All things football 2018 - 19

Sampdoria 3 Napoli 0

The Genovese club were playing their first home match after the collapse of the Morandi Bridge, they needed this! Riccardo Saponara is the most under-rated player in Italy, his passing is magisterial - I miss Roy Hudson. He's been labelled as soft in the past but WGAF. When you can make plays like he does let others do the grunt work. He went down with a hamstring pull, could be bad news for the Azzurri, I don't trust Verratti.

TLN has gotten much bigger since they merged with Mediaset, but they do not have exclusive rights to Serie A. They've had a longstanding contract with Bell to broadcast Serie A in the GTA. When Al - Jazeera had the rights that contract did not apply. Before the season started TSN had times for Seria A broadcasts on their schedule, I'm assuming it's for areas where TLN isn't basic cable.
I'm saving money for what I would have paid out for BeIN Sports...But I miss Ray Hudson.

Robie English 2 CR7 0, Parma 1 Inter 0

The Bumble Bees went bankrupt in 2014, what they have achieved since then is remarkable. They never recovered from the Parmalat mess, but they still had a 10,000 season ticket base after bankruptcy. Today they are owned by 7 local businessmen known as the Desports Group. The attacking partnership of Gervinho (returned from China) and the under rated Robie English (Roberto Inglese) is dangerous. He deserves a call up to The Azzurri, it can't hurt.

The Azzurri looked like a downhill racer afraid of falling in their lackluster two matches against Poland and Portugal. The playmaking of a Pirlo and the tackling of a DDR are almost impossible to replace.

I wasn't going to miss Zlatanissimo at BMO Field, he didn't disappoint. It was an insane match.

Di Francesco is a squartta palle, football's version of Nazim Kadri.

I find it bizarre how the big Italian clubs give up so easily on young domestic talent. De Francesco should still be with Inter, they do need him! Sampdoria is making the Genovese happy, but Caprari should still be with Roma.

Zlatanisimmo is a God, even assholes bow down to him. Sacha Baron Cohen could have a field day with him.

I was wondering the same. Sportsnet advertised The Davis Cup when all they had was shitty baseball highlights.

Internazionale got the result they needed, this is the second time Tottenham has fallen to an Italian club on late goals. They travel to Eindhoven next before the home/away War of Attrition with Barcelona.

For Napoli to leave Belgrade with a point is a moral victory.

With TLN merging with Mediaset I get Serie A in English and Italian, I'm covered there.

But I can't go without the CL, the streaming methods I've tried are substandard, I'm signing up for DAZN.

Real 3 Roma 0

Did Monchi believe that selling Naingollan and Strootman would make them more competitive. With the players they've sold the new stadium can't come fast enough. There's no reason for Romanglioli to be a Milan player. CAZZO!

CR7 sees red, was it? The challenge on Cancelo was flagrant as well.

If he's suspended they may actually be doing Juve a favour. They have enough firepower for the opening round, save CR7 for the knockout phase. The Portugese has been a positive influence on FB33, he's finally playing up to his potential.

After looking at the incident more closely, CR7 should have been penalized. Whether it deserved a straight red is open for discussion.

Zaibetter said:

Italy was beaten by Portugal for the UEFA nations cup. It may take years for Italy to come back with a powerful team.

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Sad but true, Italy is at the same stage that Germany was in 1999, the rebuild will be painful.

Milan loan out Andre Silva scored against The Azzurri.