Articles tagged with "serie-a"
With Ronaldo Watching, Milan Strikers Pretend They Can Score; Reality Eventually Intervenes
By Martha | January 26th, 2007In the first 25 minutes of yesterday's home leg of their Coppa Italia semi-final against Roma, Milan looked like world beaters. With Ronaldo -- on ...
Berlusconi Suing Football Because He's Losing Money
By Martha | January 26th, 2007Mediaset, AKA one of Silvio Berlsuconi's many media arms, is taking "legal action" against the Italian football league because, well, they're not making as much ...
Ronaldo in Milan; Berlusconi Tents Fingers Mr. Burns Style and Mutters "Eeeeexcellent"
By Martha | January 25th, 2007Various sources -- including irritated commenter RomaPete (whose irritation might stem more from his team's falling behind 2-0 after 20 minutes than anything Ronaldo is ...
Inter Crush Sampdoria, Or: Figo's Still Got It
By Martha | January 25th, 2007In the first leg of their Coppa Italia semi-final meeting with Sampdoria, Inter rolled to a 3-0 away win, with a certain Portuguese winger turning ...
Mancini and Mourinho: Musical Managerial Chairs?
By Martha | January 25th, 2007Under a fairly awesome headline reading "Mancini is Jose minus aggro," London's ever-reliable Sun reported today that Chelsea owner Roman Abromovich is totally over The ...
Ronaldo is So Close Ancelotti Can Almost Taste Him. So to Speak.
By Martha | January 25th, 2007Major press outlets (meaning things like the International Herald Tribune, as opposed to the football gossip rags we all love so much) are reporting this ...
WAG of the Week: Kristen Pazik
By Martha | January 24th, 2007I originally said that any potential WAG of the Week had to be involved with a man currently playing in Italy (or, if he's abroad, ...
A Couple of the Good Ones are Sticking Around
By Martha | January 24th, 2007During this time of frenzied transfer rumors and big-name players moving, bellyaching or agitating for changes, it's particularly nice to see a couple of solid, ...
Transfer Talk: Ronaldo Here, The Other Ronaldo not there, Giuseppe Rossi Everywhere
By Bob | January 24th, 2007It is that time of year again when the rumors are hot and heavy and fiction becomes reality. We’ll do our best to help you ...
Maccarone Coming Home
By Martha | January 24th, 2007Word on the street has it that Massimo Maccarone -- once a highly valued import -- is on the verge of ending his long English ...
Things Heating Up In Ronaldo Talks, Or: The Fat Man Looms
By Martha | January 24th, 2007Though they're still miles apart on the issue of a transfer fee, talks are now actually taking place between Real Madrid and Milan regarding the ...
Quick Odds and Ends for Tuesday
By Martha | January 23rd, 2007•Javier Zanetti, Inter captain and example to all who share his ancient age, is in such great form that he is being considered for a ...
Marco Materazzi, Man of Peace
By Martha | January 23rd, 2007Who would have guessed the World Organisation for Peace cared about football? In fact, they care so much about it they put together a book ...
Don't clown around, wear the nicotine patch while on trial
By Bob | January 23rd, 2007There are a few golden rules when you go on a job interview. Always look the interviewer in the eyes, offer up a firm ...
Transfer Zone: He's Oddo Here, Reyna Released
By Bob | January 23rd, 2007It is that time of year again when the rumors are hot and heavy and fiction becomes reality. We’ll do our best to help you ...
Coco is On Trial With Man City and ... Oh. Never Mind.
By Martha | January 23rd, 2007A week ago today, Inter defender Francesco Coco (You would be forgive here for saying "Liar! Coco is not at Inter!" because he's yet to ...
Oddo to Milan, Or: Free at Last, Free at Last -- Thank God Almighty, We Are Free at Last!
By Martha | January 23rd, 2007Today, friends, our long national nightmare is at an end: Lazio and Milan have agreed a transfer fee, and Massimo Oddo is finally leaving Rome. ...
Rumors and News for Monday: Everyone Loves Rossi and Andriano
By Martha | January 22nd, 2007•Giuseppe Rossi's agent has seized the occasion of his spectacular goal to shout far and wide about how many of the big clubs want to ...
Will the Oddo Drama Never End?
By Martha | January 22nd, 2007Right now, the man looks less likely than ever to go to Milan. Lazio president Claudio Lotito is still on full tilt after decided last ...
Di Vaio Comes Home, Hoping to Find the Scoring Boots he Left in Parma
By Martha | January 22nd, 2007After plying his trade in Spain and France, Marco Di Vaio is back (or he will be later today), hoping to regain the form that ...
Transfer Talk: Ronaldinho to MLS, Gerrard to Juve, Lampard to Barca
By Bob | January 22nd, 2007It hasn't been the most earth shattering of transfer seasons thus far and for the most part the usually silly talk that makes things so ...
Stevie G to Juve?
By Martha | January 22nd, 2007It's Monday, so there must be another Juve transfer rumor to talk about. Today, the target is a Brid: In addition to the 4091 other ...
Spanning the Globe: United Gunned Down, Inter Streaks On, Celtic Cruises
By Bob | January 22nd, 2007Chances are you probably don’t have the time to follow every football league in the world closely. Never fear. We are here to help. Here’s ...
Week 20: U-S-A! U-S-A!
By Martha | January 22nd, 2007Sure, sure -- there were a lot of story lines this weekend, from Inter's unstoppable run to Totti's sending off; from Oddo's non-appearance to Palermo's ...
Lazio v Milan: An Oddo-Free Zone
By Martha | January 21st, 2007I know Valon Behrami has been publicly unhappy about having to play right back if Oddo ever actually leaves Lazio, but if Behrami The Back ...
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 ...
Reggina v Palermo: Life Without Amauri Blows
By Martha | January 20th, 2007Last week's win against Udinese got us all thinking that maybe, just maybe, Palermo would be able to stay near the top of the league ...
Ascoli v Atalanta: Welcome to Hell
By Martha | January 20th, 2007Well, now that I've seen Ascoli play, I feel even sorrier for them and their pitiful nine points from 20 games. Though they ended up ...
Stop Press: Pavel's Back, and He's Plenty Bitter
By Martha | January 19th, 2007Hey everybody, guess what! Pavel Nedved's five-game suspension -- initiated, you might recall, but an evil, Juve-hating referee named Stefano Farina -- is finally over, ...
Lazio, Palermo Presidents Going Gloriously Mad
By Martha | January 19th, 2007Imagine how much more fun the Premiership would be if Roman Abromovich ranted against the government rather than smiling inscrutably in his luxury box. Or ...
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