Keepy Ups

Posted by Chrissy at 5:44 AM 0 comments    

Labels: italy, Lazio, Serie-a, Sven-Goran Eriksson, Things that make me laugh, things that scare children at night

I'm so angry right now about the state of Italian Football. I am ranting at a friend on IM over the corruption and violence and how everything just needs to fucking STOP.

1. After what happened in Sicily last year the whole season should have been behind closed doors
2. "Italian Bizzies Are ASSHOLES" from the beating of Man Utd Fans in Rome this year to today's shooting, these fuckers are out of control.    Something to be said against compulsory police service--if they don't wanna be there, they won't give a fuck.  HOW THE HELL DO YOU SHOOT SOMEONE TO BREAK UP A FIST FIGHT??  Further, I believe that a lot of the violence in Italy has escalated due to poor crowd control.  NOT hooliganism. 
   
3. Match Fixing -- How could a team punished for Match fixing be allowed to compete in MUCH LESS WIN the fucking Champion's League?   I'm not even going to get into the laughable punishment that Juventus received.  
   

It's just a horrible situation all around, obviously. While it's really easy to blame the people involved and the hooliganism which of course is a factor, the institutional corruption of Italian government and Football plays a much bigger part. I'm a radical at heart--so I see a lot of the violence as a reaction to this. Hopefully--this will be the sign that UEFA and FIFA need to clean up Italian football. If they can stop trying to deflect attention away by calling English (and Liverpool specifically) supporters the worst in Europe and actually pay attention to what's going on. If not, a lot more people are going to die both supporter and police.

Posted by Chrissy at 5:03 PM 1 comments    

Labels: Hooliganism., italy, Lazio, Policing, Serie-a

First off I need to disclose that the Eyetay part of my family is from Palermo---I also must disclose that the Palermo home kits are hot as shit.



On Friday afternoon, before going out to the pub, I was watching the Sicilian Derby on Fox Soccer Channel--complete with hilarious Canadian Commentary that accompanies non-English matches on Fox Soccer. I watched the whole thing unfold and had no idea what was going on because the commentators didn't know.

I'm ashamed to admit, when I thought it was just a lot of flares and smoke bombs as Christian Miles lead us to believe, I found the whole thing hilarious. Then I found out someone died.

I do not like the way, however, that the English officials are talking about how Italian officials need to look to England to take the violence out of football. How did England take the violence out? By making everyone sit down at matches and charge them 45 quid for the privilege? FOAD. Seriously!

Posted by Chrissy at 8:29 PM 4 comments    

Labels: italy, Serie-a, violence

Only I would start a blog late on a Friday afternoon when I am unshowered and the pub beckons. So here's a "hit and run" post about my pub fantasy league team and my premiership predictions for this weekend.

Please do not be jealous of my fantasy team. Now, this isn't a terribly complicated team. This is one of those things where you only get points for clean sheets, assists, and goals...so it's a lot different strategy than what you would pick for say Yahoo! or Premierleague.com, both of which I am kicking ass at btw--this one is for bragging rights down the pub tho.. so you know, I care more about it.

My predictions:
Liv'pool 2 v Everton 1
A Villa 1 v West Ham 0
Blackb'n 1 v Sheff U 0
Charlton 0 v Chelsea 3
Fulham 0 v N'castle 0
Man City 1 v Reading 1
Watford 0 v Bolton 2
Wigan 1 v Portsm'h 2
M'brough 1 v Arsenal 2
Tot'ham 1 v Man Utd 3


I will write about Joey Barton, Fat Frank, and the Sicilian Derby that I watched today when I get back--or tomorrow while watching Liverpool or something.

Posted by Chrissy at 4:49 PM 0 comments    

Labels: England, English Premiership, fantasy team, lulz, predictions, Serie-a