I’m getting incredibly tired of reading articles and having to sift through the enormous anti-Italian sentiment to find actual content. This happens all the time on British websites, and the latest culprit is WhoAteAllthePies.

For years all we’ve been hearing about is how great the English and Spanish clubs are, about how much better they are than our “aging” Italian clubs. Based on recent CL performances, that looks to be out the window.

Since we are down to the final 2 months of the decade, I’ll be doing some review posts looking back on what has been in Azzurri football since 2000, including all major tournaments, events, and of course the players of the decade.

Watching Juve-Napoli yesterday, I noticed something. If this is 4 out of our back 5 for South Africa, we’re going to be in some trouble. Canna struggled hugely with pacey guys like Hamsik and even GC looked a bit off his game. Grosso is still great going forward but defensively we’re going to need someone [...]

It’s official: Bobo Vieri has retired.

Vieri was a great striker, perhaps even the best in the world when he was at Inter from 1999-2005. He bagged an amazing 103 goals in 144 appearances during that time. He’s been to many clubs since, including stints and Fior and Atalanta, but in due time I’ll think he’ll [...]

One of the most frustrating parts of the qualifying campaign was the lack of goals scored by our strikers. Vincenzo Iaquinta can’t seem to buy a goal, Giuseppe Rossi hasn’t looked as great as he did in the Confederations Cup, and overall the team just didn’t finish well. But, is there a sign of life? [...]

The news is in. The top 30 nominees for the Ballon D’or have been announced. Check it out here.

We did it. No ifs, ands, or buts about it. My prediction was totally wrong, we were incredibly lucky, and we played like crap (or so I hear- I didn’t actually see the game). But I don’t care.

I won’t be able to liveblog but use this post to comment on the game.

It’s no surprise to anyone reading this that racism has become a huge problem for this blog. I am going to very clearly lay out the rules regarding racism:
1. It’s not allowed.
That’s it. You post a racist remark/derogatory term, and we will do our best to blacklist you and edit every entry you make from [...]