Articles tagged with "messina"
Job Cuts in the Calcio Dungeons
By chris | August 4th, 2008To combat the number of clubs finding financial instability and even going belly up, Lega Pro, the new name for Serie C1 & C2 in ...
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 ...
Flachi's Coke Use Apparently Not That Bad
By Martha | June 4th, 2007After having two separate urine samples test positive for cocaine, Sampdoria's Francesco Flachi spent several months sitting around, waiting for the football league to hand ...
Totti is King of Europe (For Now)
By Chris | May 27th, 2007Roma 4 - Messina 3 Totti (10, 73); Mancini (19); Rosi (83) - Rigano (9, 58); Cordova (76) It's hard to get excited with The Incredible Hulk, ...
Roma v Messina (Also: Totti v Europe)
By Chris | May 26th, 2007For anyone who saw the Cagliari game last weekend, expect this one to play out the same. The result doesn't matter except for pride. Roma ...
Week 35: Bobo is Back!
By Martha | May 7th, 2007In case you missed it, Christian Vieri scored an absolutely sick goal yesterday, his first since his return from injury and a reminder of exactly ...
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 ...
The Crazy is Rampant in Serie A
By Martha | April 24th, 2007You know, just when you're sure Maurizio Zamparini is the craziest bastard in all of Italian football, a story like this pops up and you're ...
Calciopoli Just Won't Go Away
By Martha | April 13th, 2007I'm not even going to pretend I understand all the permutations of this or the potential biases that lie behind the various reports, but it ...
The Managerial Revolving Door Hits Messina
By Martha | April 2nd, 2007Is there another league in the world in which so many managers are fired and then rehired later in the season? Because it just happened ...
Hide the Children, it's a Cocaine Epidemic!
By Martha | March 12th, 2007Man alive, what has gotten into footballers these days? First Sampdoria captain Francisco Flachi was suspended with immediate effect (though I believe we're still waiting ...
Week 27, Or: An Evil Referee and a Rampant Fiorentina
By Martha | March 5th, 2007This weekend had everything -- charges of corruption, saved penalties, buckets of goal, and utterly gorgeous weather. (Did you see the stands? Those people were ...
Messina v Palermo: Just in Case You Needed Another Reason to Hate Caracciolo
By Martha | March 4th, 2007Wow. HUGE win for Messina, and another example of the towering selfish idiocy of one Andrea Caracciolo. There's got to be a point at which ...
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 ...
Messina Part Ways (Or Are About to Do So) With Giordano
By Martha | January 30th, 2007According to the official UEFA website this morning, Messina coach Bruno Giordano has been canned, and the club are set to replace him with Alberto ...
Keeper Rumblings in Milan
By Martha | January 16th, 2007Sidelined with a knee injury since late November, Milan's Nelson Dida could reclaim his spot in goal this weekend against Lazio. There is some doubt, ...
Messina v Roma: Handbags!
By Martha | January 14th, 2007This game -- a ragged, nasty 1-1 draw -- was so chaotic that I'm entirely incapable of writing about it coherently, so bullet points will ...
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 ...
Because you can never see too many splendid bicycle kick goals
By Bob | December 13th, 2006For all of you kids out there who have asked for a bicycle for Christmas, here is an early present. It comes courtesy of ...
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