Articles tagged with "mutu"
Inter Skate (Again) and Bobo's Pissed
By Martha | June 23rd, 2007Earlier this year, Christian Vieri filed a €20 million lawsuit against Inter Milan and an Italian telephone company, alleging that the club had tapped his ...
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 ...
Barca Launch (Hopefully) Doomed Bid for Adrian Mutu
By Martha | June 18th, 2007It was reported in a couple of places this morning that, having wrapped up the La Liga season, Barcelona immediately turned around and threw themselves ...
Weekend Odds and Ends
By Martha | June 16th, 2007•Spurs are supposedly interested in signing Nantes property (and RomaChris' primary object of disdain) Christian Wilhelmsson who, to this point, has spend the off-season in ...
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 ...
Weekend News Roundup: Playing Catch-Up
By Martha | June 2nd, 2007•So, Luis Figo is definitely not going to Saudi Arabia. (I guess that talk of appealing to FIFA to declare the contract void was just ...
Milan v Fiorentina: So Much Ability, So Little Actually Going On
By Martha | May 6th, 2007Despite my love for Fiorentina, I have to say Milan were unlucky not to take the full three points from this one -- not only ...
Did Flachi Sacrifice His Career For One Totally Awesome Party?
By Martha | May 4th, 2007As you may or may not recall, Sampdoria's Francesco Flachi was immediately suspended in late February when traces of cocaine were found in the pee ...
Fiorentina v Chievo: Hells Yeah!
By Martha | April 29th, 2007That game (which I finally finished watching) was just all kinds of awesome. Let me count the ways: 1. Riccardo Montolivo being the best player on ...
Lazio v Fiorentina: Grinding Out a Win
By Martha | April 22nd, 2007After Wednesday's disastrous loss to Parma, it was really nice to see Fiorentina come out and take three points off a good team, particularly because ...
It Should Just Be News When Zamparini Isn't Raving About Something
By Martha | March 24th, 2007The thing that's most frustrating about Palermo resident psycho president Maurizio Zamparini is that about 60% of what he says actually stems from very reasonable ...
And Now Fiorentina Are Upset. Not Crazy, Though. There is That.
By Martha | March 13th, 2007Now that the Palermo authorities have had their say, it's time for Fiorentina to step into the fray and do a little shouting about who, ...
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 ...
Zamparini has Officially Lost his Damn Mind
By Martha | March 12th, 2007Not content to just rant furiously and periodically threaten to leave football ("this time I am not kidding!"), Palermo president Maurizio Zamparini has now introduced ...
Another Meltdown in Palermo
By Martha | March 12th, 2007Right on the heel's of last week's "Our losses are due entirely to bad officiating, and have nothing whatsoever to do with our play on ...
Flachi Screws Up. Again.
By Martha | February 21st, 2007Though it wasn't talked about much in the English-language press, Sampdoria captain Francesco Flachi missed two months early in the season thanks a FIGC-mandated ban. ...
Fiorentina v Udinese: Problemi Muscolare
By Martha | February 11th, 2007In case you were wondering why Luca Toni and Adrian Mutu were both absent from Fiorentina's teamsheet today, the above is your answer. Problemi muscolare. ...
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 ...
Mutu Hearts Florence
By Martha | December 20th, 2006The transformation the team-trotting Adrian Mutu's image has undergone in this last few years is amazing -- arguably the most in-form foreigner playing in Serie ...
Fiorentina v Milan: Forget the Game, Let's Kill Ray Hudson
By Martha | December 16th, 2006Reasons Ray Hudson should never be allowed near an open mic again: 1)He either doesn't know what "brave" means, or doesn't know any other adjectives. Either ...
Week 12, Or: How Can Seven Goals Be Grim?
By Martha | November 20th, 2006Is it weird that I found the Roma-Catania match really depressing? You'd think any game that featured seven goals would be thrilling and exciting and ...
Week 11, Or: Damn You, Inter!
By Martha | November 12th, 2006Sigh. Despite never looking particularly impressive and falling victim a pair of nearly miraculous saves from Parma's backup keeper, Inter managed to squeak out a ...
In Which Entirely Too Many Words Are Devoted to Adrian Mutu
By Martha | November 6th, 2006Watching the Roma-Fiorentina game yesterday -- particularly the uninspired first half -- I had a lot of time to think. And, apart from the obvious ...
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