DISQUS

[quote comment="12938"][quote comment="12183"]Ridiculous red card to Materazzi! Big present from referee to Liverpool! We'll see us in San Siro! INTER![/quote]
MATTERAZZI IS A SCUM BAG, WELL DESERVED. SCUM BAGS DON'T BELONG IN THE GAME. INTER IS FINISHED IN THIS COMPETITITON...AND THE SCUDETO DOES NOT LOOK SO GOOD EITHER, THEY STILL HAVE NAPOLI AND GENOA AWAY, JUVE AND ROMA AT HOME..HAHAHA, GOOD LUCK BUT....I DON'T KNOW..[/quote]


Who do you support Micojoia?? I take it you don't like Italian teams, your name does not sound British.

Micojoia,

you make th estatement that Italian managwers need lotys of expensive players to win. Does this not apply to Scottuish, and Portugese, Dutch ones? (and every other nationality too)

Micojoia,

who are good managers then?
So you think al Italian managers are bad?

football forums are very depressing places are they not? They seem to degenerate into racism/xenophobia.
It is an Alan Green hellish nightmare

The problem for Bergkamp is that Arsenal never did too well in Europe during his reign, so he is not as well recognised as he should be. But then the same goes for many players who did well in one league.

So England's best player is....Capello andl his training staff!!

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Fool, ur obviously some glory hunter that doesnt understand what it means to go threw the highs and lows of football

and when a high comes like this...its just beautiful
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And how exactly am I a glory hunter ManU4eva???



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Fool, ur obviously some glory hunter that doesnt understand what it means to go threw the highs and lows of football

and when a high comes like this...its just beautiful[/quote]

To compare Man United to religion is insulting to humanity. Religion is something that goes back millions of years and touches the lives of billions.

Mind you if Scientology is a religion perhaps Man U can be one too. Perhpas I will go on a pilgrimage to Old Trafford and see the light, or pray to Sir Alex and hear his wise words on the wisdom of using midfielders as wing backs (like Prandelli does at Fiorentina). Perhaps in my darkest moments I can think of that red shirt and the little nike swoosh and it will give me strength.

Anyway, apologies for this, but really,Man U are not a religion they are a football team, just like any other.

[quote comment="17994"][quote comment="17964"][quote comment="17955"]A Tear Fell Watching This...

United is a Religion

Bring the trophy to its home 07/08[/quote]

What a strange thing to say. If Man United is what gives your life meaning then well...[/quote]

Fool, ur obviously some glory hunter that doesnt understand what it means to go threw the highs and lows of football

and when a high comes like this...its just beautiful[/quote]

To compare Man United to a religion is insluting to humanity. Religion is something that goes back thousands of years and touches the lives of billions.

Perhaps Man U are the Scientology of religion.

[quote comment="17955"]A Tear Fell Watching This...

United is a Religion

Bring the trophy to its home 07/08[/quote]

What a strange thing to say. If Man United is what gives your life meaning then well...

[quote comment="17189"]some of these messages are laughable, look at the team rangers have, fiorentina's strikeforce is worth more than the rangers 1st team.[/quote]

Pazzini is a Fiorentina yoth product, Vieri gained on a free transfer. Are you sure about what you just said? Mutu was purcahsed on the cheap. I'm sure he is paid more than the Rangers player mind. But really, Fiorentina are not some massive rich club, they happen to have a very clever manager and Sporting director (Corvino), who have assembled a good team out of yoth players (Montolivo and Pazzini, a few washed up has beens (Liverani, Jorgenson, Vieri), and a few Italian players whom are not internationals, and were not bouhgt for lagre sums - Gobbi, Gamberini, Danielli, Pasqual etc), and other young players like Kuzmanovic (£3million). So all in all, Fiorentina are hardly some big spending powerhouse of a club, able to buy their way to success, in fact only a few years ago (around 2000) they went backrupt.

People seem to miss the point that Fiorentina are not a rich club. Mutu is their one 'star' and he was aquired on the cheap, after his troubles. This is not a story of little Rangers getting one over the big boys.

Poor old Fiorentina, they're such a likeable team with such a likeable, and apparently brilliant coach, in Prandelli.

I really enjoyed the Ronaldo interview at the end. I'd never heard him speak before. I quite liked him, he didn't sound likea footballer, some sort of dictator perhaps.

[quote comment="15450"]yeah, but the current way, no one cares. world club what? exactly.[/quote]

This competition is well considered throughout the rest of the world, just not in England.

It is surely a difficult competition as teams have to face such varying styles of football.

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Who knows?[/quote]
Man leave the nationalities out of the way...yes I'm portuguese and dude I watch italian football every bloody Sunday, my wife is Italian, and she knows italian teams have had favours over the years..It's boring, defensive and the players might as well be swimmers..out of ll the italian teams with all the way overpriced players they have none made it to the last four. I don't even know how Barcelona made it there..they don't deserve to be in it at all..[/quote]

Surely it is the English teams who have the overpriced players, Man U have Tevez, Rooney, Ronaldo, Ferdinand, Hargreavess, and Carrick all of whom cost more than any player in the Milan ranks at the moment, and in the Inter team too I believe - Ibrahimovic and Gilardino being closest at 17 and 18 million respectively.

Italian football is not well regarded in England for some reason. I always remember the Barca - Milan semi final where all the English commentators were going on and on about Barca’s stylish football, when in fact Milan were playing a far better, and more intricate passing game (and only went out as Sheva’s goal was wrongly ruled offside).

Who knows?[/quote]
Man leave the nationalities out of the way...yes I'm portuguese and dude I watch italian football every bloody Sunday, my wife is Italian, and she knows italian teams have had favours over the years..It's boring, defensive and the players might as well be swimmers..out of ll the italian teams with all the way overpriced players they have none made it to the last four. .[/quote]


Surely it is the English teams who have the overpriced players, Man U have Tevez, Rooney, Ronaldo, Ferdinand, Hargreavess, and Carrick all of whom cost more than any player in the Milan ranks at the moment, and in the Inter team too I believe - Ibrahimovic and Gilardino being closest at 17 and 18 million respectively.

Italian football is not well regarded in England for some reason. I always remember the Barca - Milan semi final where all the English commentators were going on and on about Barca's stylish football, when in fact Milan were playing a far better, and more intricate passing game (and only went out as Sheva's goal was wrongly ruled offside).

[quote comment="14699"]Once again another excellent result as to why we are the best team in Europe right now. Our team worked hard and earned the result they deserved. Even if the key figure in the defense line was taken off, they managed to hold Roma quite well, credit to all of the players. We went there and controlled the pace of the game.

A lot of people have criticized SAF in the past for his unique style of European football. I don't think many of us supporters would like to see us sit back and play in a very sluggish sort of slow motion speed but for the manager he knows what is at stake and what needs to be done... courtesy to him we have got two crucial away goals which will give us great confidence going to the return lg.

The Roma fans are one of the most feared fans in Europe. They are very hostile but today, they were silenced by the amazing, well composed and strong team Uinted. Keep in mind, They aren't the Roma that we did beat last year 7 - 1. They are by far the much improved Roma that are second on their league table. They have been awesome this season and to be fair they at least deserved a goal from that match. I think they could have even played much better if it wasn't for the psychological damage that was done to them by the giant, fearless and excellent team united.

I admire Ronaldo for so many reasons. One of the reason why I think he will be one of the greatest footballers to walk on this planet is because of his unique determination. He is very determined to win games and win them well. I think that is an excellent quality that you want to see on each and every footballer. His level of determination is beyond my understanding. If there is anybody right now on earth who might disagree the fact that Ronaldo IS the best player in the world at the moment, I can blindly say that person either doesn't know football or he/she has to be mentally retarded.

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It was interesting to hear Marcello Lippi commenting that he had a new found rewspect for Cristiano Ronaldo after this match as before he had not considered him highly, or words to that meaning.

Why are Englsih teams always faster at running than foriegn teams??

Marco Borriello, where have you been all this time??

such elegance

[quote comment="13772"]its funny cos only italians are saying inter wer unlucky.u sly shower of mammas oily dirt:-l. fafangulo the lot of ya italian ****[/quote]

How do you feel about Fabio Capello and Silvio Baldini etc leading England?

I assume all the people slagging off Italians are proud to have Fabio Capello leading England??

Go Fiorentina!! Great football, great goal by Montolivo.

Just checked out the Guardian Podcast and they basically said the ref very pro Loverpool throughout (possibly gave it to them on a platter) - also said Liverpool did nothing before about halfway through the second half and that the turning point was the injury to Cordoba, forcing 5th choice centre back Burdisso (after Cordoba, Chivu, Samuel, Materazzi) on to the pitch.

Another question is: Just what is Patrick Viera for??