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Bad blood...

Milan and Juventus have traditionally had a good relationship, well that has all changed since Saturday. Maybe the teams would have gotten over that " ghost goal", I mean Milan still sit on top and Juventus just a point behind them in the league table, yet it is all the afters that have really started to irritate me. Gigi Buffon has been known for his honesty, but some things he should edit, when he said that he wouldn't have told the referee even if he saw the goal was understandable,who would want their own team to be disadvantaged? But saying this to the media is like twisting the knife in Milan's back and it is not needed. I like to believe that Buffon is smart enough to realise what affect this would have. Antonio Conte is a man I did admire in the past, yet he has brought in the attitude that it's Juve against the world, this wouldn't be such a big deal if Juve were in mid table but they have remained unbeaten for 25 games and currently sit in second, and all this talk about how everyone is out to get him reeks of the Jose' Mourinho days.
This game was always going to be a heated game, yet he has turned it into something else and all this bad blood and moany attitude seeps into the team, we see it every week when a decision goes against them and almost immediately the ref is surrounded by atleast 4 players all complaining about something. I fear that Antonio Conte may get the reputation of " the whiny one". After the game against Catania he came out and complained about referee decisions and almost every coach in Serie A came out and stated what a joke he had become and how he seems pathetic. And it hurts to admit it but they're right, he is basically saying that the game is more to do with the referee than the players he sends out, it's shameful, he is showing a lack of respect for his team by acting this way and I urge him to stop!
If he doesn't and Juve win the league, everyone will feel it's more to do with Conte's remarks then the efforts by the lads.

Milan V Juventus- A scandalised draw

Not exactly how I had hoped this game will go, the disallowed Milan goal will be the talk of the town and if Juve have the nerve to complain about the referee.... I wont be able to look at them in the same way. This game was already a very heated fixture in Serie A and didn't need any help in that department. This game was just an advertisement for some sort of technology to be brought into the game, as I refuse to believe Juventus have returned to the " dark side!, I believe they had nothing to do with it and even had a goal of their own disallowed in the second half by Alessandro Matri a former Milan youth product. Had Muntari's goal been seen by the referee, it would have changed the game significantly and we would have truly seen what Juve are made off. No matter what Antonio Conte believes, I believe that the 2nd Milan goal could have done some good for Juve, before you laugh hear me out, it would put a fire under Juve and tested their abilities.

Juve may have had over 50% of the possession but they weren't able to do anything damaging with it. They had 15 shots but only 3 were on goal and none were really good enough to trouble Abbiati. some of the strikes by the Juve forward were way off target, it was as if they had forgotten where the goal was and Marco Borriello was the wrong man to have in this type of game as he hardly made an impact, I'm all for giving players a chance...but at the right time, and this wasn't the time to mess around with a good set of players. I suggest the Juve frontmen do a bit more target practice as they were so close on so many occasions but not close enough to actually test the keeper.

Milan may have had just 48% possession but they knew what to do with it as on the 14th minute a former Juve man, Antonio Nocherino scored the opener. He was gifted the ball by a lazy pass from Leonardo Bonnuci and than he further helped it by getting a deflection on it. Milan applied the pressure for large portions of the game with Juve showing up in fits and bursts. In all honesty, Juventus were looking rather panicked and some wayward passes and some rash challenges were starting to creep in. Alessandro Matri can on in the second half and eventually scores the equalizer on the 83rd minute and helped rescue a point for The Old Lady.
But one does start to wonder if all these draws that Juve have conceded will damage there title hopes, as they currently sit in second place a point behind Milan but with a game to play, which they will need to win!

This game was played down as a title decider by both camps but we all know, this helps Juve stay up there with Milan, however the result of this game had more to do with luck than anything else and who could hold there nerve the longest, and that ended up be Milan with Arthur Vidal getting sent off in the 89th minute for a bad tackle on Mark Van Bommel. These two teams have always had a good relationship but all could turn very ugly pretty soon!

A true test of Juventus' pedigree will be how they handle the games from now on, and how they handle if and when they lose- will the react or collapse?

Torino...La Mia Città- I need to go back!

Juventus-Milan Promo 2.10.2011 /by club 828/

The Real CLASH OF THE TITANS!!

Milan versus Juventus should be a mouthwatering fixture, just thinking about it is making me both exited and nervous. When Juve beat them back in October Milan were not in great form and were suffering a bit, and it took 2 very late Claudio Marchisio goals to defeat them, now Milan are sitting pretty ontop of the table and The Old Lady are struggling with getting the goals and last weekend got the win, but in my humble opinion, it was more to do with goalkeeping errors.

However that takes nothing away from Juventus' determination and hunger to get into the game. Sometime they do seem to be in a hurry to score the goals which can leave them exposed, like it did against Catania, yet the have a new found confidence that allows them to continue to play their game and eventually be victorious. This calmness and high tempo that they have could confuse the Rossoneri. Milan also won their game by a 3-1 margin, however they were ahead by 3 goals and allowed Cesena to get back into it, which shows an air of overconfidence which if Juve are smart, they could exploit. Mila could be without Zlatan Ibrahimovic but that doesn't take much away from Milan's goal threat as the posses; Robinho, Pato, El Sharawaay, Seedorf, Kevin- Prince- Boateng and Antonio Nocherino to name but a few.

These two Northern Giants may only be separated by a point, but in terms of class they are both equally great.

Juventus V Catania

A must win game for Juventus, two draws on the trot, they couldn't afford to drop any more points. Antonio Conte has does something incredible for the club and fans, they remain unbeaten in 24 games...not an easy feat!!

Juve started this game just one point behind Milan, and with them playing Milan next week, they couldn't afford to slip up. Unfortunately the Milan giants thought the same as they beat Cesena by a 3-1 margin. Juve had over 60% possession with 29 shots but only 11 were on target. You may be fooled into thinking it was an easy game if you just look at the stats, but don't let that fool you as it was a hard fought victory and by midpoint it could have easily been another draw. Catania had 8 shot with only 6 on target, but that matters not as it only takes one mistake, one lazy pass for it to start to unravel, and that mistake happened early on in the 4th minute when Pablo Barrientos slotted the ball passed a fully stretched Gianluigi Buffon. Where as in seasons past, Juve would have begun to panic and rush for the equaliser, this team kept their composer and continued playing their game. Although I did start to see the Bianconeri start to shoot whenever they got the ball when it would have been better to keep possession or pass it, however this didn't happened too much to make me worry.

The Old Lady had to wait until the 22nd minute for Andrea Pirlo to get his first goals in the black and white of Juventus. The free kick was classic Pirlo, yet if the goalkeeper had arranged his wall properly it could have been thwarted. Similar with the next 2 goals, they were helped by the sending off of Marco Motto which gave Juve an advantage, but it was more to do with bad goalkeeping than anything else.

Juve should carry this momentum to the next game and just realise Milan might be harder and more motivated to beat us... And one final thing, when celebrating try not to hurt one another!

Milan V Arsenal- Pure Class!!

A glorious win and just goes to show that pace alone will not win you the game! People have this misconception that Milan is full of senior player yet they forget about Ignazio Abate, Thiago Silva, Kevin- Prince Boateng, Urby Emmanuelson and Atonio Nocherino, these players are not only young but they have the intelligence to make things happen with the ball.

There were slight concerns that Arsenal may be a bit fast for The Rosonerri, however they shocked all when they were equal to the pacy player of the Londoners.

Milan started the scoring on 15 minute with Boateng's screamer which saw the ball do a ping pong move inside the goal- that's how much power was behind it. The it was Robinhos turn, he may be suffering from a rough patch domestically ... but not in Europe! His first goal came on 3 minutes and than another just after the restart. But the evening would not be right if the big Swede didn't get his name on the score sheet and he did when on the 79th minute he was awarded a penalty.

What really got on my nerves was the commentating on ITV, it was defending everything the premiership team does and any little thing Milan did they made it sound 10 times worse, at one point an Arsenal player was grabbing Zlatan from the front and they still wouldn't admit it was a foul and when they did, they mumbled it so we couldn't hear them backtracking!! British commentators are always saying the Italian game is too tactical, I don't see how this is a bad thing? So we think a lot, maybe if the English thought a little they wouldn't be running around like headless chickens!

And don't get me started on the fans.. they were seen drinking in Milan as usual from 12 in the main Piazza and then just being hooligans and litter bugs, dropping their empty bear bottle and causing havoc! They have absolutely no shred of respect, and they believe they're better than us...I hardly think so.

Arsenal fans sing in milan square - DISGUSTING!!!!

Parma V Juventus

This was rescheduled due to the snow and thus you could see Juve were not planning with the same accuracy in their play and were often sloppy in their passing and allowing Parma to get possession of the ball. If The Old Lady had one this they could have returned to the top of the table with a game in hand, yet Juve dropped two points and remain a point behind Milan, who are currently on good form and getting better at the right time.

Juve had over 6o% possession with 17 shots but only 4 were on target. The game was at a very high tempo and went by very fast, but the problem with having this quick style of play is that you start to lose patience. And this is when you can get sloppy and give away cheap free-kicks in dangerous areas, and Parma can do some serious damage- don't let their mid table situation fool you as " the Atomic Ant" almost punish Juve on a couple of occasions, his close ball control is amazing, we should have never let him go, but hopefully if he gets more playing time he will only get better and that can only be good for the Azzurri.

At the dying ends of the game, Andrea Pirlo claimed that he should have got a penalty, I saw that and as a Juve fan I can sat that it wasn't a penalty. Just the way Pirlo went down after getting the slightest of touches, he went down as though he was shot- it was embarrassing especially from such a talented player like him, and he even had some very good shots on goal!

And the scenes after the match, with pink shirts surrounding the referee-that is something I hope doesn't become a regular thing. Show everyone you still have what it takes by beating Catania on Sunday! Don't whine to the referee.... leave that sort of play for Inter!!!

It's a sad time when...

... A player thinks so little of the capacity of his teammates that he resorts to " telling on" his opponents in order to get him suspended for the next game. Is Giorgio Chiellini one of those player? Maybe. After winning the first leg of the Coppa Italia semi- final, Chiellin tainted it by trying to get Zlatan suspended, so people are now talking about that rather than Juves' fighting spirit to get back into the game. This new Juventus side is more prone to whining and complaining, that they don't see what they've achieved, they are ontop of the league table and have yet to be beaten.

Even when Juve are winning they seem to have a gipe with someone, more recently Beppe Morrata came out and started to complain about the referees after the Siena games and demanding more respect because the are JUVENTUS. What does he mean? Does he mean the good old Moggi days, he does remember what those days were?!

They are starting to look scarily like Inter under Mourinho, you know the childish and thinking that everyone is conspiring against them. Juve should be bigger than that and in a fair game, things are not always going to go your way, what you should do is just play your game and prove to everyone and yourself that you don't need outside help to be the best. What Giorgio has done has just reaffirmed that they are frightened of Ibrahimovic so much that they need to get rid of him, and for all the players to bring this complaint forward, it's Chiellini??? Some of the things he does are more close to rugby than football! Don't get me wrong, every team needs a "hardman", but you're hardly a hardman when you resort to this!

Milan V Juventus- Coppa Italia semi- final pt 1

What a game and what a time to score your first goal, make that two, for Juventus!! Martin Caceres scores a brace to help Juve to the final, and maybe this time Juve will complete his move to Turin and not return him to sender like they did in the 09/10 season. Antonio Conte should be very pleased, as he reigns unbeaten and by his reaction to the second goal, you could see how much it meant to him.

It was feared that this game would be dull and that both team would just settle for a draw... and I tell you they were wrong! This was an open and free flowing game with limited interruptions, that is only clumsy tackle a few Mark Van Bommel tackles and a few play acting from both sides that did frustrate me a little! Juventus have a tendency to whine a little bit and they are starting to look and sound like Inter! Just recently Morrata has come out and complained how referees don't respect The Old Lady, what exactly does he mean? A cynic might interperate that as the so called old Juve coming back, you know, the one that was accused and later punished of match fixing.

One thing that doesn't look like changing any time soon is Giorgio Chiellini. He is a player that you need in your team, but sometimes he can be a little less desirable! Some of his tackles can be labeled as "rash" to say the least! A player who is as "gun ho" as he is will not be given any sympathy when he is the one on the floor! Talking about player going on the floor; Marco Borriello spent an awful amount of time on the ground, he doesn't want to get a reputation as a diver, look what happened to Krasic, after that one incident he was never given the benefit of the doubt!

All in all an exciting game that good have gone either way, especially after Zlatan's disallowed goal, which Milan felt hard done by and I kindof see their point, what could Ibrahimovic really have done apart from severing his arm?

This victory can only lead to more, as the momentum of this win will, hopefully translate to their next league game.

Forza Juventus!!!

Government is supposed to serve the needs of its people...

.... Not protect the needs of the corperation's. Big industries should be responsible for themselves, and if they are going bankrupt the government should let them! If an individual is in trouble they get punished and learn from their mistakes, well most of the time! On the other hand big businesses get handouts from the government i.e the taxpayer, and they just go on with their lives and feel free to make the same mistakes, because they will always get help. While the average Joe is forced to deal with increasing food and energy prices and we're subjected to even more taxes.


A friend always replies with, " you get that everywhere" and " historically it is always the case". For one thing, you don't get it everywhere, and even if that's true, that doesn't excuse the fact that it's unethical and just plain WRONG! And for her second point, in the past I'm sure it's happened, but are we not suppose to be moving forward not harking back to the past?! And what just made me chuckle a bit inside was how she said about how Ancient Civilizations didn't leave us anything!! Do you recall the Roman Empire to focus on one, who gave us roads, taught us how to farm and not to forget the beautiful buildings that are still standing after 3000 years, building now don't even last a year before the begin to crumble!
I mean how can this government criticise anyone else and believe that there moralities are true. When has it ever been right to make people choose between energy or food? Believe me it's getting to that point sooner than you think.


What do they think will happen when people get desperate?? They'll steal, so the crime rate will soar because people have no other way of getting thing, and we do live in a society where people are surrounded by advert and celebrities saying that we MUST have these items, and people who have been condition for years to have all these things, what do you think will happen when they realise they can't get the same luxury items they used to get?? Civil disorder, and we know this is a country that looks down its nose on any kind of rebellion, and if anyone dares, that's it they get 5 years in jail for stealing trainers, but the bankers who have stole billions get a slap on the wrist and are still able to go to the South of France for a vacation, while we're told to stay here and help save the economy! Give me a break, they talk about the economy as it should have it's own charity advert!, " give £2 a month so the economy has some food". Answer me this, when the economy was doing well did we get an increase in pay/ benefit did the taxes started to relax...No! So why in the hell should we give a damm about the economy??
And to further explain taxes they aren't just something working people pay, even unemployed people pay taxes on clothes, dvds the trains to name but a few, and what is with the train tickets, they have been going up after every 6 months and the trains are still late, packed, dirty and loud. It is now £12.10 to take the train to London and many people I know commute to work, so what do you think will happen to the economy if they can't?! Our transport system is a joke!

There's something wrong here...( I'm just exercising my freedom of expression)

Why are we so afraid as a society to slow down and question what we're doing, people are so quick to make quips about how Europeans are fundamentally lazy and that's why they are bankrupt, but we work like dogs and are still suffering from austerity...so tell me, who's the real joke? Do we ever question the quality of life we have? NO, because everyone has been tricked into believing this is what life is about, yeah you work at a low paid irrelevant job, eat cheap crap food and then die. That sounds so great, I really want that- in case you didn't get it, I'm being sarcastic!! The rest Of Europe just understands that There's more to life.

You are working for what is basically scraps, it's not even remotely covering your living costs, while you have an elite few with villas in Monaco and their own private jets- do you not understand how wrong this is?!

You are not only working like dogs but you're probably eating the same as he is!! All these fast food outlets are just exploiting the fact that you're poor, do you think Cameron has ever had to eat a Mc Donalds- No because he has the money to get fresh food that come from a massive, not the meat that comes from cows that can barely walk because they've been made so fat that there bones cant support them! You know they do say, you are what you eat- and most of the people I see are so fat that I don't understand how their skeleton can support them.

Also what people don't understand is that we're not exactly doing labour intensive work that require us to eat all that fat to keep us going, you spend most of your time sitting on you arse and stuck in front of a computer.

People here don't know how to enjoy life, they believe that in order to have a good time you must get " wasted", what they don't understand is that they work all week and then blow all their wages in one weekend, all that is doing is insuring that they are always working and are never truly free to enjoy life.

I have a few suggestions for people who want to be free of the Matrix: Watch Food Inc, The Inside job and The Keiser Report.

To be continued... ( I'm sure I'll have plenty of material to reflect upon)

Serie A Sunday.

All the matches were played at the same time on the same day due to the freakish weather, which cause some managers to take issue, Edy Reja most notably had the most to complain as his team lost 3-2 to Genoa. Inter resurgence was short lived as they lost 4-0 to Roma. But the most to gain would have been Juventus and Milan, that is if they were able to score! Milan V Napoli was the tastier of the two fixture, as both teams are rather good in attack, Napoli with the three tenors of Edison Cavani, Lavezzi and Marek Hamisik and Milan with the big Ibrahimovich and Robinho. Yet Milan still couldn't break the Napoli defence and when they did.. let's just say they weren't clinical enough upfront. Milan had 16 shots with only 5 on goal and the big Swede was getting noticeably frustrated with the poor service, saying that Napoli only had 1 shot on goal, so I think the lesson here is; with Thiago Silva, you'll have a hell of a defence!

The game ended with 7 yellow cards and a inevitable sending off. Zlatan let a moment of stupidity get the best of him. in the 64th minute he was sent of after slapping Aronica, he tried to disguise it by using Nocherino as a middle man but he didn't fool the lineman and that was the end of his game and the 3 after this, which means he will miss the clash with Juventus.

Juve remain unbeaten but they didn't beat Siena, that was a game that if they won would have meant some breathing space from the chasing pack. The league table is therefore almost unchanged, with Juve on top separated by one point but with a game in hand. Hopefully we'll have better luck against Parma but Conte has try and figure out- why couldn't they beat Siena?

WACKY WEATHER

It has been so cold that I've forgotten what it feels like to be warm, people don't understand how a change in the weather affects everything from our footy matches ( which have been cancelled) to the quality of food we get, don't forget we import almost everything, so if Spain, Italy or India can't get good crops, we don't get good food. It's a rather selfish way of looking at things but then again,most people are

This is not only distressing to the young and elderly but also to the wildlife. Animals will not know when to migrate or when to hibernate because seasons are all but a thing of the past. I remember when I was in school it used to be warm and sunny from the Easter holidays all the way to September, now we're lucky to get a month, and when we do it's usually just a week of extreme heat! And you would get hordes of people trying to soak up the little sun they got!

People look at the word Global Warming and think we will just get hot weather, sorry to burst your bubble but it doesn't work like that, because of where we are, there will be increased flooding and generally more stormy. I was just thinking about last year and when it snowed and the country shut down. now imagine that happening all the time... Something has to be done about climate change, it's going to affect everyone, so why can't we all work together to try and repair some of the damage we have done.

How in the hell are we the smartest species on the planet??!!