All Italian Offside coverage has been moved to SB Nation. I will give you guys more information when I can, but for now that's it really. My first post is a season preview on Novara. Let me know what you think.

It's the time of year again, and as I count down the days (38) until the Serie A season starts, we have to entertain ourselves with pre-season friendlies. Meaningless games where showboating is not encouraged and where provincial sides lose by double figures. So I thought I would do a round-up:

Inter flew out to Germany to play Galatasaray in a match that saw Luca Castellazzi stretchered-off with a head injury.

I wrote this article two days ago, but Wordpress hates me, so I could only get it up now. Sorry if it feels old...

It's exactly forty days until the Serie A season officially begins (28th August 2011). I think I'll take a break from criticising the FIGC to write about some recent transfer rumours and an argument in Rome, with some pre-season friendlies thrown in for good measure.

The Italian FA have somehow confirmed that they can not strip Internazionale Milano of their 2006 Scudetto. Now maybe it's because I'm looking at Italian football through my corruption-free tinted glasses, but I expected at least some action to me taken. The FIGC's "executive committee" met in Rome today, and the decision was confirmed.

So the news is back! Sorry for the delays with some of my recent articles, but Wordpress has been acting up. The transfer window is very much alive, unfortunately.

• Juventus continue to pursue a striker in La Liga, but it's no longer Sergio Aguero, instead Villarreal's Giuseppe Rossi might be on his way to Turin.

After a goalless draw with Serie A Champions AC Milan on the last day of the 2010/11 season, Udinese qualified for the UEFA Champions League for the first time in five years.
An extremely unpredictable result considering they were in the midst of a relegation battle the season before, eventually finishing fifteenth.

This post isn't really going to be about Serie A, or professional football in general. Instead I'm going to explain the rules of game that is played all over Italy called Ventuno.

Ventuno is a game that is best played in about four or five people, but the minimum is three. A football is required, but proper goal posts are not.

This is another news type article, just wanted to ask you guys how often you would like to see them. Maybe daily, or every two or three days, let me know.

• La Gazzetta dello Sport are reporting that Chelsea's Andre Villas-Boas is interested in Roma midfielder Daniele De Rossi.

9th of July 2006. The fact that we won the World Cup meant very little to me, it was the way in which we won that made us special.

The cancer that still is Calciopoli had just been let loose. Italian football was entering a very dark place. Corruption and fraud were a common sight. Yet for one day we managed to win by overcoming our difficulties.

Following the news that evidence of former Inter President Giacinto Facchetti involved in match-fixing back in 2006 was released, newspapers all in Italy have been all over the story. Many of them claiming that Inter should give their 2006 Scudetto back. One of these newspapers was La Gazzetta dello Sport, not only one of the most popular sport dailys, but one of the most popular newspapers in general.

As we count down the days to the upcoming season, everyone is closely following the comings and goings of the transfer window. For the next few weeks I will start many news posts with transfer rumours. Followed by the main story the papers.

• Although Roma insist it's not going to happen, many news agencies continue to report they are on the verge of snapping up Erik Lamela.

Ciao, My name is Dylan, and I'll be taking over blogging duties from Julian. It's been almost two months since the Serie A Offside was last updated, and I could not bare to watch no one continue the great president that has been set. I will not claim to have the knowledge that others may have, but I have a passion for writing.

I wrote this back in February for a site which is no longer around. In light of the impending FA Cup final, I thought it would be apropos to repost it again, as it was. The facts and figures are outdated but the point remains the same.

Carl Jung would likely struggle to classify him.

Inter now join Palermo in battling it out in the final of the Coppa Italia on ay 29th at the Stadio Olimpico. Inter progressed through the semis after tying Roma 1-1 at home, having already won the away leg 1-0.

For Inter, this will be a very routine thing. The side have been in six Coppa Italia finals in the last seven years.

Palermo have reached their first Coppa Italia final in over three decades. The Rosanero beat AC Milan 2-1 at home, to go through the semis on a 4-3 aggregate score. The side now faces either Roma or Inter in the final at the Stadio Olimpico on May 29th.

Aurelio De Laurentiis and Walter Mazzarri's tenuous relationship seems to be growing more and more fragile by the day.