Wednesday 23 July 2008, 16:00
If Sopranos creator David Chase is on the look out for a new take on the Mafia story then he could do no worse than ponder a series around the colourful life of Giorgio Chinaglia. Tony Soprano actor, James Gandolfini, is already a dead-ringer for the...
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Tuesday 22 July 2008, 12:21
Well, that’s it, the paparazzi can abandon the beaches now. Christian Vieri is finally back in pre-season training so no more pics of the cankerous frontman cavorting in the sea with his svelte, young girlfriend. In fact, big Bobo’s new club Atalanta...
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Monday 21 July 2008, 13:46
It’s an old story of underhand dealings enabling bogus Italians from Argentina and other South America countries to gain European Union passports. Suddenly, players were finding untold numbers of ancestors from cholera-ridden, well back in the 19th century...
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Thursday 17 July 2008, 12:20
There’s nothing like a knockdown sales bargain to put a smile on a shopper’s face. So it’s no wonder AC Milan were whooping with delight as they ran up the street with a toothy Brazilian dressed in Snoop Dogg’s castoffs, tucked under one arm. It’s hard...
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Tuesday 15 July 2008, 12:24
Italian football and theatrics have gone hand-in-hand well before even Filippo Inzaghi threw his first hissy fit and dived out of his pram. And each year ahead of the new season, the referee’s association comes out with the usual platitudes about ‘cleaning...
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Friday 11 July 2008, 12:55
Inter fans are in no doubt that Frank Lampard will sign for the club but he isn’t going to have much time to win over such ever-demanding followers. In the die-hard Nerazzurri cafes in Milan they are not exactly raising their coffee cups to toast the...
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Tuesday 08 July 2008, 12:00
It’s almost two years to the day that Juventus started out on their long road to redemption. It was back in July 2006 that Giovanni Cobolli Gigli took on the task of rebuilding the toppled giants from the rubble of Calciopoli and humiliation of relegation...
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Monday 07 July 2008, 11:23
It’s no wonder Italian bookies give up quoting odds on Serie A games during the end of season run-in. They know that it’s time for favours to be called in; a point dropped here or there when a team is safe, a draw suits two sides, okay, a draw it will...
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Thursday 03 July 2008, 10:01
AC Milan have done the right thing and refused to offer Ronaldo a new contract. Although the Brazilian has claimed he will be running again in a few weeks, recent photos suggest he would find it hard trotting up the stairs. It’s nothing really to do with...
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Monday 30 June 2008, 11:30
Ah, summer. Time for Italian footballers to head to Sardinia for two weeks of sun, sea and whatever else takes their fancy. However, while his peers are clubbing the night away and indulging in the odd ice-cream or three, one player has kicked such hedonistic...
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Friday 27 June 2008, 11:26
Well, if you have been out of the game for around eight months why hang on and take an extra few days holiday? Thus Jose Mourinho has been marching around Inter’s training ground making sure everything is just so ahead of the squad’s return in mid-July...
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Wednesday 25 June 2008, 12:22
Italy doesn’t like to experiment and when it does it invariably goes wrong so it is no surprise that Marcello Lippi will be back leading the Azzurri in their 2010 World Cup qualifying campaign. The Italian football federation never really believed in...
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Friday 20 June 2008, 12:11
Here’s a new take on an old spin. “The only way I would leave Milan would be if Milan want to sell me.” The words of one Ricardo Kaka just 72 hours ago over speculation that Chelsea will make an offer that neither he or Milan can refuse. Rewind two years...
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Monday 16 June 2008, 11:14
Just when Jose Mourinho thought that he had the orchard all to himself to pick the best of European talent, along comes Gene Hackman’s doppelganger Felipe Scolari to knock over the apple cart. The feeling in Italy is that Chelsea turned to Big Phil partially...
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Tuesday 10 June 2008, 11:28
They started the evening blasting out the Brothers of Italy and ended it the country’s orphans. No mamma to dry their tears and no papa to bring order. While Marcello Lippi took on both roles at World Cup 2006, Donadoni seems very much the missing parent...
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