that of brazilian phenom ...
The World According to La Gazzetta
By Martha | October 16th, 2007Since we're through all of seven weeks of the season, the time has apparently come for serious transfer talk. To that end, today's print edition ...
UEFA Cup Group C Preview
By Ian Rose | October 11th, 2007This is the third in an eight part ... blah blah blah, get to the predictions. Group C is, in order of seeding: Villareal (Spain), AEK Athens ...
So Much Effing Dida
By Martha | October 11th, 2007Apart from having an opposing keeper play much, much worse than he did last weekend, not much has gone right for Nelson Dida since his ...
Assorted News Bits
By Inara | October 10th, 2007~~~~~~~~ I take back what I said about the away kits. The gold kit is fast becoming a favorite, whether paired with red or dark blue ...
Dutch Cheese Has Fewer Holes Than I Thought
By Gianni | October 10th, 2007Wait, it's the Swiss one that has the holes right? Dammit, I knew something wasn't right. Either way, Fiorentina barely squeezing past our favorite Dutch Dairy ...
UEFA Cup: Good Draw For Fiorentina
By Martha | October 9th, 2007The UEFA Cup draw was held this morning, and Fiorentina -- the only Italian team left in the tournament -- find themselves in Group C, ...
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 ...
Ranieri, Prandelli in Accepting Results With Class Shock!
By Martha | October 8th, 2007No matter which team you support, it's impossible deny that Vicenzo Iaquinta's goal for Juve yesterday was scored with David Trezeguet in an offside position. ...
Week 7, Or: Holy Crap, Gila Lives!
By Martha | October 8th, 2007This week's big story, clearly, is Milan's goal-plosion, led by Ricky Kaka and Alberto Gilardino (Wonder how Super Pippo feels about this), who is suddenly ...
Azzurri Call-ups: No Room for Del Piero
By Martha | October 7th, 2007Alex Del Piero will surely be thrilled to see Roberto Donadoni's list of call-ups for the upcoming Azzurri match* (a qualifier against Georgia and a ...
Fiorentina v Juve: Last Gasp Mutu
By Martha | October 7th, 2007The noise inside the Stadio Franchi must have been deafening for Juve -- their fans weren't allowed to travel, and the place was completely packed ...
UEFA Cup: Viola Go Through Alone
By Martha | October 4th, 2007And, just like that, Italy have gone down to one club in the UEFA Cup. Empoli were thrashed in Switzerland, Palermo struggled to a loss ...
Swedes in classic UC comeback, Italians fall
By Ian Rose | October 4th, 2007We have some early results from today's action in the UEFA Cup, and one of the big stories is Sweden's Helsingborg. Having lost their ...
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