The Price of Nostalgia
2020-10-07
Milan’s transfer market began and ended in identical fashion—a position of need was identified then chased in a protracted case of the blue balls.Continue Reading
The Donnarumma Renewal
2020-09-14
Gianluigi Donnarumma must not be allowed to exit for a pittance. Giggio can decide when and if he wants to leave. Milan get to decide the fee.Continue Reading
We are Milan. We don’t sell.
2020-09-04
Meanwhile, Milan still doesn’t know which rightback to dump, but look set on keeping the experienced Conti over the younger Calabria.Continue Reading
A Gripe about Modern Soccer Programming
2014-12-10
Last night I’ve mustered enough of the inconvenient will to go to the common TV room at work to see if maybe, a big IF, they had the game I wanted on. This doesn’t happen often. In the past that usually came with the risk of that proposition (of theContinue Reading
Brazil’s World Cup: Coroner’s Report
2014-07-16
With the deafening silence of 28 teams and a daily games slate now a bygone, a certain nervy evening, today, has the feel of a distant memory. As we fixed the dish and satellite receiver while a pandemonium thousands of miles away bellied to a festive behemoth, I thought toContinue Reading
World Cup ‘Round of Brazil’ plus 15
2014-07-03
There was plenty to both love and hate from this latest round of play in the World Cup. Indeed, 2014 has cooked up a storm of surprises. Consider the worst of the sport next… Of the eight games in the second round of this increasingly puzzling tournament, only three wereContinue Reading
World Cup Game week 3; Final Verdicts
2014-06-26
Okay so Gameday 3 is simultaneously scheduled in each group. Given that no one can be at two places at once, the games in bold are the ones I watched. The ones I’ve forgone are in italics. Basically what I’m going to say under those headings is utter bullshit analysis.Continue Reading
World Cup Game Week 2
2014-06-23
Nothing has happened in groups A and B that wasn’t already covered in the previous post. We’re that lazy, and it shows in out work ethic. But how about the action from Week 2? Germany and Ghana gave us a thrilling second half. Costa Rica claims another scalp. Bosnia &Continue Reading
World Cup Gameday 1 Review (and Predictions)
2014-06-19
The beauty of a tournament so short like the World Cup is that while at first, and only then, there is room for second chances, not every team will react similarly to the inevitable hiccup. Croatia and Cameroon, Greece and Japan, Uruguay and England, Ecuador and Honduras, Bosnia & Herzegovina,Continue Reading