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 [...]

That’s a scary looking title. Given what happened in the summer of 08, I think most of us would like to avoid playing the Dutch for oh… 20 years or so. They ripped apart our makeshift backline and handed us the worst loss we had in 30 years. They dominated the counterattack, had speed we [...]

As I’m sure you’ve all heard by now, German goalkeeper Robert Enke committed suicide yesterday. He was 32.

Next part in our series will be Korea Cup 2002, hosted, run, and fixed by our lovely friends in Korea.

No not the restaurant, silly. International friendlies!

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 [...]