Posts Tagged as ‘Italy’

June 17, 2008

Match Report: Italy 2-0 France

UEFA Euro 2008
Group Stage: Group C
Zurich
Att: 25,000
Italy 2-0 France
Ten years’ ago this month, France were World Champions. Two years’ ago, France almost became World Champions once again. But after this defeat against an Italian side that is finally showing some promise, and to refer to Domenech’s much-discussed star-gazing, France is in the midst of a [...]

June 6, 2008

Euro 2008: Preview! – THE GROUP OF DEATH

There’s a football tournament starting on Saturday, you know.
Yes, behind the new of Mark Hughes’ appointment at Manchester City; England’s act of diplomacy in travelling to Trinidad & Tobago being acknowledged as an official ‘A’ game; and Cristiano Ronaldo now looking to be on his way to Real Madrid, Austria and Switzerland are preparing themselves [...]

January 16, 2008

Capello and the Italian tax system

Oh dear. Or is it ‘oh dear?’ Fabio Capello is under investigation by Italian authorities for tax evasion.
It’s difficult to know what to make of this story. At the most extreme end, it will ruin his England career if it’s proven relatively quickly, although I doubt that’ll happen.
Yet on the contrary, it seems that in [...]