Monday Odds n Ends As Milan Are Victimized Again and Again

By: Martha | November 5th, 2007

Grumpy. •For the Milan fans among you, this morning I stumbled upon a fantastic gallery of screenshots of all the refereeing errors to which your team has fallen victim this season. Go check it out, and get your righteous indignation on.

•Cristiano Riganò had a hat trick yesterday for Levante, leading them to their first victory of the season. Unfortunately, Levante are dead last in La Liga, and Riganò is the only player on the team to score more than once (he’s got four goals). Their goal differential is -17 and they’re four points adrift of the rest of the table already, after only 11 games. Wonder what the drop feels like in Spain.

•West Ham are going to pay €20 million for Adriano in January? Sweet!

•Man City’s Rolando Bianchi has failed to settle in at the club and is looking more and more likely to return to Italy when the winter transfer window opens. In addition to being unable to score, he doesn’t speak much English and is apparently terribly homesick, poor man. According to press, Milan and Palermo are likely to be his most eager pursuers, the former for obvious reasons and the latter in search of cover should Amauri leave.

•Though both Francesco Totti and Alberto Aquilani are likely to miss Roma’s Champions League meeting with Sporting this week, Aquiliani is expected to be return to full training when the team get home from Lisbon, and will probably play before the end of the month. The people who know about what’s wrong with Totti, meanwhile, aren’t really talking; he could be back for the weekend visit of Cagliari, but they’ve been saying that for pretty much every match since he got hurt, so god only knows what’s going on with him.

•I’m pretty sure this banner isn’t racist, it’s just hilarious, albeit befuddling. Anyone who can explain it gets a gold star for the day, because I’m terribly confused — does the fact that “China” is in quotes mean something? Is it a reference to El Chino?

•For the first time this season, Ronaldo has been named in the Milan team for a match. Woo hoo! He’s finally fit, is making the trip to Ukraine, and could even figure in the match against Shakhtar Donetsk tomorrow.