That's what I thought but didn't dare to express here! it looked involuntary to me. it should have been disallowed, but since it didn't, he can't be punished for it now. Gila's handball must have been something like Messi's copy of Maradona's hand of God, totally voluntary. Adriano just looked like a dork who can't head the ball properly for a second to me.

So today there was a full round of games in Serie B.

The top 4 teams in the league are separated by 3 points. #1 Livorno leads #2 Bari on goal differential only. These two teams played each other today and drew 1-1. Parma moved up to #3 on a 92nd minute own goal from a Frosinone player. Brescia moved up to 4th with a 3-0 mauling of Ancona.

Fishdoll and I are supporting Bari.



(don't diss the chicken)

Betrayal!

(But we do cheer for Young Alberto when he plays. Surely that counts!)

btw, Cristiano Lucarelli hasn't played the last two games for Parma. Sat on the bench both times.

Heard he's going out...problems with the coach and all that.

Should we be interested? As a backup to Borriello? Would be cheap too...

And Pippo was offside twice on Sunday...what else is new?

No no no no no no no!!! can't you see how unlucky we've been with such signings before!? have you forgotten Vieri and Amuroso [spelling?]...

You mean Amoroso. He wasn't so bad. But I'd take Nicola Amoruso over him. Anyway, Lucarelli as back-up...not bad either.

Vieri was a great signing. He said "Now I might even win something...". On the field? Who cares about that.

^^^
True....

Maybe we could land Darren Bent... He's been pretty amazingly effective for the amount of time he's played. Or Bianchi. The Darren Bent of Serie A.

I think the sooner Milan stop this policy of signing old players, the better. we have too many of them already...

very true Zed...what's the point wanting to sign beckham for 18 months? its ridiculous..The sooner they stop signing old players the better

well in that case brocchi should be in hall of fame

Programming note: All 3 Italian teams competing in the CL will play this Saturday. The schedule is (all times Italian time):

4pm Bologna-cugini
6pm Roma-Siena
8:30pm Palermo-Juve

Why, what did he say about inter?

Bologna 1- 2 inter

Poor Bologna !

Sons of bitches! I thought they were going to drop 2 points...

so did i until that goal came in

What's most annoying is that everyone scores for them. They're so damn lucky in that aspect, even Jimenez has scored... And now Balotelli... coming of the bench...

Glory Glory Man United!!!

Palermo - Juventus

Juventus go 1- 0 up thanks to a goal from a Sissoko solo effort not bad for a mid !

Trezeguet got the second.
FT Palermo 0 - 2 Gobbi

They seem to have their injured guys back -- Trezeguet, Chiellini and Camoranesi played the full 90. Might be a bit of a danger doing that only a couple of days before the Cl game with chelsea.

ranieri is a super genius. But i think they know realistically CL is not something they will win this season. There going for scudetto hoping that inter will mess up.

Mourinho AND Ranieri?

Candido Cannavo, editor of Gazzetta dello Sport from 1983 to 2002 (and still writer of a daily column in the paper) died of a stroke in Milan. He was 78.

RIP.

There's going to be a minute of silence before the games today in Cannavo's honor.

How many minutes of silence did they give to the 500+ murdered children of Palestine during the month long bombardment of Gaza ?

Don't ask. Don't even ask!

How many minutes of silence for the leaders of democracy who are being slaughtered by the death squads of the president of Syria, Abbas?
How many minutes of silence for the thousands of people who are going to die because of the mass emmigration of cholera infected zimbabweans who are now heading towards South Africa taking their maladies with them?

So many questions, so few answers! That's why I despise the word 'politics', it's my least favorite word. Same goes for the faith in humanity. As if nature isn't cruel enough, we have people fighting and killing each other, and making life miserable for everyone. Even though the planet has the same level of resources, land, and people, greed gets the best of humans.

Believe me, ever little thing that happens, it affects everyone. Whether they feel it or not. If not now, then it very well could down the road. Such are the times we live in. Oh well.

One halftime score for Locke:

Fiorentina 0 - 1 Chievo (goal Morero)

Not a lot of scoring today so far.

Foggia scored a nice one for Lazio away to Lecce.

Capuano scored for Catania against Reggina.

The mussi volanti strikes again!

That's all political. In my opinion they are right not to go there.

Who go where?

Serie A is right not to go into making political statements.

Either that or Pana is talking about backdoor lovemaking...you can never say with that one...

It's nothing to do with that, in my opinion. It just has nothing to do with the club, or Milan. I can only understand silences for people associated with the club that die, disasters in the area/country.

What Jack said. Take anything you like.


That too.

It wasn't a political statement.

One score of note:

Napoli 0 - 1 Genoa

A group of ultras have blocked the Napoli bus from leaving the stadium (the players are still in the dressing room).

I agree with dst .. a moment of silence for people involved in the sport or a national figure's death.

@Locke president of Syria is not Abbas, its Bashar Al Asad. Abbas is the president of Palestine, and he doesn't have death squads .. There are two fractions in Palestine, Hamas and Fatah (Fatah is a fraction of the PLO - Palestinian Liberation Organization - and Abbas is their figure head. While Hamas are the democratically elected government of Palestine), I'm guessing these are who you refer to .. But they are not death squads, they are freedom fighters who retaliate when Israel drive Palestinians out of their homes and builds settlements in place of those. But all you see on tv is when they retaliate and thus are labeled terrorists or death squads or whatever.

Anyways, I am not trying to derail anything from this thread neither this forum ... But it just hurts when you have over 500 children murdered by random bombardments on their homes and surroundings - with no place for shelter and a moments of silence given to someone who has lived a full life

+1 very well said.

If they had to that for every tragic incident happened around the world, they would have never gotten a chance to actually start the game!

Seems like I mixed the names up a bit...I wasn't thinking about Hamas this time to be honest, what I'm referring to is how Syria is undermining every Lebanese attempt to stabilize their country.
As for Hamas, well I refuse to call people who strap bombs to mentally retarded children and send them into super markets to blow themselves up freedom fighters. Neither do I find their habit of hiding amongst palestina's civilian population particularly admireable.

Anyways, we're so off topic here that some mod or another is bound to take action soon so lets just say I agree that 500 dead children is horrible no matter the circumstances but as Zed says there will always be tragic events.
There will always be some kid who gets run over by something big with wheels.

There simply aren't enough minutes for every one of them to get a silent one.

That is sad. That's why I hate it when we post about Travolta's son's death (honestly, who?) here but not about things like that. We suck.


That's not proven. The opposite is not proven either. The only thing that we know is that that is how Israel justify their bombings on refugee camps and hospitals...

But anyway, it's a weird situation down there... and this is not the place.

Naah, we shouldn't be that harsh on ourselfs. Belive me, it's better that way.

I'm sure we would, but with this forum being full of people from all over the World, I don't think it'd be the wisest thing to do.

So the team were kept there over 3 hours. There were meetings with the club president and general manager and coach, etc.

The fans were also wanting to call out various of the players who they think are too busy partying to play well.

Quite a standoff, apparently.

These people are so sad.

Didafan takes one of Fishdoll's cookies and awards it to Fernando Muslera, who made several saves and kept a clean sheet in Lazio's 2-0 win over Lecce yesterday.

Oh, he was in goal yesterday? Yay for him! (Fishdoll has a soft spot for the kid too).

I don't wanna comment the first part cause this is not a political discussion. But I need to say that I object to your opinion.
As for the second part. I think Locke simply wanted to state that there are terrible things happening all over the world and yes: Those civilians are the innocent victims of a conflict that should have been solved over ten years ago.