Stats Analysis: Serie A's Magnificent Seventies
by Adam Digby
at giovedì, mar 29 2012 12:49
The prominent American novelist Tom Wolfe dubbed it ‘The Me Decade’ as many of his countrymen “abandoned communal and left wing politics to take the money and run” yet, looking purely from a Serie A stand point, the 1970’s gave birth to a generation of footballers who h...
Team Focus: Elephants Of Catania Marching Into Europe?
by Adam Digby
at martedì, mar 20 2012 13:02
A team currently in eighth place in the league would rarely catch the attention of many and, when the side is a tiny club that has rarely left an impression on Italian football the likelihood of them catching the eye falls even further. Yet there sit Catania, a club only founded in 1946 as the game ...
Player Focus: Fabrizio Miccoli - Maradona Of The Salento
by Adam Digby
at mercoledì, mar 14 2012 10:35
The name of Diego Maradona, despite his retirement as a player coming as long ago as 1997, is never far from the headlines, whether it be yet another comparison with Lionel Messi or his latest incredulous outburst as coach of Dubai side Al Wasl, the man widely regarded as the worlds greatest ever fo...
Player Focus: Another Hat Trick For Milan’s Zlatan Ibrahimovic?
by Adam Digby
at giovedì, mar 8 2012 14:45
The three midweek fixtures in Serie A on Wednesday meant that finally the league table had parity restored as all the matches cancelled due to bad weather were played at last. This provides us with, after weeks of various teams having games-in-hand, an opportunity to assess where the clubs sit with ...
Player Focus: Hugo Campagnaro - From Nightmare To Neapolitan Dream
by Adam Digby
at venerdì, mar 2 2012 11:36
Team Focus: Inter - Problems Much More Serious Than Schoolboy Errors
by Adam Digby
at mercoledì, feb 22 2012 12:12
Team Focus: Remarkable Robur - Assessing Giuseppe Sannino's Siena
by Adam Digby
at lunedì, feb 20 2012 13:03
At first glance, newly promoted Siena seemingly offer very little in the way of talking points, sitting in sixteenth place in Serie A and just five points outside the relegation places. They also have none of the big name players seeing out their playing days lower down the table that some of the si...
Stats Analysis: More Serie A Surprises - Aerial Superiority
by Adam Digby
at giovedì, feb 9 2012 13:03
Unlike other leagues, Serie A is not commonly associated with great headers of the ball, even among its defenders. While England and English football bring to mind classic number nines and lumbering central defenders, Italy is more readily thought of for bringing culture to the game and beyond the a...
Team Focus: Purple Patch - Fiorentina's Surprising Defence
by Adam Digby
at venerdì, feb 3 2012 15:34
When looking at Fiorentina from afar, good news is seemingly hard to find. For a club with a history as storied as theirs, Viola heroes such as Giancarlo Antognoni, Gabriel Batistuta and Manuel Rui Costa have never felt so far away. The club appear to be the living embodiment of Murphy's Law; the ow...
Team Focus: The Same But Different: What's Behind Inter's Revival?
by Adam Digby
at giovedì, gen 26 2012 16:01