Articles tagged with "lazio"
Week 36: Same Old Rossi, Can't Stop Scoring
By Martha | May 14th, 2007I don't know what to think about this Giuseppi Rossi thing. I get that the kid couldn't get on the pitch at Man U -- ...
Inter v Lazio: Thank Goodness for Crespo
By Martha | May 13th, 2007For those of you keeping track, Hernan Crespo has five goals in Inter's last two games; the rest of his team has one. Well. It's ...
Roma v Lazio: Clean Sheets All Around
By Martha | April 29th, 2007Not much in this one, really. Sure, there was the odd moment of brilliance from Mancini (who is really on fire lately), but it was ...
Quick Friday News Roundup
By Martha | April 27th, 2007•Maybe Roberto Mancini really has had a change of heart -- he's talking again about bringing more Italian players to Inter. Curiouser and curiouser! You ...
Weekend Wrap Up - Salutate La Capolista!
By Gianfranco | April 24th, 2007........after the 0-0 draw with Rimini, there go the Bianconeri, the real Bianconeri dominating Genoa 3-1 in a direct battle with some serious Serie A ...
Week 33, Or: Champs at Last (And Ranieri Works His Magic)
By Martha | April 23rd, 2007Thanks to a lackluster win over Siena and Roma's anticlimactic loss to Atalanta, Inter ended the weekend with their first on-field Scudetto since the 1988-1989 ...
Lazio v Fiorentina: Grinding Out a Win
By Martha | April 22nd, 2007After Wednesday's disastrous loss to Parma, it was really nice to see Fiorentina come out and take three points off a good team, particularly because ...
Week 31: Holy Crap, Look at Parma!
By Martha | April 9th, 2007Check it out, everyone -- the Tinkerman's magic has returned! Thanks to a spectacular late goal by Jersey boy Giuseppe Rossi, Parma took three points ...
Week 30: And the League Recedes in Inter's Rear View Mirror
By Martha | April 2nd, 2007For those of you keeping track, the lead is now 20 points with nine rounds to go, and Inter are closing in on the fabled ...
Week 29, Or: Three Cheers For Claudio Ranieri!
By Martha | March 19th, 2007Parma won, Parma won! So what if it was down to a questionable offside call? Ranieri finally got his first three points back in Italy. ...
Week 28, Or: The Tension Rises at Both Ends of the Table
By Martha | March 12th, 2007Apart from Inter's unrelenting sprint and Roma's respectable ability to put some distance between themselves and the rest of the table, things are really tightening ...
Week 26, Or: Look Out for Flying Pigs
By Martha | March 1st, 2007Yes, that's right: Inter actually dropped points yesterday. Let's have a moment of silence for The Streak, shall we? Thank you. I know it's going ...
Week 25, Or: Goals Galore
By Martha | February 26th, 2007Sunday morning I watched Fiorentina v Empoli on RAI. It was on La Grande Giostra Dei Gol, a five hour show that seems to combine ...
Former Mentor Tipped to Replace Mancini (Maybe)
By Martha | February 24th, 2007Ever since Roborto Mancini casually opened the door to his own departure by telling the press that an extension at Inter was "not a [mere] ...
Nesta Interrupts Sunbathing to Announce He'll Stay in Milan
By Martha | February 15th, 2007Usually I can sense it when footballers are in the US (My instincts are particularly good when it comes to the clients of that one ...
The Last Post About the Stadium Situation. I Hope.
By Martha | February 9th, 2007While there is still time for a last minute reprieve (read: for San Siro), at the moment in Serie A only the Cagliari, Sampdoria, Roma ...
Palermo v Lazio: Sigh
By Martha | January 27th, 2007Alright, it's becoming increasingly clear that the technical, confident Palermo we saw during the first months of the season was some sort of aberration. The ...
Oddo to Milan, Or: Free at Last, Free at Last -- Thank God Almighty, We Are Free at Last!
By Martha | January 23rd, 2007Today, friends, our long national nightmare is at an end: Lazio and Milan have agreed a transfer fee, and Massimo Oddo is finally leaving Rome. ...
Will the Oddo Drama Never End?
By Martha | January 22nd, 2007Right now, the man looks less likely than ever to go to Milan. Lazio president Claudio Lotito is still on full tilt after decided last ...
Lazio v Milan: An Oddo-Free Zone
By Martha | January 21st, 2007I know Valon Behrami has been publicly unhappy about having to play right back if Oddo ever actually leaves Lazio, but if Behrami The Back ...
Lazio, Palermo Presidents Going Gloriously Mad
By Martha | January 19th, 2007Imagine how much more fun the Premiership would be if Roman Abromovich ranted against the government rather than smiling inscrutably in his luxury box. Or ...
Another Day, Another Scandal
By Martha | January 18th, 2007Yawn. I'm sorry, what's that? Another scandal in Italian football? No! I'm sure you are as shocked as I am to hear that yet another investigation ...
Massimo Oddo: Lazio or Milan, He'll Bring His Dancin' Shoes
By Martha | January 18th, 2007Welcome, friends, to Week 401 of the Oddo-to-Milan transfer drama. The latest word is not good: Milan want the player, but apparently not enough to ...
It's Just So Hard to Play When People Talk About Our Dear Leader Leaving!
By Martha | January 16th, 2007Sure, the Oddo-(maybe)-to-Milan soap opera has been going on for way too long. The daily reports get old (as do the endless details about the ...
Newsie Bits: A Weekend of Conflict Resolution
By Martha | January 13th, 2007•Though I somehow missed that it was happening in the first place, the legal battle between Paolo Di Canio and Lazio is at an end. ...
Forget it, Milan -- Mrs. Oddo Has Spoken
By Martha | January 8th, 2007Oh, Adriano Galliani. You thought that by talking to Massimo Oddo and his agent about your continued interest in the player, you thought you could ...
Welcome to YouTube Tuesday!
By Martha | December 26th, 2006I have no idea if I'll ever be organized enough to make this an actual, reoccurring feature, but since it's a slow, holiday week, let's ...
Week 17, Or: God and Palermo Keep Ascoli Miserable. (Sorry, Ascoli.)
By Martha | December 21st, 2006Whew. Thanks in large part (obviously) to my intervention on their behalf with the Lord, Palermo thumped poor, winless Ascoli 4-0 yesterday. (In case you're ...
A Matrix-Heavy News Roundup
By Martha | December 19th, 2006•There's a pretty great piece in The Guardian's Sportsblog today about Materazzi, and how beloved he is by Italian fans despite his sometimes idiotic behavior. ...
Monday's Mostly Ill-Tempered News Roundup
By Martha | December 18th, 2006•More whinging about the referees: This time, it's Messina chief Pietro Franza who is playing the corruption card, blaming his team's loss to Inter on ...
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