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July 9th, 2006 | By: Josh | 1844 Comments »

4 richly-deserved stars.

Malouda won the dive-of-the-tournament award within 6 minutes, and we overcame that HUGE obstacle.

We’ve never trailed in the tournament, and most teams would have crumbled… but what did we do??? We not only rattled the cross-bar within a few minutes, but equalized soon after on a brilliant goal.

We completely shut down Zidane, dispossessing him with clean tackles (the ball doesn’t lie) –time and time again.

And then we had the misfortune of having a beautiful, valid goal disallowed. As I mentioned a bit earlier, THAT WAS THE SAME EXACT WAY FRANCE SCORED AGAINST BRASIL — VIERA WAS IN AN OFFSIDE POSITION, BUT HENRY WASN’T. So Henry’s goal counted. Today, Toni was in an onside position, but his teammate to the nearside (i.e. farther away from goal, and not interfering with play) was offside. Toni’s goal was brilliant and he was onside. It should have been 2-0 Italia. But it remained 1-1. So we headed to our old nemesis… the penalties. And what did we do? We only exorcised our biggest demon with deadly precision and poise.

But again, it never should have gone that far as we should have won 2-0.

You could slice it and dice it and talk and talk and TALK (all you Italia haters out there, too many to name names) . . . but you can never take away our FOUR hard-earned, well-deserved stars!!!! Never.

Campioni Del Mondo Italia.

FOURZA ITALIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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By Jane | July 24th, 2006 at 3:02 am

Well the appeal should be finished anyday now, but maybe it is too late if all these players have decided to up and go already

July 24 2006

Juve say penalties will have devastating consequences for the club

Juventus have told the Calciopoli appeals court that failure to reduce their initial sentence could have “devastating consequences” on the Italian outfit. The Bianconeri are one of four clubs trying to reverse the CAF court’s initial judgement after the quartet were found guilty of sporting fraud.

Juventus were stripped of their last two titles, demoted to Serie B and handed a 30-point deduction for the 2006-07 campaign. That points penalty was found hard to digest by the Old Lady who have today been given a chance to plead for leniency.

“We estimate that Juventus will have to earn around 80 points – the equivalent of winning 27 matches – to just survive in Serie B next term,” argued lawyer Cesare Zaccone in front of the five-man appeal court panel.

Zaccone also reminded the hearing that if the initial verdict was not reduced it would seriously affect the club financially in terms of sponsorship revenue, TV rights and also hit shareholders. He also argued that the outfit, following the high profile departures of Fabio Cannavaro, Emerson, Lilian Thuram and Gianluca Zambrotta last week, had already been punished by the first grade sentence.

“The career for a footballer is short and some of our best players are world champions,” he continued. “None of them wants to risk two years in Serie B or, worse still, relegation to Serie C1.”

Juventus were implicated in the scandal after the publication of numerous phone calls between former director general Luciano Moggi and officials regarding the appointment of referees. As part of the investigation, Fiorentina, Lazio and Milan were also found guilty of wrongdoing during the 2004-05 campaign.

Lazio and Fiorentina have also been stripped of their Serie A status and will start with minus seven and minus 12 points respectively. Milan have kept their place in Serie A but have been deducted 44 points from last season’s tally which means they will not be allowed to enter the Champions League.

The Rossoneri will also start the 2006-07 campaign with a 15-point deduction in the First Division. All of the clubs are appealing, but so too is FIGC prosecutor Stefano Palazzi who has told the court that he wants Juventus relegated to Serie C and Milan to B.

It’s unclear when the appeal verdicts will be delivered, even if they are expected between Monday and Wednesday of next week. “I found an attentive court and they were taking lots of notes,” added Zaccone as he left for lunch. “We’re optimistic.”

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By Angry-Sunny | July 24th, 2006 at 11:14 am

Guess who’s back in the mf’in house!

How is everyone?

Rawky you lil son of a monkey bitc* hows it going?

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By Angry-Sunny | July 24th, 2006 at 11:17 am

Gawky you want to kill Materazzi’s face? man we have some proper idiots up in here.

How can someone kill someones face? The shi* I’ve got to put up with in here.

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By I Love Zidane | July 24th, 2006 at 11:31 am

Sunny welcome back hope you are not angry

Posted from United States

By Happy-Sunny | July 24th, 2006 at 11:36 am

@ Zidanes lover

I’m happy now that I’ve given Gawky some abuse

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By Happy-Sunny | July 24th, 2006 at 11:37 am

Where’s my sweetheart Jane?

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By French-Irishdownunder | July 24th, 2006 at 11:42 am

Well if Sunny can do it….

You Italian scum - VIVE LA FRANCE!

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By Happy-Sunny | July 24th, 2006 at 11:46 am

Irish is that you or someone else?

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By chris | July 24th, 2006 at 12:33 pm

why would u say you italian scum??? who do you think you are?

By Laurent | July 24th, 2006 at 12:46 pm

If italy can win euro 08 then and only then can they be compared to France 98 backed up by Euro 00…Most of the Italian supporter on this blog can never understand French family values.
ZIDANE THE BEST FOOTBALL PLAYER OF HIS GENERATION!!!!
After 110 min of getting step on …nipple pinched….banged up shoulder…and continuous insult ABOUT his mother…he did what needed to be done….I do not agree…. for selfish reason..[i wanted an other cup ] but ZIDANE A MAN WHO HAS IT ALL WON ALL THERE IS TO BE WON chose to get respect for his family…….
he values family above all …race nation and team….I say in the future Italian player will think twice before insulting one’s family…i don’t think they can understand it ….for they kill members of their families a la mafia style…
SEPT 6 2006
IN PARIS…..ALLEZ LE BLEUS
CASSER LES RITALS DE MES FESSES

BTW ANY OF YOU RITALS EVER HEARD OF JUSTE FONTAINE????

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By Joseph from Malta | July 24th, 2006 at 1:17 pm

Just Fontaine was the person who scorted most goals in ANY World Cup……I doubt he would be able to do anything of the sort with today’s defences, but that’s history for you.

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By Tamas | July 24th, 2006 at 4:16 pm

To Laurent,

Is not RITAL a racist nickname for italian emigrants?

I understand Laurent, it’s not easy for him to be French.
They are educated to be proud of great achievements in their history. Then, they go to school and learn that reality is a bit different.

They discover that unlike Asterix comics, gauls were continuosly beaten by romans, they jump to Charlemagne and they read that he needed the approval of the pope in Rome to be considered an emperor.

They move to Renaissance, sorry it was coming from Italy, a second civilization.

They are proud of their cuisin, but what happens? It has an italian origin, from Queen Caterina de Medici, wife of Henry II.

French is a beautiful language, but sadly it comes from latin (still the hated romans). These italians are everywhere.

People all over the world go to Louvre to see the most famous painting, La Gioconda (no Monna Lisa!) a present of Leonardo to King Francis the First.

Better to move to Napoleon, the great general, but he looks too much italian…like many other famous french (Jean-Baptiste Lully [Giovanni Battista Lulli] (1632-87) the famous musician, or Jean Paul Marat (Gianpaolo Mara) the famous revolutionist…

Take a pause, listen a song, the wonderful Yves Montand, pardon Ivo Livi, absolutely italian…

I understand, it’s something that causes depression, indeed “french are italians in bad mood” said Jean Cocteau… and he was not italian…

Apart irony, I live in France and love this country but this inability to accept defeat in the world cup (after all footfall is a game) is a shame. Simply.

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By chris | July 24th, 2006 at 5:36 pm

what is this? history class?

By kasets | July 24th, 2006 at 5:41 pm

Tamas…….thanks for the post

“french are italians in bad mood”……I love that line.

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By Jane | July 24th, 2006 at 6:55 pm

Sunny, this piece is interesting with the appeal hopefully concluding this week, it might be better news all round.

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Camo may stay Monday 24 July, 2006

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Sources in Italy suggest that Juve winger Mauro Camoranesi is ready to commit his future to the Bianconeri.

The 29-year-old met with new Coach Didier Deschamps today to discuss the possibility of facing Serie B football next term and there are whispers that he has accepted the step down.

Camoranesi has attracted interest from Villareal, Bayern Munich, Valencia, Roma, Lyon and Inter over the last few weeks.

But it is now thought that he may join Gigi Buffon, Alessandro Del Piero and Pavel Nedved in agreeing to remain in Turin, even if he must accept a pay cut.

The Argentine-born Azzurri international joined Juve in 2002 and has made 92 appearances for the Old Lady.

Juventus are nervously awaiting the result of their appeal against the Calciopoli verdict that may send them to Serie B with a 30-point deduction.

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By French-Irishdownunder | July 25th, 2006 at 3:28 am

Schizo Sunny -

You know it was me. How else am I to deal with the boredom of not have anyone to argue with!

Italian men are just a bunch of Shelias.(lol)

END NICE BLOGS NOW!!!!

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By Irishdownunder | July 25th, 2006 at 4:02 am

French-Irishdownunder-
Get behind me satan.

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By Irishdownunder | July 25th, 2006 at 4:04 am

Anybody, please HELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL ..P

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By Jane | July 25th, 2006 at 4:24 am

Hi Irish u probably don’t wnat to talk to me, think you prefer the males on the site but I’m here, good to see Buffon hasn’t jumped ship! Must be one of the best gozalies if not the best worldwide

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By Jane | July 25th, 2006 at 4:25 am

Anyway Irish hows the baby teething problem hope resolved

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By Marc Dorcel/Mario Salieri production | July 25th, 2006 at 8:42 am

Sunny?

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By Marc Dorcel/Mario Salieri production | July 25th, 2006 at 8:42 am

Irish?

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By Marc Dorcel/Mario Salieri production | July 25th, 2006 at 8:43 am

Jane?