Articles tagged with "torino"
Milan-Torino, The Return of El Gordo?
By Gianfranco | November 3rd, 2007I wanted to write a post about the possbile Big Ron return this weekend but then I came across and said, Why repeat something that ...
Just Kidding About that Ban (Etc.)
By Martha | October 30th, 2007This just in: An emergency appeal by Napoli has seen Marcelo Zalayeta's two-match ban thrown out, and he'll be available to face Fiorentina tomorrow. Apparently ...
Week 9, Or: Juve, Meet Karma
By Martha | October 29th, 2007Everyone at Juventus is convulsing with indignation (That's for you, Chris.) today after falling victim to two patently awful penalty decisions on Saturday and losing ...
Atalanta v Torino: How the Hell Did That Happen?
By Martha | October 21st, 2007For the first 65 minutes of this match, I was writing a post in my head about how Atalanta were going on the run I ...
Assorted News Bits
By Inara | October 10th, 2007~~~~~~~~ I take back what I said about the away kits. The gold kit is fast becoming a favorite, whether paired with red or dark blue ...
The Turin Tragedy
By Kshitiz | October 9th, 2007Result Torino 1 Sampdoria 0 (Corini 88') There is no better way to say this, we were the poorer team, didnt dominate play, we were down one man, ...
Odds and Ends as Inter's U-11s Humiliate Their Opponents
By Martha | October 8th, 2007•Last season I got all righteously indignant about Inter's Pulcini A team (they're 11 years old, and under) beating opponents by scores like 39-0 and ...
Fiorentina Hands Juve Purple Nurple: 1-1 Final Score
By roberto | October 8th, 2007To say both sides were playing for a tie would be gross propaganda. To say that our defensive unit played sloppy ...
Match Preview: Torino Calcio vs UC Sampdoria
By Kshitiz | October 6th, 2007Match Details When: 7/10/07, 3 pm ( 6:30 at my place) Where: Stadio Olimpico, Turin aka The bull stable of Turin Last Season's Meetings Last year, the two ...
Progress On One Contract in Turin, Or: Thank Christ, Rosina is Staying
By Martha | October 5th, 2007This morning, just as the rumors of his departure were really beginning to heat up, Channel 4 is reporting that Alessandro Rosina has agreed an ...
Fallout From the Turin Derby Arrests
By Martha | October 3rd, 2007Even though there hasn't been much talk about it, there were 50 arrests surrounding Sunday's derby match in Turin, and it looks as though, as ...
Serious Injury Woes for Torino, Roma (And Chievo)
By Martha | October 3rd, 2007There's terrible news for Roma this morning: Alberto Aquilani is expected to be out for two months with a partially torn quadriceps muscle. Having just ...
Contract Problems in Turin
By Martha | October 2nd, 2007Both Turin clubs are locked in difficult contract negotiations right now with arguably their biggest stars, with both Alessandro Rosina and Alex Del Piero apparently ...
Trez Secures Three For Juventus, One Point Behind First Place
By roberto | October 2nd, 2007As another week in Serie A rolls on, and the ever-present pessimistic, cynical, pathetic, feeble, and outright idiotic comments are being made ...
Another Day, Another Referee at Fault
By Martha | October 1st, 2007Someone is always pissed at the referees after a matchday, and today it's the Torino boardroom that's reverberating with impotent rage, blaming the officials for ...
Week 6: Inter Go Top, Milan Continue to Struggle
By Martha | October 1st, 2007Both Milan teams have struggled by their standards this season, but this weekend Inter finally put and end to the talk of a crisis with ...
Torino v Juventus: Typical Trezeguet
By Martha | September 30th, 2007Man, what an absolutely brutal loss for Torino. While they never looked likely to win, Toro fought Juve to a stalemate for 93 minutes and ...
A Couple Slightly Massive Games For Our Viewing Pleasure
By Martha | September 28th, 2007First and most importantly, we have the proverbial top-of-the-table clash between Inter, AKA The Team Without Any Defenders, and Roma, AKA The Team That Plays ...
Thursday Odds and Ends as We Shake Our Heads in Disapproval
By Martha | September 27th, 2007•Luca Toni continues to completely own the Bundesliga, scoring his fifth goal over the weekend, while wee Giuseppe Rossi scored one and setting up another ...
Palermo v Torino: That'll Do
By Martha | September 16th, 2007People, for a team full of washed-up old men, Torino are awfully good. Despite having a ludicrously shaky defense, they're tough as nails and damn ...
Corini Going Back to Palermo; Zaccardo Wants Him to Stay
By Martha | September 14th, 2007Normally there'd be little interest in Torino's trip to Palermo on Sunday (and I'll admit that I might be the only one who cares, even ...
How would FC Dallas do in Europe?
By Robert | August 31st, 2007If there was ever a question to provoke an argument over soccer (football) this is it. People from the “we called it soccer, then we ...
Transfer Market Bits, Or: A Run on 31-Year-Old Strikers
By Martha | August 31st, 2007In a bit of news so shocking it needed to be triple checked, it's being reported today that a player is actually moving from Manchester ...
Odds And Ends As Adriano Preens in the Stand
By Martha | August 27th, 2007•Despite a weekend full of loan rumors and the Inter brass practically begging the Brazilian to take his unflatteringly snug Armani tops elsewhere, Adriano's agent ...
Lazio v Torino: That Rosina Guy, He's Not Bad
By Martha | August 25th, 2007First, and most importantly: This game featured a female announcer on RAI and a female linesman. And the latter was wearing shorts, not the horrible ...
Repeat After Me: Preseason Results Don't Matter
By Martha | August 13th, 2007That's the mantra currently being chanted in the boardrooms of a lot of big clubs today after pretty much all of them -- Juve excepted ...
More Strikers On the Move (Or Not)
By Martha | June 29th, 2007If reports in the Italian press are to be believed (and at least one of them has already been denied), a couple of desirable strikers ...
Loony Weekend News Roundup, Or: Even More Bobo!
By Martha | June 24th, 2007•One guess which English club is being connected with a Shock!Bid for a Serie A player. Yep, it's Spurs! Again. This time, their target is ...
Odds and Ends of Probably Untrue News
By Martha | June 18th, 2007•This one is true: Eugenio Corini has signed a one-year contract with Torino for which he'll reportedly earn about €500,000. Huzzah! While it would have ...
Mmm ... News Roundup
By Martha | May 10th, 2007•As Gianfranco over at the Juventus blog reported yesterday, Juve target Torsten Frings just did a rather abrupt about-face -- he was loving Juve just ...
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