Articles tagged with "materazzi"
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 ...
Throw a little wood on the fire
By Gianfranco | May 29th, 2007The Milan vs. Inter feud wages on with Gattuso calling for a meeting of captains to square things away. I think the language barrier ...
You can take your scudetto...
By Gianfranco | May 27th, 2007Insert whatever you want there, but those few words that Massimo Ambrosini help up on a sign at the Champions League parade has sparked a ...
Matrix: Not Going to Spain
By Martha | May 16th, 2007Though I can't find the damn article, Spanish sports paper Marca apparently reported this morning that Barcelona are gazing lustfully in the direction of one ...
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 ...
Inter v Empoli: Nerazzurri Kids Everywhere!
By Martha | April 29th, 2007What a weird freaking game this was. Because of the celebratory atmosphere, it felt more like a tribute match than an actual, competitive game that ...
The Last Post on Inter's Title, I Swear
By Martha | April 23rd, 2007After carefully going through all the photos at Getty and the Inter website of the team's endless celebration last night, I've come to the conclusion ...
Azzurri Headed to MLS?
By Martha | April 6th, 2007Former US footballer and one-time play-by-play man Glenn Davis hosts a regular show on a Texas radio station, the credibility of which I don't know ...
Jeez, Journalists are So Mean!
By Martha | March 29th, 2007In the wake of yesterday's decisive win over Scotland, much of the Italy camp has taken the opportunity to thumb their noses as the doubters ...
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 ...
The Brawl, in Bullet Point Fashion
By Martha | March 7th, 2007•By all accounts, Valencia's David Navarro really did just walk up, slug Nicolas Burdisso (who had the nerve to be arguing -- or fighting -- ...
Lots and Lots o' News
By Martha | March 1st, 2007•Serse Cosmi is back! Huzzah! Granted, he's in Serie B, but still -- he's around, and calcio will be better for it. •Not content to (correctly) ...
Inter v Cagliari: Yes, That's a European Record
By Martha | February 17th, 2007For the second week in a row, Inter were nothing more than functional, doing enough to win but rarely impressing. That said, however, it's hard ...
Winning the World Cup Finally Pays Off, Or: Mmm ... Pretty Motorcyles
By Martha | February 8th, 2007Though the AC Milan website seems to think the Azzurri are being given cars by MV Augusta Motor, as far as I can tell the ...
Weekend Newsie Bits: A Pouting Trifecta
By Martha | February 2nd, 2007•On the back of Massimo Marracone's near meltdown and Luis Figo's gruff, swarthy whine comes a pouty little gem from Alessio Tacchinardi. Now on loan ...
One Up, Many Downs for Milan
By Martha | February 1st, 2007Just a few days after the gala arrival of El Gordo, Milan stepped out on the pitch (Without Ronaldo, of course. It's going to take ...
Materazzi Headbutt #2, the Video
By Martha | January 29th, 2007Look, the video! The quality isn't great, but since you get to see the impact from roughly 40 different angles, it's hard to complain too ...
Sampdoria v Inter: Typical Bloody Matrix
By Martha | January 28th, 2007About eight minutes in, Sampdoria went down to 10 men and, though they put up a good fight, for all intents and purposes the game ...
Marco Materazzi, Man of Peace
By Martha | January 23rd, 2007Who would have guessed the World Organisation for Peace cared about football? In fact, they care so much about it they put together a book ...
Inter v Fiorentina: Lucky 13
By Martha | January 21st, 2007And Inter roll on. Man alive. The more I watch this team play, the more willing I am to believe that they're not going to lose ...
Torino v Inter: 12 Wins and Counting
By Martha | January 13th, 2007It was sort of anticlimactic, but Inter set a league record for most wins in a row today with a pretty easy 3-1 win over ...
Stop Press: France Football Proposes Love of Materazzi!
By Martha | December 26th, 2006According to the magical of Google translator, it appears as if France Football -- AKA the journal that awards the Golden Ball -- is suggesting ...
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. ...
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