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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

Posted by Chrissy at 10:47 PM 1 comments    

Labels: England, football violence, Internationals, Israel Russia, italy

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

Brazil have been the number one ranked team in the world since November 1993!

1 Italy
2 Brazil
3 Argentina
4 France
5 Germany
6 England
7 The Netherlands
8 Portugal
9 Czech Republic
10 Spain

FIFA World Rankings

Posted by Chrissy at 9:18 AM 1 comments    

Labels: Brazil, Fifa Rankings, Internationals, italy

Again from EPLTalk

What many UK expats discover upon moving to the USThey show more games on Television over here

I was shocked to find that out myself. There's also most Champions League and Uefa Cup ties, though you have to figure out a way to take time off of work to watch. You also get selected, La Liga, Serie A, La Championat, and Bundesliga matches as well as internationals if they are interesting. You do have to have digital cable and/or satellite to get them all, but the thing is, they are a lot cheaper than the corresponding services are in the UK.

Also exciting, we no longer have to pay 20 dollars at a pub to watch England lose in Euro, the group stages on are going to be televised on ESPN Networks not setanta premium. You can watch it at home on REGULAR cable!

Posted by Chrissy at 1:02 PM 0 comments    

Labels: Americans, Champions League, England, ESPN, EURO, Fox Soccer, France, Germany, italy, Setanta, Spain, television, Uefa Cup

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