Articles tagged with "players"
Costinha plays for Atalanta. Oh you didn't know? Neither did anybody.
By Francesco | November 19th, 2009As the title reads, former Portuguese international and ex-Mourinho pupil Costinha plays for Atalanta and is probably the biggest waste of money in all of ...
Bobo Vieri is going to live in Brazil for a couple of months, and play some football on the side.
By Francesco | November 16th, 2009Recently, it was reported everywhere that Christian Vieri was hanging up his boots. Vieri, at one time one of the most feared strikers in all ...
Pitch Invader wants Cassano
By Francesco | November 15th, 2009I know, the Cassano-National Team debate is getting old and boring. But this was too funny. In the 5th minute of the game yesterday, a ...
Azzurrini lose to Hungary, qualification in doubt, worst Italy U-21 team of all time?
By Francesco | November 13th, 2009The Italy U-21's continued their very disappointing qualifying campaign with another loss, this time away to Hungary. The Azzurrini needed a win to get back ...
Lippi-Cassano: The Real Reason?
By Francesco | November 10th, 2009Since Lippi has taken over the national team for a second time, the big question has always been, "Why aren't you calling up Antonio Cassano?" ...
Hooray for FC Hollywood
By Luke | November 10th, 2009First of all, apologies to all of you for a slow response to this most interesting of weekends. Although I don't blame the match, I've ...
Goals of the Week: Giornata 12
By Francesco | November 10th, 2009Fairly good week for goals, as only one game finished 0-0 (Catania-Napoli, but ask Takayuki Morimoto about that). The top scorer table is still wide ...
Fortress Ewood: 3 More points at home v Pompey + PODCAST?!
By Jimmy | November 8th, 2009Hello and welcome back to, what should be stable service one more, The Blackburn Offside. After my month long hell (aka internship) I am back ...
Atalanta - Juventus: "I'll trade you my Ciro for your Conte, maybe..."
By roberto | November 7th, 2009Antonio Conte was so close to taking the Juventus job over the summer and now he comes face to face with his old teammate Ciro ...
The Re-emergence of Raffaele Palladino
By Francesco | November 6th, 2009One of the players playing extremely well at the moment is Genoa fantasista Raffaele Palladino. Palladino has always been a player that could do things ...
FC Bayern vs Schalke 04: The Search For a Non-Stereotypical Storyline
By Luke | November 5th, 2009This is a terrific match for a lazy writer. So many storylines fall right into your lap. For this occasion, I could: a) ...
Great Serie A Games: Roma-Inter 1998/99
By Francesco | November 4th, 2009Roma-Inter from May of 1999 is another highly entertaining game from one of the most entertaining Serie A seasons of all time. The 1998-99 season ...
Cesc Crowned October's Player of the Month
By Martin | November 3rd, 2009It was just announced that Cesc Fabregas edged out Frank Lampard and Didier Drogba as the PFA Player of the Month for the month of ...
Haifa v. Juventus: Prove This Guy Wrong
By roberto | November 3rd, 2009"If Blanc wanted to show faith in Ferrara, he didn’t use the right words," Moggi writes in the Libero newspaper. "That sentence ‘there are no ...
Goals of the Week: Giornata 11
By Francesco | November 3rd, 2009A few nice goals this week, but nothing extraordinary. Giuseppe Mascara scored one of his trademark wonder-goals, and Marco Borriello got back on the scoresheet ...
Sochaux 1-4 PSG: Top Half of the Table!
By Thomas | November 2nd, 2009(unfortunately the first three goals of the match are unavailable for free on the internet) A few quick thoughts while you enjoy that beautiful Luyindula goal ...
Matchday 12: Sochaux vs. PSG or "Can it possibly get worse?"
By Thomas | November 1st, 2009As I'm sure you all know, last weeks Classico was postponed because Mamadou Sakho, Ludovic Giuly, Jeremy Clement, and Loris Arnaud contracted swine flu. The ...
Status Update: Diaby and Ben Arfa now friends!
By Sarah | October 31st, 2009We've all seen the video...you know the one I'm talking about (and if you don't its below the jump...and it is not a video displaying ...
Is Ben Arfa the new Niang?
By Sarah | October 31st, 2009Apparently he is the only one who thinks so! For those who watched the game this afternoon between OM and Toulouse, you may have noticed ...
Gignac: OM is the Club of my Heart aka the OM-Toulouse Match Preview
By Sarah | October 30th, 2009Match Background Gignac has already admitted the game this weekend against Marseille will be a "special'' moment. For those who don't know anything about Gignac beyond his ...
Sports and Politics..I guess they Mix in France
By Sarah | October 30th, 2009OM-PSG on the Assembly Benches "Yah! Always the same ones who are on the bench!" "On my mother, I am vexed!" Coming from America, I find it surprising ...
Fabrizio Miccoli: Giant Killer
By Francesco | October 30th, 2009Fabrizio Miccoli has really become the undisputed leader of Palermo. The diminutive fantasista, or il Romario del Salento as he is so aptly nicknamed, has ...
The Worst: Cheyrou in Fitness Battle for Toulouse
By Sarah | October 29th, 2009Cheyrou, our most consistent player and general star this season, may not be available for Deschamps to choose this weekend. He had an ultrasound on ...
OM-PSG: November 20
By Sarah | October 29th, 2009The LFP Office announced today that the Classico will be played on Friday, November 20th. The original Ligue 1 game that weekend against Sochaux ...
Adios, Jose Ernesto Sosa
By Luke | October 29th, 2009The club has confirmed that Jose Ernesto Sosa has been loaned to his old Argentine club Estudiantes de la Plata for the remainder of the ...
Fabianski Injured, Merida Negotiations Continue, Gibbs for England?
By Martin | October 29th, 2009Just several random things going on today, none of which really deserve their own post, so I figured I would just dump them in here ...
The Biggest Serie A Flops of the Last 9 years
By Francesco | October 29th, 2009Although we are only 10 games into the season, Klaas-Jan Huntelaar is starting to look more and more like a big flop. 15 million euro ...
The Enemy Of My Enemy Is My Friend
By roberto | October 28th, 2009tic toc tic toc tic toc... KABOOM!!! Tonight won't be the type of showcasing you hoped it would Cassano. If I'm Ferrara I'm betting you have ...
Goals of the Week: Giornata 9
By Francesco | October 27th, 2009I didn't put up a Weekend Round-up yesterday because I figured with the midweek round tomorrow, it would be pointless to update everything twice. So ...
So When Will the OM-PSG game happen?
By Sarah | October 26th, 2009The Classico fixture which was suppose to take place yesterday was postponed due to a Swine Flu Infection that has infected at least 5 members ...
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