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Roma 4-4 Napoli: Stop Saying Italian Football is Boring

A lot of people who should know better are still moaning about Italian football. "It's too defensive" they usually say. But while that may have ...

Making it hard on ourselves: Georgia 2-0 Scotland

Scottish fans have greeted this long run of wins with a combination of joy and worry. Obviously, we've been pleased with our position on ...

International round-up: Bentley snubbed again

Despite getting man of the match in our last game against Birmingham, and scoring a superb goal, Steve McLaren thought better of giving him another ...

Scotland-Italy rugby a preview of Euro 2008?

Scotland v. Italy. Winner goes to the next round. Sound familiar? Today, it wasn't Euro 2008 qualifying, but the Rugby World Cup, and Scotland ...

Scotland is FIFA's #14

After our brilliant return to Euro 2008 qualifying, with wins over Lithuania and France, Scotland has risen to its highest position ever in the FIFA ...

Moussilou is #21, national team announced...

In other news, Djibril Cissé, Gaël Givet and Samir Nasri have been called up for the french national team's next two matches.

Pre-season is PANTS, except when...

...It involves Inter beating Juve. Sure, it is only the Trofeo TIM at the Stadio Giuseppe Meazza, that tinpot trophy which involved three teams playing forty-five ...

Super Suazo - A Hungry Honduran

The signing of David Suazo will prove to be one of the best of any team in Europe over the coming twelve months. The Honduran ...

Bresciano to Man City

Mark Bresciano has left Sicily for the premiership. The deal was worth a reported 4MIL. I like Bresciano, but I think this was a ...

Glimpse From the Milan Match: Scholes Proves it's an Injured Knee and Not Wrist, That Kept Him Out of the Night's Proceedings

Inter Milan Benefit From Some Pretty Poor Defending

No fresh gravestone's needed after this one. Some shabby defending in all honesty, but it is pre-season -- so we can blissfully shrug our shoulders and ...

Quick Bit -- United Fall to Internazionale

Despite the defeat, it sounds as if it was a thoroughly entertaining affair for the bumper crowd of over 73,000 (not too bad for a ...

United Return to Old Trafford to Host Inter Milan

We're not far from season's kick-off, and Inter provide the latest warm up opposition, likely providing a sterner test than recently faced in Asia. Says ...

NEWS BITS....FIRST LOSS

This past weekend Palermo was handed their first defeat to Serie B side Lecce. The final result was 3-2. Matteini scored the first goal, and ...

HOLY SH*T!!!

I sure hope enough people read my blog page to get what I'm about to post. I was doing my daily net surfing, and was ...

Get Ready For the Return of Adriano

Remember how the Brazilian Adriano was an absolutely fantastic striker? And then all of a sudden he was rubbish: struggling for Inter Milan, looking like ...

Anfield Banter: Godwin watch, More Chiellini talk, Xabi & Stevie-G speak out, & that Man U dude

* Godwin Antwi garnered some praise from Hartlepool boss Danny Wilson after containing Obafemi Martins in the first half of Newcastle's 3-1 victory over the ...

Anfield Banter: Adam Hammill hat trick & nothing much else

There's really nothing new going on in LFC world, nothing major that is. The Giorgio Chiellini talk seems to be gaining some momentum, Crouchy ...

Giorgio Chiellini video

Twenty-three-years old and he already has a highlight video. Those Italians certainly love their kids. About three minutes in, he gets kicked in ...

Anfield Banter: Heinze, Mancini, Torres, & Giorgio Chiellini?

* Sorry this is so late, but honestly, there was really nothing to write about until the last hour and I'm saving that for the ...

Chelsea Team v Club America - FINAL SCORE FROM SAN JOSE

FINAL SCORE Chelsea 2-1 Club America Florent Malouda on his debut (second half sub) on 75mins John Terry with a flying header makes it 2-1 to Chelsea ...

The trouble with Harry

After reading this article, I have a new found respect for Harry Kewell. Turns out his injury problems stemming from last year's World Cup ...

Calm before the storm....

The most exciting signing thus far for Palermo was that of Serbian international Bosko Jankovic of RCD Mallorca, Jankovic plays either striker or attacking midfielder ...

Barzagli to.......Palermo?

Barzagli has been linked to Fiorentina and Juventus so It seemed he was definitely NOT going to be in pink and black next season. Word ...

A little bit of movement in the Palermo Camp

I'm not dead, really. This has been a really quiet week as far as Palermo is concerned. Martha over at the Italy OFFSIDE site has ...

Serie A Looking More Like Serie A

Serie A will look a little more normal next season, as some familiar names return to Italy's top flight. Napoli and Genoa played out the ...

Barzagli to Fiorentina?

Several sources have hinted Palermo center back Andrea Barzagli Is "very close to a Fiorentina move". Barzagli, one of Palermo's star defenders, has 8 national caps ...

Faroes 0-2 Scotland ... A win's a win

Well, that wasn't the prettiest win ever. Nowhere near as dominating as the last time we played the Faroes, 6-0 at Celtic Park, but ...

Should I Stay or Should I Go Now? ..or Transfer Rumors

Going Out? - David Di Michele Di Michele is being closely associated with a move to Roma I think maybe I was hoping it was kind ...