This posting comes just three days before Italy’s all-important opening match against Ghana at the 2006 World Cup. Head coach Marcello Lippi should be a wee bit worried as Milan’s midfielder Gennaro Gattuso is out for a few days. Gattuso is affectionately called Italy’s “pit-bulls”. He comes from the school of “take no prisoners”. Juventus’s Zambrotta is still out too. Should be an interesting match as most of the country will come to a standstill on Monday night. Yyesterday, Lippi at the first official press conference at Italy’s training camp in Germany told reporters to concentrate more on Italy’s presence at the World Cup than on what is currently going on in Italy vis-à-vis the soccer scandal which has involved many important managers and refs.
Further to my posting on violence the other day, many years ago, almost 20, during a Roma-Lazio derby, someone snuck into the Olympic Stadium a small missile(!!). The idiot fired it off, it crossed length-wise the entire stadium and landed (literally) in the eye socket of a poor Lazio fan, killing him (naturally) on the spot. I think the stadium now has a special plaque in the poor fellow’s honour. A terrorist couldn’t have done better that day!
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