Articles tagged with "livorno"
Just When You Think It's Safe To Write A Match Review...
By roberto | October 23rd, 2007This week, La Juve garnered more applause than an a topless co-ed in spring break, more whistles than a guys night out at the bar, more red cards ...
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 ...
Livorno Host Peruzziless Team From Some City Called Rome
By Marco | October 20th, 2007THE POLITICAL DERBY ( that's what i'm calling it as of now) The fans will be primordial for this encounter. The heated atmosphere ...
Right: Who Had Orsi in the Sack Pool?
By Martha | October 9th, 2007Note: I'm getting on a plane for timezones far away in a few hours. You know the drill, I'll update when I can, but normal ...
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 ...
Week 6: Inter Go Top, Milan Continue to Struggle
By Martha | October 1st, 2007Both Milan teams have struggled by their standards this season, but this weekend Inter finally put and end to the talk of a crisis with ...
Livorno 0-Fiorosvaldo 3
By Gianni | September 30th, 2007Have you ever seen a game that can practically be defined as perfect? A game where just about everything you could have hoped for happens, ...
Minus Lucarelli and Toni but Plus an Ozzie
By Gianni | September 28th, 2007Well, I hope you weren't disappointed at the fact that I didn't post a Fiorentina-Roma recap. Personally, I thought there was such an inordinate amount ...
Mmm ... Refereeing Scandal
By Martha | September 26th, 2007In order to keep things on the up-and-up, referee assignments in Italy are not revealed to the public until the day before the matches. Of ...
Odds and Ends Ahead of the Azzurri Match
By Martha | August 22nd, 2007•FIFA's latest rankings came out today and the top five remain unchanged, with Italy third behind Brazil and Argentina and just ahead of fourth-place ...
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 ...
Home 
