Quick News Round-Up as a Small Corner of London (Almost) Gets More Italian

By: Martha | October 1st, 2007

Hello, London! •John Gregory has finally been sacked by QPR; Gianluca Vialli and Billy Costacurta are still top of the list to replace him. Trust an Italian owner (well, if the takeover ever actually happens, that is) to bring in an Italian manager — I suppose he’s got more to choose from among his countrymen than the Americans, the Thai and the Russian, huh?

•Don’t look now, but Inter have five actual defenders on their teamsheet for tomorrow’s game against PSV.

•To the shock of no one who reads this site, Francesco Totti is dropping hints back coming back to the Azzurri. Sounds like he plans to let them get through the Euros and World Cup qualifying on their own, though, and would come back only for the World Cup itself. Is that faith in the team or incredible arrogance? Both?

•When his suspension for slapping that poor steward finally runs out, Jonathan Zebina won’t be out of the woods yet: The slapee is going to sue him in civil court. Doh!

•Oddly under-reported crowd trouble at the Turin derby resulted in 50 arrests yesterday. And, in a bit of news related to midweek crowd trouble, Inter have canceled all online and visiting section ticket sales for their match against Napoli next Saturday, and are selling tickets only face-to-face, with a limit of one ticket per person. Great. So, that’s one match without away supporters, one in a closed ground, dozens of arrests, and restricted tickets sales for a match — not to mention all the arrests of armed Lazio supporters during the week — all in less than two months. Jesus. And all these new rules are helping?

•Gila for Tomasso Rocchi? How’s that again?