Let’s Kick Some Belgian Ass

if anybody’s coming in with a “pompous attitude”, it’s YOU lamagica. you’re doing the same things you were claiming Steven was doing…

i’m just saying you should probably watch what you type first, before trying to call out others for the same thing.

aha, how mature! So, when’s he gunna get an IP ban from comments?
Do they do that here? I hope so.

Posted from  United States

Lamagica, your a class act time and time again, Roma fan? Instead of bitching and arguing and about this we should be worrying about Lippi basically picking players out of a hat for the this round of call ups with Bonera and Gila both getting their spots on the squad back for what? Potential!? Undying faith the to the cause!?

Maybe Lippi smoked one to many cigars during the Euro to notice that this team was not good and that a fair amount of changes needed to be made, and what did he do instead? Turn the clock back to August 06, some call Don Fabio to save this mess…

Posted from  United States

yeah, as mature as calling someone a “prick”, i guess.

i see how things work in your brain….mele gets his nose in someone else’s discussion, call’s him a prick and then suggests that that person get’s banned for responding to your provocation. you’re a bright one, arent you?

gf, there is nothing “pompous” about responding to petty provocations. take it up with the your fellow milanista idiot who comes in to ‘police’ a comment board. i understand it’ll be hard to get past your team / fellow supporter allegiance but i’m used to your way of thinking now with the whole ambrosini / gattuso debate during the wc.

Posted from  Italy

guys stop arsing around. Who cares? Let’s cat about Lippi’s line up for the game on Wednesday.

Posted from  Australia

Don Fabio? Yeah, so we can lose in the 1/4finals with a stacked team? The guy has a pathetic record in the CL….aka knock-out cups.

Lippi’s selections may be a bit strange but I think mostly ok. Legro deserves a callup over Bonera or Barzagli, but no slaughter/revolution, anyone who knows Lippi knows he wouldn’t go for it. Nobody could legit criticize Donadoni’s callups, he picked the men in-form…but clearly that’s not enough.

Posted from  United States

Yes lamaggica. twist everything everyone says.
I’ll police the comments if I please, because I love the offside and WCB and i don’t want to see some douche like you trash it.
@gian, he must be a roma fan =P

Lippi’s selections are all good with me, except for the attack. It just looks really lacking… Well we’ll see come game day.

Posted from  United States

What’s wrong with attack? I assume you’d swap Cassano for Gila, but other than that what do you disagree with?

Posted from  United States

hey lamagica…

im not a MILAN fan…ROSANERO is PALERMO not Milan…but that’s ok. And believe me, if ANY of the fans on this site are BLINDED by their allegiance, it’s ROMA supporters. For the most part, you guys will VILLIFY anybody who says one bad thing about any of your players.

besides, if you think you’re not making any “provocations” then maybe you should re-read your posts before you send them through.

Yeah, I’d trade Gila for Cassano, Di Natale for… Eh, I dont know really. On second thought, it does look like a pretty good squad.

Posted from  United States

I’d keep Gila. He’s been really consistent in all of Fiorentina’s pre-season games, scoring in most of them. I’d swap Di Natale for Cassano.

Posted from  Australia

OH GOD! looks like Chiellini is injured. Potentially from ‘3 to 6 months’. He dfenitely won’t be playing against Austria this wednesday. Who do you guys think should replace him.

Read story here:

http://www.channel4.com/sport/football_italia/aug17s.html

Posted from  Australia

Legro did.

Posted from  United States

lol. really, mele? twist? point out exactly how the sequence i mentioned is any different. i dont give a shit how much you ‘love’ your narrow little world known as the blog, i’ll chose to respond to whomever and in whichever way i want, particularly anyone that incites. last time i checked, you were jack shit in my world and that’s not about to change anytime soon. you should learn to come to terms with that so that you dont lose too much sleep in trying to preserve the sanctity of your cherished blog life.

lorenzo, apologies for mixing up your post with gf’s and i appreciate the lessons on the colour wheel and how they relate to your team. i also want to thank you for firmly defining the concept of “generalisation” of roma fans – i assume you want to lump me in there with ‘them’ even though there was no discussion on roma players to speak of here. as for provocation, do you know what that term actually means? it is slightly different than “retaliation”. again, if you can point out where i instigated, i’ll gladly concede and offer an apology to that user. i already scrolled up, as you suggested, but couldnt draw the same result as you did.

as for the roma fans that you speak of, i think you should first consider the tone and intent of guys like giro or kj (another fellow palermitano, right?…i wont generalise though), who come over with the sole intention of busting their balls rather than actually intending on carrying on a conversation. go check out steven’s recent entry and look at the comments relating to them mixing it up over at the roma board with steven actually encouraging it. there are a handful of other non-romanisti, maybe even including yourself, who do post there with good intentions but the bulk are consumed with riling up the roma fans for shits and giggles. also, i dont think you can generally blame fans of any team, for that matter, who ‘defend’ their players or team since it is the very essence of being a tifoso. however, i think you can agree that there is a disproportionate amount of flame throwing that goes on in the roma blog, initiated from outside users, that in turn, tends to be met with greater resistance and which may explain their tendancy to “villify” as you put it.

Posted from  Italy

Aha, lamagica you think people really read those moronic novels that you post? Get a life.

@mike de robbio
Gila was consistent, if not awesome at Parma too, and that’s why Milan bought him. Look what happened there…

Posted from  United States

mele, the comebacks are about as lame as your reasoning.

clearly you dont read simply because you’re incapable of anything more complex that dr. suess. i mean there were only 4 lines devoted to you and that must have been a real stretch. maybe that might also explain your incapability of grasping the sequence of events.

Posted from  Italy

I think people are completely missing the point here. Whether Italy disserved to win or not is not the issue, nor is it whether Italy played up to their standards or were able to score in open play. The issue is the inconsistency in officiating. If the first Belgium goal was too hard to call on the line you DON’T GIVE THE GOAL, makes sence to me. I mean they applied this rule to Italy’s offside call, why not the former. Too many bad calls to say this is human error. The refs have to make a judgement call and it’s difficult to do but I’m quite certain that when it’s a 50/50 call there are rules they follow so the judgement is consistent and fair. You can’t give the benefit of the doubt to the defending team on an offside and than give the attacking team the benefit of the doubt on the goal-line clearance. The problem is not the bad calls but the blantant inconsistency. 50/50 calls should either always go to the attacking team or to the defending team, not whatever the ref feel like on that particular day. This is the only fair way to do it without the aid of video replay. So what’s the deal? This sort of crap happens all the time, called back goals, goals incorrectly awarded, incorrect offside calls. If they would just make their calls more consistent across the board it would bring back some credibility to this sport. This game was just an example of the inconsistency that exists. Belgium were winning the 50/50 calls hands down and if you can just get past the fact that it was Italy playing in this game you would see that. You have all looked at the evidence, the still shots of the goal-line clearance, you just can’t tell, it’s too close to call. So what should the linesman do in this situation? (forgetting the Italy bias, pretend it’s a Brazilian clearing the ball off the line) What should the linesman do? Well logic would tell you that you do not award the goal, simply because there is not 100% certainty that the ball crossed the plain. What do you all think?

Posted from  Canada

Lamagica, does that not prove my point that I dont read your shit?
I think so, moron. Now get off the internet and find a life, because clearly the only thing you do all day is sit here and blather on about nothing just to be the douche you are. And the funny thing is, I bet if any of this came down to real life, and not some argument on a blog, you’d drop some fruit in your looms, mr tough guy talks trash on the internet!

I’m really sick of the inconsistency in referees. I mean, WC 2006 the ref gave a Croatian player THREE yellows before sending him off. I mean really, come on. They need to do something about the human error in the game, it’s just too much. And it’s not like they can’t now, there’s plenty of money and technology laying around they could use, I’m sure.

Posted from  United States

And lamagica, learn to count.

Posted from  United States

Everyone! I’ve found lamagica!
http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g101/ChunkyMonkey_03/morman2.jpg

Posted from  United States

really, all day, huh? funny, looks like you’re matching me post for post and, i believe you were the one claiming to protect the cherished blog. lol…what a fucking loser.

now let’s see, you actually take the time to go and seek out some random photo off the internet in an attempt to insult someone and then YOU tell them to “get a life”. once again, you’ve outdone yourself. calling you a half-wit would be a huge overstatement.

i knew it was only a matter of time that you’d resort to the “real life” tough guy talk after seeing you shooting blanks. lol. yeah, mele, i’m shitting my pants at the thought of confronting you in real life. what are you gonna do, hit me with your purse? if you want, i can play along and pretend to be scared, especially if it helps you with your illusion of feeling like a real man. in the meantime, you can at least lay claim to being a stupid person’s idea of a clever guy. that you dont need my help on. youre comebacks speak for themselves.

sorry, about all the two syllable words there , mele. next time i’ll keep it to, “one fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish”. that’s more your speed. lol.

Posted from  Italy

Sure. Sure. Whatever you say! But I know for a fact, if you weren’t hiding behind your keyboard and your tampons, you’d think twice.

Posted from  United States

Well Belgium just got distroyed in the semi-final, I guess the wrong team went through. Italy played poorly in the quarters but to lose 4-1 give me a break, what-a-waste.

Posted from  Canada

I didn’t expect them to win from Nigeria but 4-1 was just overkill. However, i hope they get at least a medal.

Posted from  Belgium

yeah okay, mele-anrethal, we get it. you are the tough bitch in these parts. we tremble in your presence. lol.

Posted from  Italy