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Book Review: El Clasico by Richard Fitzpatrick

Rocco Cammisola — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 13:53:09 +0000

El Clasico, Barcelona and Real Madrid, is one of the biggest games in World football. Richard Fitzpatrick’s books subtitle goes further still, posturing that it is “Football’s Greatest Rivalry”. For some casual fans of Spanish football the fixture is now spoiled by a fidgety and overly combative atmosphere in recent encounters. This is could be [...]

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My Sweet Sixteen – Why Serie A should reduce in size

Editor — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 11:10:58 +0000

Collapse of a system Italian football is facing a time of crisis in terms of both financial and sporting performances. Clubs are struggling in the European Cups, they have lost power in the transfer market, and the appeal of the league for foreign investors has plummeted – they are choosing La Liga and the Premier [...]

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Euro 2012 diary: Özil unable to link Germany

Rocco Cammisola — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 11:13:01 +0000

While the so-called excruciatingly named “group of death” looked tantalising on paper with 4 great teams together in one group, there is always the possibility that games between big teams can be a little dull – Germany versus Portugal was a perfect example of this. Germany were some way short of the benchmark set by [...]

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Euro 2012 diary: Criticism harsh for the Netherlands

Rocco Cammisola — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 08:17:00 +0000

Despite qualifying for the tournament as the winners of Qualification Group H Denmark had been earmarked by many as the whipping boys of Group B – on the basis of having fewer well-known players and Nicklas Bendtner. Indeed, for the first 20 minutes of their opener against the Netherlands it appeared that even they believed [...]

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Guest Post: Calling Doctor Petkovic

Rocco Cammisola — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 21:10:38 +0000

It’s been a while since any sort of update has happened on here, and for that I apologise profusely. In the mean time Lazio have been busy appointing a new Coach after Edy Reja parted ways with the Rome club. The new man, Vladimir Petkovic, is a relatively unknown Bosnian who comes over after a [...]

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Side project: Ground Tweet

Rocco Cammisola — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 21:14:21 +0000

In conjunction with BootifulGame.com we have been working on a little application that is just a little bit of fun for people to play around with. GroundTweet shows you what football ground your followers would fill (or your tweets, if they were people). Whether you use your own or someone else’s twitter account, have a [...]

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Lega Pro Special – Play Off Preview

Steve Mitchell — Sat, 19 May 2012 08:45:33 +0000

After nine months of intrigue, accusations and points deductions the end of season Lega Pro play-offs have arrived. Over the next few weeks nerves will be shredded, tears will be shed and, for the lucky few, glory will be tasted. We start in C1A were the four teams involved in the end of term lottery [...]

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Lega Pro Special – End Of Season Review

Steve Mitchell — Thu, 10 May 2012 08:12:40 +0000

The regular season in Italy’s third and fourth tiers came to an exciting climax last weekend and while some players can pack their Louis Vuitton wash bags and head to the beach, others are left to sweat it out in the end of season play-offs and play-outs – where survival could mean the difference between [...]

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Scotland 1-4 Italy U21s – Azzurrini cause Scotland to scream blue murder

Editor — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 21:51:59 +0000

Edinburgh 25 April 2012 Ciro Ferrara brought his young squad to a very cold Easter Road for a last friendly before they resume their qualifiers next month against Ireland. There were a number of noticeable absentees due to the rescheduling of Serie A fixtures following the tragic death of Piermario Morosini, such as Stephane El [...]

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Lega Pro Special – Tension Rising In Season’s Final Stages

Steve Mitchell — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 09:15:32 +0000

A fabulously entertaining season in Italy’s third and fourth tiers enters its final few weeks of competition and for many clubs there is still everything to play for. In C1 division A, Ternana’s once seemingly unassailable lead is diminishing by the week as Mimmo Toscano’s side get stage fright at just the wrong time of [...]

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