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May 31st, 2009 | By: Julian | 33 Comments »

It’s called “Stop being an asshole.” And guess what? It’s mandatory. You’re taking part just by posting a comment in the comment section.

What’re the rules? Oh they’re fun and easy to follow for 90% of people who comment:

Do NOT insult, make fun of, or (hell) even mention someone else’s nationality. It’s absolutely irrelevant.
Feel like posting any racial slurs or insults? Enjoy the IP ban. Even if that fails I will delete every single thing you comment afterward.
Use common sense. There’s no reason for insulting other people. We’re here to talk about the Azzurri, not anything else. I don’t care if you’re Spanish, Dutch, Jupiterian… you’re welcome here as far as I’m concerned. So please don’t insult anyone else.

I’m sorry I had to dedicate a whole post to this since most of you guys are fine. A few posters were getting out of hand. Consider this your last warning.

Finally, if anyone is interested, I’m open to the idea of having a co-author for this blog. We could alternate days for posting, or have one of us do previews/reviews and the other editorials. I’m flexible and we can work out details once it’s OKed by Daryl. If anyone’s interested, please comment below (and follow the rules above, mind you) and I’ll email you with the detials.

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By alessio | May 31st, 2009 at 7:54 pm

Jackie, the problem is “9 champs leagues” aka Franco FC spoofs his IP. He acted as an Austrian troll here for a while, changed his name from “porchetta…” in general he’s just a bitter racist troll who probably lives at home with his parents without a drop of Italian blood.

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By Marco | May 31st, 2009 at 9:07 pm

Guys, let’s keep this to a soccer discussion. I think it’s good we have rules in place, let’s not continue with the useless name calling. There have been many changes in calcio over the last two weeks which I think have not been touched on. Let’s get back to work.

By Jose | May 31st, 2009 at 9:37 pm

Love the post.

By gio | May 31st, 2009 at 11:29 pm

Jackie, i think we all know, including Julian, that there is only one ignorant jackass responsible for all this … i think Julian is covering all the bases.

i do think it is worth starting a new section for. many thanks for the effort Julian, i sincerely hope it works. if not, ban the racist fucker.

hopefully now on to football

By Jackie | June 1st, 2009 at 12:03 am

Alessio & Julian, Thanks for letting us know who this racist porchetta
is and you guys aware of his rants.

By Sonny Sanfilippo | June 1st, 2009 at 12:47 am

Hey Julian,

I check this website hourly and would love to help you. I have a blog about sports in general called sportable.com.

Currently a Media Studies at San Diego State and would love to help. The Azzurri and Italian football are my life.

Let me know!

By Eric | June 1st, 2009 at 9:19 am

Semi-related Italy news: The Confederations Cup kits are not available on kitbag.com.

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By asem | June 1st, 2009 at 10:11 am

are the confed cup jerseys going to have names and numbers or just numbers? i wish they had some player-specific ones up on kitbag

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By Eric | June 1st, 2009 at 10:15 am

Whoops: By “not available”, I meant “now available”.

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By Mike | June 1st, 2009 at 6:18 pm

finally!

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By 9 champs leagues | June 1st, 2009 at 6:58 pm

Comment deleted – Daryl

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By Antonio | June 1st, 2009 at 7:24 pm

Stupid fuk, it’s sad that some people are so insecure about themselves that they hate on other people. Who cares what colour skin they have? I hope one of your kids marries a dark person, that’ll fix you right up you ignorant prick. And stop considering yourself to be one of us cz ur about as Italian as Inter

By Jackie | June 1st, 2009 at 11:49 pm

Hey Racist Porchetta
http://www.turoks.net/Policies/images/PopeVafanculo.jpg

By ilcapitano | June 2nd, 2009 at 8:31 am

hey Julian
I’m definately interested in blogging with you. I’m out of school and have nothing better to do during the day. I’m a sports journalism major, so I’d love to help out. Shoot me an email

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By alessio | June 2nd, 2009 at 12:00 pm

wow, racist AND antisemitic. keep digging, buddy. believe it or not, the fascist party is illegal under the Italian constitution.

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By Jorid | June 2nd, 2009 at 12:02 pm

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No more mentioning race/ethnicity

By Julian | June 2nd, 2009 at 4:34 pm

Those who volunteered to co-blog should get an email shortly

By Calafuria | June 2nd, 2009 at 5:52 pm

Thank you Daryl (Julian who is Daryl?) for finally deleting out 9 champs leagues/Porchetta’s ugly comments. It’s so sad when calcio discussions devolve into racial hatred. “Let’s keep it clean boys”

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By Julian | June 2nd, 2009 at 6:53 pm

Daryl is the head honcho of all things WCB/The offside related. And a really cool guy to boot.

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By Julian | June 2nd, 2009 at 6:54 pm

Just sent out emails to everyone who said they were interested. If I missed you, please comment back here

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By Jackie | June 2nd, 2009 at 10:44 pm

Daryl is:

http://www.theicepirateship.co.uk/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/daryl.jpg

By 9 champs leagues | June 3rd, 2009 at 4:10 am

Comment deleted – Daryl