‘Roma’ Archives
Europa League magic
Villa and Hearts manage to make their escape while Everton and Fulham potentially ruin their season by cluttering it with meaningless fixtures by suffering the indignity of having to remain in this bloody awful competition. Sigma Olomouc 1 - Everton 1 (Agg. 1-5) The Toffeemen made a nervy start and were a player down within 10 minutes when [...]
Europa League qualifiers
What a magical tournament this promises to be, he says, with a bloody great wedge of sarcasm. Everton 4 - 0 Sigma Olomouc Louis Saha got the Toffees off the mark, flicking home a Fellaini cross. Jack Rodwell made it 2-0 before the break with a left-footed strike that went through a sea of bodies. Rodwell added the third after the break with [...]
Europa League second leg matches
Fulham 3 – 0 Vetra (Agg. 6-0) A walk in the park for the boys from West London. Fulham made the breakthrough after 56 minutes when big Dickson Etuhu directed a header inside the far post. Andy Johnson then grabbed a brace, first meeting a Clint Dempsey’s cross with a neat finish and then through another close-range finish after being [...]
European Cup night: May 30th, 1984
My view of the action from the 2005 Final: Living in Istanbul, I was lucky enough to go to the 2005 Champion’s League Final. Here's your chance to relive the night in 1984 when Liverpool won their fourth European Cup. John Peel can barely keep it together, and I think it was a good job that he had rhythm pal Jensen in the studio with [...]
European tour
Quick roundup of some of the European leagues... Valencia 2 - 2 Barcelona Barça opener was a classic, Iniesta and Leo Messi involved in a series of one-twos that ripped through the home defence. Valencia rallied, Hedwiges Maduro heading home a 43rd minute corner before Pablo Hernandez bagged their second. Thierry Henry was brought off the [...]
Italian weekend
Here are all the goals from the Sunday Italian snoozefest. Am I being unkind? I don't care, I hate Italian footy and the goals are about all I can stomach from this ghastly league. If you really must, here are the results... Napoli 0 - 0 AC Milan, Inter Milan 3 - 0 Reggina, Chievo 1 - 0 Palermo, Torino 1 - 3 Sampdoria, Fiorentina 1 - 0 [...]
Quotes of the week
'It was one of those long European nights when you don't know if you're watching a game of football or a game of suicide.' Sir Alex, not best pleased by his side's performance ‘Unfortunately, the referee decided not to give it and he is the one that counts.’ Roma manager, Luciano Spalletti, in 'not having a go at the ref shocker' when [...]
Wednesday night Champions League highlights
Here you go then, bye bye Italy: Man Utd 2-0 Inter Milan, (firtst leg 0-0) Manchester United needed a mere three minutes to stick the ball past Julio Cesar, Giggs whipping in a corner for Nemanja Vidic to make a fool out of Vieira, planting a header in the far corner. Inter got back into it a bit as the half wore on, but immediately [...]
Sunday in Serie A
I'm not the greatest fan of the Italian game, as I'm sure is obvious by now, but I appreciate it nonetheless. I didn't get to see any of the games on sunday, so the clip below was a good way to get to see the highlights. Pick of the bunch for me was the Milan game. Despite the news that they're lumbered with Beckham for a bit longer, it took Milan [...]
Champions League roundup
Anyone still doubting how bad the Italian league has got need only take a look at last night's match with Manchester United. So Inter are running away with their league? Crap league, I say. This was a walk in the park for the boys from Salford, who will be absolutely gutted if they fail to finish off this bunch of jokers in the second leg. This [...]
