

Articles tagged with "materazzi"
Inter v Parma: Jesus Effing Christ
By Martha | January 20th, 2008Jesus Christ, talk about unjust -- Parma absolutely had that game won, and fully deserved the three points. Inter were utter rubbish for most of ...
Inter v Torino: Still Rolling, Somehow
By Martha | December 9th, 2007It's amazing how many goals Inter can score even when they're not looking very good. They didn't create many chances against Torino today, but still ...
Champions League: Inter and Roma Both Through with Wins
By Martha | November 27th, 2007Today is Roberto Mancini's birthday, but Fenerbahçe's coach Zico doesn't care. In fact, he's got rather unpleasant intentions: "I'm hoping we poop his birthday party." ...
Inter v Atalanta: Zzzzzzzzzz.
By Martha | November 24th, 2007Ok, here's a question: If your team is up by a goal and has been under pressure pretty much the entire second half, is the ...
Azzurri: No Room for Pippo or Ale
By Martha | November 12th, 2007[If you're looking for the latest on the tragic events in Italy yesterday and their repercussions, go here. Serie B and C matches are suspended ...
Friday News Roundup As We Try to Stay Warm (When Did Winter Show Up?)
By Martha | November 9th, 2007•The Azzurrini side for the upcoming matches against Azerbaijan and the Faroe Islands was just announced, and both Roma-owned Alessio Cerci and Fiorentina's baby Argie ...
News Round-Up When There's Not Much Going On
By Martha | October 29th, 2007•Luigi De Canio has finally been confirmed as new QPR boss. (And that is officially the last time I mention that club here, I promise.) •Inter-haters ...
Laugh it Up, Haters
By Martha | September 14th, 2007As you may have heard, Christian Chivu picked up a shoulder injury in Romania's game last weekend, and sat out their midweek friendly as a ...
Azzurri v France: Yes, I Know I'm Behind
By Martha | September 10th, 2007The good news is that the defense looked surprisingly solid, Fabio Cannavaro seems to have remembered who he is and had a solid game and ...
Azzurri Squad Announced; Limited Room for Bitching Available
By Martha | September 3rd, 2007Roberto Donadoni, who has spent the last two weeks offering up sacrifices to a slew of gods in an effort to winpowers of miraculous recovery ...
Your Weekly Azzurri Health Update
By Martha | August 27th, 2007In good news, Marco Materazzi has left the hospital. Woo hoo! Of course, he's out for anywhere from two to four months, so leaving the ...
And the Nesta Talk Begins
By Martha | August 24th, 2007The official prognosis isn't even in yet on Marco Materazzi (the Inter site says, and I quote, "He will undergo routine checks during the day." ...
Newsie Bits, Mostly About Transfers
By Martha | August 23rd, 2007•The Cicinho saga is finally over, with Roma paying Real Madrid €9 million for his services. (Chris has all the details on this one, as ...
Matrix Out?, Or: More Azzurri Panic
By Martha | August 23rd, 2007The press in Italy is currently exploding with stories about the health of Marco Materazzi, and they get worse with each passing hour. At first, ...
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 ...
Looks Like Matrix Can Give Up On That Dinner Date With Vieira
By Martha | August 20th, 2007In an interview so ill-advised you wonder if he's ever talked to a reporter before or knows about things like "the internet" and "international media," ...
Weekend Odds and Ends as We All Laugh at Adriano
By Martha | August 18th, 2007•Despite having weeks more time on training than one of the players chosen over him, Adriano was left out of Roberto Mancini's squad for tomorrow's ...
Italy v France: Oh, it is ON!
By Martha | August 9th, 2007In an interview with a French newspaper yesterday, France coach Raymond Domenech went and played the conspiracy card nice and early, just in case something ...
Matrix, King of All Insults
By Martha | August 2nd, 2007The sports people at The London Times seem to be dedicating their summer to publishing lists of the 50 Best/Worst [intert football-related thing here]. So ...
Wacky Inter Rumors of the Day: Matrix, Solari in Demand
By Martha | July 26th, 2007Despite the profound lack of logic to the story, Spanish paper Marca is reporting this morning that Inter are considering a deal for none other ...
Inzaghi turned down RBNY, RBNY better off
By Gianfranco | July 24th, 2007Pippo Inzaghi claims to have turned down RBNY of the MLS, even though they would have “covered him in gold” which are the words that ...
Everyone, Stop What You're Doing: The MatrixShop is Open!
By Martha | July 13th, 2007If the internet at work started moving really, really slowly about an hour ago and you wondered what was going on, I have your answer. ...
Lawyers to Matrix: You Got to Get Your Game Face On!*
By Martha | July 6th, 2007*Note: This headline only works when read in the voice of Avery Johnson, so please indulge me and read it that way before you move ...
Loony Weekend News Roundup, Or: Even More Bobo!
By Martha | June 24th, 2007•One guess which English club is being connected with a Shock!Bid for a Serie A player. Yep, it's Spurs! Again. This time, their target is ...
Odds and Ends of Probably Untrue News
By Martha | June 18th, 2007•This one is true: Eugenio Corini has signed a one-year contract with Torino for which he'll reportedly earn about €500,000. Huzzah! While it would have ...
Cross-Channel Transfer Talks: Matrix to England, Bellamy to Italy?
By Martha | June 18th, 2007If today's papers are to be believed, that Spurs-Wilhelmsson thing we discussed over the weekend (the latest is that the winger is also wanted by ...
A little bit of movement in the Palermo Camp
By Giuseppe | June 16th, 2007I'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 ...
Footballer Vacations: The Exposé
By Martha | June 14th, 2007Looks like it's another slow news day in Italy, because La Gazzetta dello Sport has turned its sharp, investigative eye to the truly important subject ...
Azzurri Prepare (They Hope) to Spank Lithuania
By Martha | June 6th, 2007Combine all this Totti nonsense with the Azzurri's dismal performance against the Faroe Islands, and you've got a camp -- and a coach -- under ...
Return Of The Azzurri
By Chris | June 1st, 2007Tomorrow is the massive Italia - Faroe Islands derby, so here's a little video to get everyone back in an Azzurri mood. While you're at ...








