Articles tagged with "livorno"
Monday Odds and Ends As We Count Down the Minutes
By Martha | August 20th, 2007•In what is surely the biggest joke of the day, Roma's Simone Perrotta is being suspended for this weekend's season-opening match against Palermo. Why, you ...
Deja Vu All Over Again, Or: Riganò Sold to Two Clubs at Once
By Martha | August 15th, 2007Yes, that's right: Another player has apparently been sold to two different teams -- and this time there's no way anyone can blame Massimo Moratti ...
Repeat After Me: Preseason Results Don't Matter
By Martha | August 13th, 2007That's the mantra currently being chanted in the boardrooms of a lot of big clubs today after pretty much all of them -- Juve excepted ...
Dhorasooooooooooooo!
By Martha | June 28th, 2007*Tap tap* Is this thing on? You’ll excuse me for clapping with glee at this little bit of news -- among a pile of signings in ...
Odds and Ends Roundup From an Oddly Subdued News Day
By Martha | June 13th, 2007It's a holiday in Portugal, but the internet feels like it's a holiday everywhere. Am I missing something? •Most importantly for all of us, the Azzurri ...
Lucarelli: Staying, But Not 'Cause He Wants To
By Martha | June 12th, 2007Poor Cristiano Lucarelli. He had a falling out with the fans he loves and is disgusted with his club in general. He's finally had enough ...
The Latest Out of Palermo -- And it's Not about Guidolin!
By Martha | May 22nd, 2007As we head into the last weekend of competition, what the press in England call "The Silly Season" (AKA The Opening of the Summer Transfer ...
Fiorentina Sign Up Toni Replacement
By Martha | May 1st, 2007Mere hours after publicly making it sound as if he was rethinking his resolution to leave Livorno at the at the end of the season ...
Inter Dealing: Julio Cesar Renews, Moratti Eyes Lucarelli
By Martha | April 30th, 2007Though just yesterday our beloved Tribal Football was describing Julio Cesar as "unsettled" at Inter, La Gazzetta dello Sport reported this morning that the Brazilian ...
Lucarelli: Not As Cool As You'd Hope
By Martha | April 26th, 2007Since things between Livorno fans and Cristiano Lucarelli are a little hairy these days -- what with the team being accused of throwing games, and ...
Quick News Roundup Ahead of Today's Matches
By Martha | April 18th, 2007I don't even want to think about how unproductive I'm going to be today -- pray with me that no work crises erupt doing the ...
We've Got Transfer Rumors Coming Out of Our Ears!
By Martha | March 22nd, 2007•Though we've not heard anything about him in these parts since the end of the last year, it seems as if the perpetually unsettled Franck ...
Oh For the Love of God, Or: Livorno Sack Arrigoni Again
By Martha | March 20th, 2007Ok, so remember, way back in January, when Livorno were thrashed 5-1 by Atalanta? As a result team owner Aldo Spinelli went a little nuts, ...
Professore Lucarelli!
By Martha | March 19th, 2007I can't decide if this is hilarious or awesome or both, but Cristiano Lucarelli has been invited to teach a class at the University of ...
Livorno v Inter: The Hell?
By Martha | March 3rd, 2007Well that was a bizarre game. I need help understanding -- who saw it and speaks Italian? First of all, Maicon seemed to get a straight ...
UEFA Cup: And Then There Were None
By Martha | February 23rd, 2007Both Italian teams who managed to escape the group stage of the UEFA Cup lost yesterday and, since both had also lost in the first ...
Transfer Madness (And Other Newsie Bits)
By Martha | February 22nd, 2007•According to La Repubblica, Milan are planning to have quite a summer in the transfer market. Not only will they land Ronaldinho for a mere ...
UEFA Cup Update -- Or, if You Prefer, a "Cupdate." (Oh, Who Am I Kidding? No One Prefers That.)
By Martha | February 15th, 2007Playing with the inspiring accompaniment of their own echoing shouts, Livorno lost 2-1 to Espanyol last night, grabbing a late goal to head back to ...
Catching Up, Or: So Much News, So Little Time!
By Martha | February 14th, 2007• You may not have heard, but Kaka is now Italian. This is good for Milan because it means he's no longer and non-EU player, ...
Torino Suddenly Wake Up, Realize It's Transfer Time
By Martha | January 31st, 2007In the last few hours of the January transfer window, Torino have suddenly pulled off more big(-ish) deals that pretty much every other club in ...
Cristiano Lucarelli gets his Freak on during Goal Celebration
By Bob | January 19th, 2007You might be wondering why Cristiano Lucarelli is performing a simulated sex act on his Livorno jersey in the above video. That is a ...
All Hail Lucarelli, Or: That Sacking Was Just a Little Joke
By Martha | January 16th, 2007Last night I reported on the post-match firing of Livorno manager Daniele Arrigoni, and the subsequent player appeals -- lead by Cristiano Lucarelli, who is ...
Meltdown in Livorno!
By Martha | January 15th, 2007Despite being only four points out of the Champions League qualifier position, Livorno imploded this weekend. First, as mentioned earlier today, their 5-1 thrashing by ...
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 ...
That Other Cup. You Know, the One With All the Teams Nobody Knows Anything About.
By Martha | December 15th, 2006I was going to talk about the UEFA Cup draw (yes, that also happened today -- talk about bad timing), but first things first: Parma ...
Palermo Go Out of Europe, Dammit.
By Martha | December 14th, 2006Despite the fact that it's for the best if they want to keep feeding that Scudetto dream, it's still sad that Palermo's European run is ...
Palermo v Livorno: Crisis? What Crisis?
By Martha | December 9th, 2006That noise you heard earlier this afternoon, friends, was a collective sigh of relief escaping the lungs of Palermo fans. After a couple of bad ...
Livorno (Very Nearly) Crash Out of UEFA Cup; Parma Continue to Roll
By Martha | November 30th, 2006I've always wanted to say "crash out" -- thanks, Livorno! And they lost points in the most painful way possible, too: Our of desperation, they ...
Professor Amelia
By Martha | November 28th, 2006The Livorno website today is reporting that Marco Amelia is not only the most sought-after goalkeeper in Italy, but also something of an academic. No, ...
Quick, Steal the Keeper from the Best Small Team in Italy!
By Martha | November 27th, 2006Because they're not good enough but have a fair amount of money (or are willing to spend lots of dough that they don't have), Liverpool ...
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