Articles tagged with "palermo"
Week 19, Or: Is There Such Thing as a One-Horse Race?
By Martha | January 15th, 2007Because if there is, I fear we're heading rapidly in that direction. Inter really look nearly unbeatable right now, and with Roma drawing, Inter's lead ...
Friday News Roundup: It's Almost Time for Football!
By Martha | January 12th, 2007•In case you missed it, Inter haven't lost a Serie A game in a really, really long time. In fact, if they beat Torino tomorrow, ...
While You Were Sleeping: Developments in Milan
By Martha | January 8th, 2007•Figo is an Arab: After what seemed like months of speculation, highlighted by total silence on the player's part and a Figo-free unveiling in Dubai, ...
Things Suddenly Look Much Darker in Palermo
By Martha | January 4th, 2007A moment of silence, please, for Palermo's barely breathing title aspirations: The scan of Amauri's knee today returned the worst possible results, and he'll be ...
D-Day for Palermo
By Martha | January 3rd, 2007January 4 is marked with a big, red "X" on calendars all over Palermo right now: Amauri, the team's best striker (not to mention its ...
They Don't Mess Around in Sicily
By Martha | January 1st, 2007I know this happened a few days ago, but that doesn't make it any less post-worthy: Rino Foschi, Palermo's sporting director, was a sent a ...
The Most Boring Transfer Rumors Ever
By Martha | December 29th, 2006Don't get me wrong -- you know I'm all about transfer rumors. Today's collection, though, is bland enough to put even the most devoted Serie ...
As if Things Weren't Hard Enough for Palermo Already
By Martha | December 27th, 2006According to La Gazetta dello Sport, Palermo's monumentally in-form striker Amauri damaged knee ligaments in his clash over the weekend with Siena keeper Alex Manninger, ...
Week 18, Or: While I Was Out
By Martha | December 26th, 2006As I was settling into the good cable-less Midwestern bosom of my family for the holidays, the first half of the Serie A season was ...
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 ...
In the Name of All That is Holy, Don't Let Ascoli Get Their First Win Today
By Martha | December 20th, 2006Dear God: You know I have bags of sympathy for Ascoli, right? Any team that hasn't managed a win in 16 weeks automatically has my ...
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. ...
Palermo Boss: What Have You Done for Me Lately?
By Martha | December 18th, 2006Christ, talk about a hard gig: After his team's dismantling by Roma, Palermo president Maurizio Zamparini decided that not only is he bummed out about ...
Week 16, Or: And the League Recedes in Inter's Rear View Mirror
By Martha | December 18th, 2006Another round of settling in for Serie A, with Inter continuing to roll (thanks in part to a goal by the ever-modest Matrix, who described ...
Roma v Palermo: Doh!
By Martha | December 17th, 2006Well, that was a thrashing. It was a fun game to watch, though, because until the third goal, Palermo were standing tall and fighting like ...
Palermo Go Out of Europe, Dammit.
By Martha | December 14th, 2006Despite the fact that it's for the best if they want to keep feeding that Scudetto dream, it's still sad that Palermo's European run is ...
Everything Looks Awfully Good in Palermo Today
By Martha | December 11th, 2006It's amazing what a convincing win can do for a team, huh? Just a few days ago, everyone who loves Palmero (including yours truly) was ...
Week 15, Or: It's Rosetti's Fault Yet Again
By Martha | December 11th, 2006Hmm, Roberto Rosetti. Where have we heard that name before? Oh yeah, he was the referee Palermo chairman Maurizio Zamparini accused of corruption after his ...
Palermo v Livorno: Crisis? What Crisis?
By Martha | December 9th, 2006That noise you heard earlier this afternoon, friends, was a collective sigh of relief escaping the lungs of Palermo fans. After a couple of bad ...
More on That Unmentionable Match in Parma
By Martha | December 4th, 2006I don't know about you, but sleeping on it didn't help me -- I'm still incredibly depressed by the memory of Palermo's performance yesterday, and ...
Week 14, Or: When it Became a Two-Horse Race
By Martha | December 4th, 2006I know there's really no excuse for the endless sucking of Milan this season, but look at the injury list they carried into yesterday's game ...
Parma v Palermo: I Think This is Officially a Crisis.
By Martha | December 3rd, 2006Those of you who recorded the game and plan to watch it later, ERASE IT NOW. Those who, like me, watch it live, please join ...
Dammit, Palermo. Win a Freaking Game Already.
By Martha | December 1st, 2006Alright, I'm officially worried: Just as Milan start to win, Palermo start to lose. Could it be that the world had (miraculously, gloriously) tilted on ...
The Man Cracks Down on Zamparini, Or: That's What You Get for Speaking Your Mind, Punk
By Martha | November 29th, 2006You know how we talked yesterday about Palermo bigman Maurizio Zamparini pulling out the big corruption guns while discussing the (in his humble opinion) horrendous ...
Why a Culture of Corruption is Handy: No Loss is Really Deserved
By Martha | November 28th, 2006Though the manager and players have been smart enough to keep their mouths shut, Palermo chairman Maurizio Zamparini is mad as hell about the officiating ...
Week 13, Or: Look Out, Here Comes Inter
By Martha | November 27th, 2006It's not the loss by Palermo that worries me -- they more than held their own, and given how ... oddly Fontana dealt with Ibra's ...
Cagliari-Palermo: Holy Hondurans, Suazo is Fast!
By Martha | November 19th, 2006How did he ever get to that ball? He was being tackled when Simplicio start running after it, and yet somehow he BEAT SIMPLICIO THERE, ...
Week 12 Previews, Or: Go Palermo!
By Martha | November 17th, 2006I'm about the leave for a day-long meeting and will be unable to post about thrilling, poorly translated articles from Italian sports papers (or anything ...
Palermo-Torino, Or: Palermo are Top! Huzzah!
By Martha | November 12th, 2006See, it's matches like this one that need to be shown to everyone who thinks football is boring and useless. The first half was a ...
Not So Fast, Amauri
By Martha | November 11th, 2006Just when it looked as if everything was finally in place for Palermo superstud Amauri to make his Azzurri debut, Donadoni goes and throws a ...
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