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The Draw For That Other Cup
By: Martha |
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Holding the UEFA Cup draw a day after the Champions League groups are set will inevitably make the former pale by comparison, but today is nevertheless a massive day for four clubs in Italy with hopes of finishing the season with a bit of European silverware. Palermo, Fiorentina and Empoli all qualified for the UEFA [...]
Transfer Market Bits, Or: A Run on 31-Year-Old Strikers
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In 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 City to a Serie A club. (I know what you’re thinking — “What?! Does Sven know about this?”) It appears someone at Man City forgot Bernardo Corradi is Italian, [...]
Catching Up With the Champions League
By: Martha | 4 Comments
The Champions League draw was made yesterday and, as expected given their seedings, Milan and Inter have the easiest paths of the four Italian teams in the competition, with the Nerazzurri in particular coming away with a remarkably favorable group.
Having set the Champions League title as a goal for this season, Inter find themselves in [...]
Dubious WAG of the Week: Federica Fontana
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The observant among you will recognize Ms. Fontana from the special, Bobo’s Birthday WAG double-dip but, at the time, she was only a guest star, not an actual WAG. Recent word from the Roma section of The Offside, however, has it that she once dated Francesco Totti, and therefore is worthy of a post of [...]
Category: WAGsVictor is Sick and Should be Excused from Gym Class Today
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Victor Obinna really, really doesn’t want to play in Serie B. The highly rated, 20-year-old striker has been engaged in a summer-long dispute with Chievo (and sort of Inter, who originally brought him to Italy and may or may not actually own him still) because they won’t let him leave to ply his trade elsewhere.
At [...]
The Latest on Adriano: Still Breathing, Still at Inter
By: Martha | 3 Comments
Ok, this is actually getting sad. At last count, about 137 clubs from 14 nations have turned down the chance to sign Adriano on loan, and the big Brazilian has gone into serious pout mode, muttering about how unjust his treatment has been. According to Adriano, he deserves the chance to play because Inter owe [...]
Lazio Move on in Champions League
By: Martha | 7 Comments
Lazio pulled off a miracle today in Romania, coming from 1-0 down at the half (and a 2-1 aggregate deficit) to beat Dynamo Bucharest 3-1 and advanced to the group stage of the Champions League.
In addition to the insane number of players they’re missing through injury, Lazio went into the game without the suspended Massimo [...]
Of Coaches Suspended
By: Martha | 4 Comments
As we chortled gleefully about yesterday, the resident genius of French football, Raymond Domenech, has talked himself into a suspension for his team’s upcoming match against the Azzurri. After very specifically accusing Italy of buying the referees for an Olympic qualifier against France in 2000, he was sadly unable to come up with the “dossier” [...]
Milan Totally Almost Signed Henry. Take That, Haters!
By: Martha | 14 Comments
Milan may have done fuck all this summer (apart from signing an infant Brazilian who may or may not be the Second Coming), but they weren’t just sitting around, twiddling their thumbs. No, sir! Instead, they were busy doing really exciting things like almost signing Thierry Henry, and dreaming about Adriano. So there.
According to the [...]
A New Gig For the Little Inzaghi
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These days, you could be forgiven for forgetting that Pippo Inzaghi has a little (and when I say little, I mean he’s a child of 31) brother named Simone who “plays” for Lazio. Just a few years ago, though, Simone was flying high, scoring nine goals in 11 Champions League games (including four in a [...]
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