mario

[BoyBlue_1985]

The ref clearly wanted to be in 'The Mario Show' and got his wish.

As dire a decision for a penalty as I've seen of late.

Oh, and a reminder of why I don't watch Italian football any more.

A game I used to love.

Theres actually more attacking football in italy than there used to be...ac milan guy, correct me if im wrong but there are more goals per weekend than there used to be right? But thats partly due to less superstars and the defenders are not what they used to be. Zapata and bonera, makeshift as they are even so prove defenders arent what they used to be.

"...Used to be"??

That's so general. Never better than when the likes of Maradonna, Batistuta, Van Basten and Gullitt played in Italy. Before the refs wanted to make names for themselves. Before the general standard of defending became a lost art, missing the Maldinis, Nestas, Baresis and the Cafus of the world.

It seems to me you missed the greatest period of Italian football stretching over 15/ 20 years.

Cafu a great defender
I have heard it all now

 

[bluedreaming]

Mario was obviously home sick and he looks happy now. Good luck to the guy, he has left us with some great memories.
I wish him all the best

 

[stonerblue]

Well played

 

[Big Swifty]

YAWN

The bugger's gone. Drop it.

 

[Big Swifty]

Re: For those who didn't notice

The moving finger writes, and having writ, moves on

Nor all you piety nor wit

Can lure it back to cancel half a line

Nor all your tears wash out one word of it.

(Anyone who identifies the quote is nearly as clever as me). Mario's gone. Get over it.

 

[stonerblue]

YAWN

The bugger's gone. Drop it.

general football forum- for all non city related discussion.

 

[hertsblue]

I watched the game from about the 35th minute when i heard he was playing just to see how he got on.
The pitch was poor, crowd looked poor but the game was okay.
The penalty in the 90th minute was a complete joke though. Perfect tackle in the box, player rolls around looking at the ref whilst pretending to be hurt and a penalty was given.

mario had an on/off game overall. Scored 2 inc 1 penalty, held ball up at times but carelessly gave the ball away on numerous times. He looked happy, even smiled at the end when scored the winner.

Udinese were hard done by though, deserved the draw but it was a shocking call for the penalty

 

[hertsblue]

Re: For those who didn't notice

Anyone who watched the full game, and I did after traveling back from the Liverpool match, will see that he wasn't that good and for large periods of the game looked disinterested and spent every opportunity moaning at the referee.

His first goal was a near post left foot finish from 7 yards which was tidy enough but nothing more, whilst his winner was a clone of the last minute Spurs penalty.

In short he didn't look great and Milan were lucky as their penalty was a shocking decision.

Incidentally, the pitch was atrocious and the stadium half empty.


Just posted similar in another thread. Unbelievable call for the penalty

One footnote was he did celebrate and dance around the pitch at full time but we saw him do that too after the United Cup Semi Final so in earnest it was nothing special and we are well shut of him and regardless of what happens this year we can build a team of better, less self interested individuals who will serve us well for next year.

 

[afhald]

Theres actually more attacking football in italy than there used to be...ac milan guy, correct me if im wrong but there are more goals per weekend than there used to be right? But thats partly due to less superstars and the defenders are not what they used to be. Zapata and bonera, makeshift as they are even so prove defenders arent what they used to be.

"...Used to be"??

That's so general. Never better than when the likes of Maradonna, Batistuta, Van Basten and Gullitt played in Italy. Before the refs wanted to make names for themselves. Before the general standard of defending became a lost art, missing the Maldinis, Nestas, Baresis and the Cafus of the world.

It seems to me you missed the greatest period of Italian football stretching over 15/ 20 years.

Then you would be incorrect in your assumption. Dont really know what you mean by general, i was simply stating that italian defending wasnt what it "used to be" even compared to when they won the world cup. Comparing any further back would be a bit unfair considering the talent there was. I used to watch serie a when players like vierchowod were bullying attackers off the ball way into their 40s. In fact i remember bergomi doing it for inter milan, heck costacurta played at left back in the champs league for milan when he was touching 40. I dont watch as much italian footy as i used to but its clear as day that the last few greats (cannavaro, nesta with maybe chiellini an exception) of italian defending have gone to be replaced by cheap imports.

Italian football isn't growing up but in the last 2 seasons i have seen a Napoli beat us 2-1, Chelsea 3-1, a Juve beat Chelsea 3-0, an AC Milan 4-0 against Arsenal, an Udinese won in Liverpool. How can you say the italian football standards are low? It is not anymore the football we used to watch 10-20 years ago, but it is still alive as 4th main league in Europe or World even.

 

[ClaudioDeyna]

Re: For those who didn't notice

The moving finger writes, and having writ, moves on

Nor all you piety nor wit

Can lure it back to cancel half a line

Nor all your tears wash out one word of it.

(Anyone who identifies the quote is nearly as clever as me). Mario's gone. Get over it.

It's not how much literature that they know. What matters is how much they know about literature.

Chant the stuff till they're blue in the face, what good does it do?