Articles tagged with "serie-a"
The Little Airplane Flies Away
By Martha | January 4th, 2007Thank you, Vincenzo Montella, for having a nickname so perfectly suited to a transfer headline. Several outlets are reporting this morning that the Roma player ...
Not Content to Polish Trophies, Canna Gets into Politics
By Martha | January 3rd, 2007I don't know how I missed this, but it seems a small group of Italian footballers (meaning: Fiorentina coach Cesare Prandelli and wor Fabio Cannavaro) ...
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 ...
Lurid Cassano Fantasies from Florence (And the World Convulses in Horror)
By Martha | January 3rd, 2007As itchy as it makes most sane people to even contemplate, Fiorentina coach Cesare Prandelli is unashamed of the fantasies he has about one Antonio ...
Figo Watch: What a Difference a Week Makes
By Martha | January 3rd, 2007Though the folks at Al Ittihad are oddly silent this morning, everyone else and his brother are all "Figo? To Saudi Arabia? Don't make me ...
Figo Watch: The Man is in Bahrain! I Repeat, the Man is in Bahrain!
By Martha | January 2nd, 2007The above photo just appeared on the Inter website. Take a gander, if you will, at the gentleman on the far left. He looks oddly ...
Greedy, Greedy Milan
By Martha | January 2nd, 2007Not content to cling to the middle of the table, Milan are at least talking a big game as the winter transfer window opens. In ...
It's the New Year, and No One is Going Anywhere
By Martha | January 2nd, 2007In a very unsettling change of tone, the Italian press today is full of flowers and sunshine -- instead of transfer rumors, today's news is ...
Figo Watch: The Agony Continues
By Martha | January 2nd, 2007Despite the fact that Al Ittihad's official website still insists the club will unveil Luis Figo as its newest signing on Friday, the internets are ...
Right Then: Who Wants a Football Club?
By Martha | January 2nd, 2007Since former owners Parmalat went bankrupt in 2004, Parma (then AC, now FC) has been in administration, run by a legally appointed board. The main ...
Becks to Inter, Or: Beckham's Press Agent Tries Desperately to Make His Client Relevant
By Martha | January 1st, 2007So, let me get this straight: David Beckham, a player who can hardly get on the pitch for Real, is going to step into Figo's ...
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 ...
Nuovo Anno Felice, Or: See You in 2007
By Martha | December 29th, 2006According to my friend Google, "Nuovo anno felice" is how you say "Happy New Year" in Italian. Needless to say, it probably actually translates to ...
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 ...
Would You Buy Used Lobster From This Man?
By Martha | December 29th, 2006You know it's a slow news day when a story about Rino Gattuso and crayfish is a)written, and b)reported on in detail here. There's very ...
Ribéry to a Serie B club? Guess which!
By Sam | December 28th, 2006Only once in a few thousand blue moons will you hear a Serie B club go on about signing players such as Miroslav Klose, Florent ...
A Roundup of Your Non-Figo News
By Martha | December 28th, 2006•If Corriere dello Sport is to be believed, we should add the perpetually unsettled Franck Ribery to the novel-length list of Juve transfer targets. Though ...
Cassano Moving Closer to Milan (or Not)
By Martha | December 28th, 2006Word from Spain is that, as rumored earlier this week, Antonio Cassano will be fleeing Madrid for the red side of Milan in the next ...
No Moss on Inter, Or: Nerazzurri Already Eying Figo Replacement
By Martha | December 28th, 2006Having finally offloaded their dead Portuguese weight that insisted on making goals every time he was allowed on the pitch (ahem), Inter are already looking ...
Oh, Those Wacky Spaniards
By Martha | December 28th, 2006Spanish newspaper Marca appeared on newsstands with a shocking headline this morning: The votes for the FIFA World Player of the Year were miscounted and ...
Pierluigi Collina Still Looks Like an Alien
By Bob | December 28th, 2006Admit it. Even with the imitators out there you've missed this face. Retired referee turned financial adviser Pierluigi Collina is making a football ...
Figo Watch, Day Two, Part Two: The Deed is Done
By Martha | December 28th, 2006Just a few hours after assuring myself and all of you that maybe, just maybe, Figo wasn't going anywhere, it's now being reported that the ...
Figo Watch, Day Two
By Martha | December 28th, 2006I've been busy shaking out my mourning clothes and ironing the black bunting for the site, but since yesterday morning there really hasn't been any ...
There are 8 Million Reasons for Luis Figo to Play in Saudi Arabia
By Bob | December 27th, 2006The Luis Figo transfer rumors have been floating around for awhile, but today was the first day that the Saudi Arabian club Al Ittihad was ...
A Roundup of the Holiday Odds and Ends
By Martha | December 27th, 2006•Francesco Totti, whose current contract doesn't run out until 2011, is already talking about a three year extension which would see him ending his career ...
'Tis the Season for Football Peace
By Bob | December 27th, 2006There is something about this time of year that leads people to put away their differences and to extend the olive branch of peace. ...
The Latest from Turin
By Martha | December 27th, 2006Whenever they can get their whiny Czech to shut up for five minutes, the news out of the Juventus camp is all about the big ...
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, ...
News to Ruin My Morning, Or: Figo is Going Where?!
By Martha | December 27th, 2006For those of us who pay attention to such things (we are small, pathetic group), the first half of the season brought endless rumors about ...
Real to Cassano: Here's Your Hat, What's Your Hurry?
By Martha | December 26th, 2006My grandfather used to wander through the room, handing out coats during family events when he wanted to go to bed. Suddenly, mid-conversation, you'd find ...
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