Friends Reunited

Is Lazio a sports club or a social networking service? If you have been looking in the papers or browsing through the internet, you are probably ...

Video of the Week: Sky Sport Italia commercials

In Italy, if you want to watch all things calcio, you watch Sky. Sky shows every Serie A game plus analysis shows and other shows ...

Transfer Talk: ...And Talk And Talk And Talk.

Just because a player was once brilliant on the pitch doesn't mean he'll be brilliant off it in the front offices. See: Zinedine Zidane. "Kaka has ...

Serie A Statistics 2008-2009

So we all know in American sports there are statistics for everything. On base percentage, field goal percentage, runs batted in, how many times a ...

Transfer Talk: Everybody In, Everybody Out.

Rumor has it Florentino Perez's first act after hiring Manuel Pellegrini will be to install a revolving door in the Bernabeu dressing room. Out will ...

Goals of the week: Giornata 38

So since this is the last time we'll be seeing Serie A goals until late August, this week I figured I'd show a video of ...

Serie A Weekend Round-up: Giornata 38 - Plus some coaching news

The last day of the season was a Sunday of goodbyes. Goodbye Maldini (retirement), goodbye Nedved (retirement, but may come back with another team), goodbye ...

Lippi makes Confederations Cup/Friendly call-ups and he officially hates Cassano

Today the list of 35 players was announced that will play in a friendly on June 6th in Pisa vs. Northern Ireland and the upcoming ...

Serie A Goals of the Week: Giornata 37

I'm sorry there was no Weekend Round-up this week, I was away for Memorial Day Weekend and then yesterday my internet was down, so I ...

Transfer Talk: Youth Is Served.

Liverpool mounted a €22m bid, which was then firmly swatted away by Aurelio De Lorentiis with a Dikembe Mutumbo finger wag, for Argentinian wild child ...

Goals of the Week: Giornata 36

It's time for another post of beautiful goals from the peninsula. There were 32 goals scored this weekend, and here we'll have a selection of ...

Serie A Weekend Round-up: Giornata 36

We've expected it for most of the year, but this weekend Inter were officially crowned Campioni D'Italia for the 17th time (now they are level ...

Serie A Goals of the Week: Giornata 35

Usually I just include the goals of the week into the Serie A weekend round-up but as Roberto stated in the comments this week there ...

Serie A Weekend Round-up: Giornata 35

Due to Livorno's loss on Friday, Bari were mathematically promoted to Serie A and will return to paradise after 8 long years of Serie B. ...

EPL Ramblings - Injuries, Transfers & Other Crap

Quite a lot of Premier League news lately, as there always is. One thing I've noticed is that quite a few players for EPL teams ...

Serie A Weekend Round-up: Giornata 34

I think the look says it all. What has happened to Juventus? Bologna-Reggina 1-2 Scorers: 40´ Brienza (Reg); 46´ Barreto (Reg); 87´ Moras (Bol) Report. Player Ratings. ...

Temporary Interruption to daily calcio news but videos to keep you busy!

Sorry for the lack of updates this week guys, but as many of you know its that time when college is ending and lots of ...

Napoli 1-0 Inter: We Should Be Ashamed Of Ourselves

First, let me say that I am not one of those fans who thinks my team is unbeatable. Quite the opposite, in fact. I think ...

Serie A Weekend Round-up: Giornata 32

Atalanta-Reggina 0-1 Scorers: 40´ Ceravolo (Reg) Report. Player Ratings. Highlights. Cagliari-Napoli 2-0 Scorers: 5´ Jeda (Cag); 92´ Lazzari (Cag) Report. Player Ratings. Highlights. Catania-Sampdoria 2-0 Scorers: 39´ rig. Mascara (Ca

Does Italy need a Reserve League?

Ever since 17 year old Manchester United striker Federico Macheda has scored those two goals in the last two league games, the Italian media has ...

Serie A Weekend Round-up: Giornata 31

There were signs and banners like this all over the stadiums of Serie A this weekend showing support to the region of Abruzzo and all ...

Serie A Weekend Round-up: Giornata 30

At the winter break, most people had already hypothesized that Chievo would be returning to Serie B next year. But with the arrival of coach ...

Milan v Lecce

Playing a relegation team is never fun, relegation teams are unpredictable, and the closer to the end of the season the more wild they tend ...

Daily Dose: March 24th, 2009

Something to read while you prepare for the Twitterpocalypse: (p.s. Follow The Offside on Twitter) Is this the key to eternal youth? (HABs Offsde) And would it fix ...

Serie A Weekend Round-up: Giornata 29

Yet another refereeing error. Napoli should've went up 1-0 with this play. At least it would've made yesterday's game more interesting. Full results after the ...

Napoli 0 - Milan 0

Ronaldinho entered in the 63rd minute, makes a cutting run pass Grava, the Santacroce, megs Cannavaro and scores top shelf on Navarro. He runs ...

Napoli v. Milan

Mannini and Possanzini suspension terminated

Remember the whole fiasco a couple of months back when Brescia striker Davide Possanzini and Napoli winger Daniele Mannini were suspended for a year for ...

Serie A Weekend Round-up: Giornata 28

Filippo "SuperPippo" Inzaghi scored his 300th career goal this weekend. Many people don't appreciate Inzaghi. They say he has no technique. They say he really ...

German Players Get Doping Nannies

A month back or so Hoffenheim men Andreas Ibertsberger and Christoph Janker got in a spot of trouble for showing up late to a postgame ...