Is it June yet?

By: Julian | November 17th, 2009 | 90 Comments »

I really don’t like friendlies. I don’t like the fact that people read so much into them when the players really don’t care as much; I don’t like the fact that we spend so much time analyzing them when they’re little more than practice sessions against players of a different nationality. At best they can show the desire of fringe players to step it up and make the first team. But overall, friendlies don’t really tell us much of anything. Read the rest of this entry »

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whether that comment contained elements of sarcasm, or that was right after Motta's bad game, i do n ...[read more]
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Motta should be starting? Come on, people. From RomaChris's blog a month ago- RomaNews likes R ...[read more]
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No doubt Motta should be on this team, let alone starting. But when you look at Lippi process and pl ...[read more]
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everyone has bad games. Cici had almost three months of garbage performances, Santon has had some me ...[read more]
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"lippi began introducing the Palermo players (Toni, Grosso, Zaccardo) to the national squad approx. ...[read more]
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