MeP.S. anyone catch the lazio fans from the Lazio-Inter game with the "SCUDETTO GAME OVER" banner
I believe it's not a fake image 
I think Motta was trying to get Taddei sent off. Note how high Taddei's feet went up (he was on a yellow already!) and how high Motta had to jump to evade the challenge. Materazzi is Materazzi (see WC 2006 final), although he did get punched by Mexes the second time round (with a cheeky right hook).
I've said it all along, he's a dirty trickster, as bad as Materazzi only he wasn't always like. Was once one of my favorite Roma players.
Just put yourself in their shoes
To be honest, I believe after yesterday the only Roma player who yesterday deserved respect were De Rossi, Juan, Riise and the goalkeeper.
only FIGC?
I can see a flurry of goals and red cards in that one Too each his own. Although, what did Inter do wrong, in either instance?
rfU check this, Inter (or Lazio ) fans with "OH SIII" banner in match against Roma. There is also the guy with "Scudetto Game Over" banner, who is the same guy with Lazio scarf in the image I posted above 
!!!!this one is much better
quality. Was that at the coppa game?
yeah i kinda figured that outPLF said:
wich is why i wrote that post. as for your question (where garrone's money come from), as zeem wrote, they come from oil. garrone is the president of one of the biggest oil companies in europe (erg is the name of the company).as far as i know arsenal was the club competing with us for hernandez (while man utd were competing with us to sign pastore).hey there said:
Too bad it ended this way. You retained your record of not being defeated at home, but now things get really really hard.
The last famous words. Milan managed to LOSE against Genoa today, what a disgrace Milan has become!!
From the point of view of a mid-table team, perhaps, but it was Prandelli who said he was trying to build a championship winning team (remember his seven year plan to win the scudetto?). Could be he was a tad too naive but perhaps that's the problem. Prandelli needs to decide, and quickly, what is realistic for Fiore. IMO they should emulate Roma, aim for a top 4 finish, a group stage finish in the UCL, and a coppa final. And they need fill their squad with more quality to complement their star players. You're not going to get far with Gobbi and Kroldrup in your starting 11. They could make more of an effort to get quality players on loan deals (Iaquinta and De Cegile from Jugay) and one or two star players from serie B bound teams (Maccarone and Ekdal from Siena, Guarente and Padoin from Atalanta). No more injury prones and unknowns (Mario Bolatti, Felipe, Ljajic, Keirrison and Harris Seferovic) who can't even make the bench.
I agree, but we've seen what happened to Fiore and last season, Udinese. Was it worth it? For me no, I would rather make a serious go for the UEFA Cup, try and win it even because right now, I don't see Palermo losing to either Fulham or Atletico Madrid. I still haven't figured out why you're so anti-Uefa Cup, Ben. It's a good way to build up experience, capability and competence. You see, I'm a Dortmund fan (my 1st love) and this is what I wished for, 5th spot and a uefa cup place, and I see us making a lot of progress in the following seasons (we have a good mixture of youth and experience). For me, this is the ideal way to go for any mid-table team. Rather than taking the plunge and losing 10-0 to Barcelona at home in the group stages.
haha, that'll teach you to underestimate serie a. Even us today vs Chievo, Roma with Cagliari, Juve with Parma
I try to only celebrate after the final whistle because I know these mid-table teams don't fuck about
yeah, it's almost over now. samp is gonna play at home versus napoli next week. napoli is a fantastic team and they could definitely beat or draw with samp, but not now, not at this point. samp is one heartbeat from champions league now, they'll play their last match at home and they're just too good, focused and determined to screw this up. oh well congrats to them. they managed not to lose in palermo so, if they will win next week, they will deserve the 4th spot.ale said:
yep. it was our worst performance at home this season. i've never seen my kids so scared on the pitch. they just couldn't play their usual football. but that shouldn't really be much of a surprise, to be honest. if anything, we should be surprised such a young and unexperienced team showed such consistancy till today. if we think about our goals at the beginning of the season... well we were supposed to be a very nice team to watch; entertaining, unpredictable, but definitely not consistant. and yet look at where we are right now, fighting for a place in champions league.rfu said:
but fiorentina actually is a midclass team mate. nevermind the "long term proclaims" about fiorentina competing for the scudetto. that's never gonna happen. fiorentina adhere to the same "economically sustainable football" philosophy i mentioned when i talked about samp and palermo. their only way to reach inter would be by spending as much money as inter does. and (fortunately) that's never gonna happen. fiorentina's REAL project is to become something in between: more than a midclass club like palermo and less than a top club like inter (wich is exactly what u said when u remarked they should emulate roma) and they already managed to achieve this goal.rfu said:
neither team is equipped to win CL.... but both team deserve to be there. if i had to name wich teams all around europe played better than palermo and samp this season, i would come up with 8, 9 clubs (tops). and that's definitely enough to earn u a place in CL. plus most of the teams that will play in the next champions league are nowhere near as good as palermo and samp (let's be fair the only teams which are clearely better than palermo and samp are EPL's first 3 clubs, la liga's first 2 clubs bundi's first 2 clubs, bordeaux and lyon).rfu said:
of course it was worth it. the visibility and the money u get from champions league easily makes up for the bad performances. u see, for a midclass club, it's not about winning a cup (if that would be the case, then europa league would be much better for us).... it's mostly a financial matter. let me make an examplerfu said:
)Too many Doh! moments for me. If it wasn't for Castellazzi... Where is Accardi by the way? He was quality, a bit light, but an assured presence at the back.
yep, it's a shame to get so close to champions league and miss it in the final week of the season. i can't complain about anything anyhow... this has been an amazing season and even just competing for the 4th spot made me experience feelings that, being a palermo fan, i never experienced before. it's been a great ride.gerd said:
we do have a long term project mate. and a good one! u don't get to build such a team, play such football get a 5th place in serie a without a project.rfu said:
of course not, we're certainly good enough to get there (in theory). but europa league (or uefa cup), like champions league, is a cup competition, wich means the luck factor is huge: u can kick the crap out of a much better team, and then lose against a weaker opponent at the very next stage, just coz you're worried about your upcoming serie a fixture.rfu said:
