Milan Return With Flair
By: chris |
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They were one of football’s hottest topics to kick off the season but got off to one of the colder starts. All that’s changed now, and done so with a little bit of pizazz. A 4-1 thumping of formerly top-of-the-tablers Lazio at the San Siro was enough to get the job done, but it was [...]
The European Weekend
By: chris | 2 Comments
After kicking off the Champions League & UEFA Cup, Europe goes back home and hasn’t left us wanting, giving us some very big and very interesting games over the next two days. Though it would be nice if they all go together and split the good ones up evenly between Saturday and Sunday…
Category: Bundesliga, Dutch Eredivisie, English Premier League, French Ligue 1, Serie A, Spain La Liga, World Football
Tags: AaB, Ajax, Bayern Munich, Bundesliga, Chelsea, Dinamo Zagreb, Dutch Eredivisie, English Premier League, FC Kobenhavn, Feyenoord, French Ligue 1, Hajduk Split, Lazio, Manchester United, Marseille, Milan, Monaco, Numancia, Real Betis, Serie A, Sevilla, Spain La Liga, Villarreal, Werder Bremen, World FootballSerie A 2008/9 Predictions: Week 1
By: chris | 16 Comments
Week one, also known as “throw shit against the wall and see how much sticks”. How will new players adapt? Which young’uns will turn into stars? Will another big club begin a rough year? Will Maurizio Zamparini fire someone before halftime? All questions we need answered which won’t be answered until at the very least [...]
Category: Serie A2008-09 Serie A Table Prediction
By: chris | 8 Comments
The point of predictions is to say something which will cause a lot of argument and chair throwing while everyone who slams said predictions gets it wrong in the end as well. And for anyone who does get it correctly, well, they’re just the luckiest son of a bitch alive. But it’s still a good [...]
Category: World FootballFugitive Former Cosmos Player and ex-Lazio Prez Giorgio Chinaglia Gets Hit With Mob Charges
By: Laurie | 3 Comments
Former New York Cosmos player Giorgio Chinaglia may be a lot of things, but you can’t accuse him of lacking audacity. If you saw the movie “Once in a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos,” he was the one with the biggest ego. And back in the 1970s, he [...]
Category: World Football Tags: Giorgio Chinaglia, Lazio, Mafia, mob, money laundering, NASL, New York Cosmos, Once in a Lifetime, World FootballTottenham 4-4 Chelsea, Lazio 3-2 Roma, Goals Galore
By: Daryl | 1 Comment
Two action-packed goal-filled games in two European capitals yesterday. In London, Spurs and Chelsea split eight goals down the middle at White Hart Lane. Chelsea had been 3-1 up before letting Spurs back in, and then Joe Cole must have thought he’d scored the winner when he received Drogba’s pass with a first touch that [...]
Category: World FootballFootball is the Only Cure for Gazza
By: Daryl | 5 Comments
Sad sad news about Paul Gascoigne today. The former Newcastle, Spurs, Lazio, Rangers and England midfielder was arrested at a Hilton Hotel in Gateshead (near Newcastle) and sectioned under the Mental Health Act. The now 40-year-old Gazza has had all kinds of drinking and depression problems over the years, which seem to have gotten worse [...]
Category: World FootballHow To Get Yourself Transferred 101
By: chris | 3 Comments
(Doesn’t he look a little bit like a Czech Chris Bale from The Machinist there?)
Start yapping to the press on deadline day. David Rozehnal started out the day in the northeast of England by spouting off to the press about how he was looking forward to talk to new boss Kev Keegan about his future [...]
Coppa Italia: The Kids Are Alright
By: Martha | No Comments
After playing mirror games on the first leg, both having players sent off very early in their matches, Roma and Inter managed to keep 11 men on the pitch this week and both picked up wins, taking another step toward what is becoming an increasingly likely rematch of last year’s final.
Category: Serie A10 Things We Learned In Serie A This Weekend
By: chris | 4 Comments
Rolando Bianchi should’ve just stayed in Manchester.
At least until the weekend was over. In what has to go down as one of the worst debuts in recent history, Bianchi came on as a substitute in the 60th minute against Torino - the club which wanted him desperately before his move to the foothills of [...]
Tags: Amauri, Azzurri, Bianchi, Cagliari, Cassano, Conti, Europe, Genoa, Lazio, Napoli, Pazzini, Pizarro, Rubinho, Sampdoria, Serie A, TorinoUEFA Dole Out Some Tiny Little Fines
By: Martha | 5 Comments
Apparently UEFA’s Disciplinary Committee doesn’t meet very often, because they’re just now addressing incidents that took place during Champions League Matchday 3. Better late than never, I suppose, particularly when you’re finally getting around to fining clubs for the racism of the their supporters. (A little late to do anything to make them stop on [...]
Dark Day in Italy
By: Daryl | No Comments
Despite the World Cup victory and Milan’s recent Champions League win, Italian football has seen some terrible times recently. There was the shame of the Calciopoli matchfixing scandal and Juventus’ famous relegation to Serie B in 2006. Then last season there was the death of a policeman during the Palermo-Catania game. Things got even worse [...]
Shocker: Another match fixing scandal in Italy
By: Bob | 5 Comments
We all thought that Italian football had turned the corner, right? We thought that the match fixing scandals were a thing of the past and that Serie A would soon become known for its integrity. Actually, you would have to have been deluded to have thought that. Sadly, the only corner that [...]
Footballers are Keeping the Lawyers Busy Today
By: Bob | 1 Comment
The legal affairs interns at The Offside have had a tough time keeping up with things the last 24 hours as footballers both past and present have been running afoul of the law. We start in Italy where police have issued warrants for the arrest of nine people in connection to allegations of price [...]
The Relegation Race in Serie A is Heating Up
By: Bob | No Comments
The Italian football season doesn’t start until the second week of September (if the scandal appeals don’t delay it further), but that doesn’t mean the competition isn’t already fierce, especially at the bottom of the table.
It was announced yesterday that Serie A side Reggina would remain in Italy’s top league but that the club would [...]
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