Two sure signs Raymond Domenech is insane: 1)Philippe Mexes doesn't have a regular spot in the French national team, and 2)Sebastian Frey is currently FOURTH on their goalkeeping depth chart.

Moving on. Holy shit, what a game I don't know about you people, but my heart is still pounding. Despite the periodic flurries of giveaways in the midfield, the skill on display between those two teams was enough to take your breath away, particularly among the young Italians like Aquilani (who came on and was immediately involved in a goal) and Montolivo, whose intelligence and poise is just completely ridiculous.

When Francesco Coco revealed last week (You have no idea if this is going to be the porn or reality TV part, do you?) that he was quitting football to become a film star, one assumed he a)meant something beyond the (alleged) gay orgy photographers (allegedly) caught him in the midst of last year, and b)that he'd actually make, you know, films.

•Luca Toni continues to completely own the Bundesliga, scoring his fifth goal over the weekend, while wee Giuseppe Rossi scored one and setting up another in about 20 minutes for Villareal, both of them leaving us wondering what would have happened if they'd stayed home. (And no, I don't mean New Jersey in Rossi's case.)

•Crowd trouble at Napoli's Stadio San Paolo last night has led the FIGC to close the ground entirely for Sunday's match against Genoa.

Empoli opened their first-ever European adventure in fantastic fashion, beating FC Zurich (Not to be confused with that other Zurich team, the dreaded Grasshoppers.) 2-1 at home, with an almost entirely second-choice team. Woo hoo! Reports indicated Empoli's youngsters thoroughly dominated the game, and that the win was well-deserved. Palermo also managed a win, narrowly defeating Czech side Mlada Boleslav on an injury-time winner by Bosko Jankovic (BOSKO!

When Antonio Cassano went down over the weekend in a friendly against Swiss side Bellinzona one organized in large part to help him get fit it was feared his leg injury was severe enough to keep him out for "several weeks," a dismal occurrence for a player so desperate to make a fresh start. Depending on who you believe, the latest is either a great relief or sad news for the "unruly striker," because some people say he'll be out only for a couple weeks, while others are reporting he'll be on the shelf for a full month.

This first half of this match was pretty dismal a stop-start, boring, sloppy waste of time. The only reason a goal was scored is because an Atalanta defender managed to take out everyone in goal mouth when the ball was coming, and it trickled it because there was no one to stop it it wasn't as if there was a convincing shot on a goal, or anything.

Note: I've got meetings all day then am getting on a plane; normal service will resume tomorrow.

In case you missed it, our beloved Bobo scored yesterday (rest assured that, once pictures are working again, there will be one of him here), an event which we should all be celebrating by drinking heavily and behaving inappropriately today, work be damned.

Jesus, what is it with watch-muggings in Italy? Poor Bobo Vieri was held up back in February for his outrageously expensive watch (Seriously. It was worth €16,000. That's, like, a small car, for the love of God), and just today the great Serse Cosmi was robbed getting out of his car in the middle of Brescia, and had two Rolexes stolen.