What's it like to be the coach of the world's worst team? When a moral victory is keeping your opponent under ten goals or just scoring a goal, it can't be much fun.
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Literally kicking another manager's ass, as in foot to butt, in front basically the whole world is not a good idea.

[Posts on the death of Gabriele Sandri and subsequent events are collected here; this post is being updated with the latest news. It's been announced that Luigi Spaccarotella the shooter will face murder charges.]

First and probably most importantly, as long as you're not tender-shinned Scotland-killer Luca Toni, is the news that the FIGC have banned the supporters of 15 clubs across all divisions from traveling when play resumes, presumably after the international break.

•The Cicinho saga is finally over, with Roma paying Real Madrid €9 million for his services. (Chris has all the details on this one, as well as lots and lots of video evidence of Cicinho's awesomeness.)

•Ronaldinho is getting his Spanish passport on Monday. This blessed event makes him fit precisely into Adriano Galliani's description of his mysterious Mr.

•Giampaolo Pazzini has extended his contract with Fiorentina for another two years, which means he's now tied to the club through 2011. Eeeeeexcellent.

•Catania have let a little radiation leak scare them off their pre-season tour of Japan. Bunch of freaking babies.

•In their first big signing of the summer, Napoli look to have beaten both Lazio and Atalanta to the signature of Uruguyan midfielder Walter Gargano; the 23-year-old has reportedly agreed to a five-year deal.

Which is the most cost-effective team in Serie A? That is, who spends the least amount of money per point obtained? Here's an idea that came straight from the great source of footy information that is TheOffside.com. When he's not passionately writing about the Giallorossi or the Italian national team, RomaChris (author of the Roma blog [.

The 'National Observatory of Sport Competitions' (Osservatorio Nazionale sulle Manifestazioni Sportive), that little body that decides which of the Italian league matches are considered 'at risk', has just forbidden stadium access to supporter groups of 5 Serie A teams travelling for away games. The matches in question concern matchday 14 of Italian league top fligh, [.

Gianluca Falsini and Armando Pantanelli are having quite a summer. First, they were frozen out by Catania (Pantanelli has since moved to Avellino in Serie B) and not even allowed to train with the rest of the squad, then they actually won the lawsuit they brought against the club for the Shocking!Treatment they received, and were restored to normal training as a result.

Anyone watching today's match could tell Milan are a much better team than Catania, but the Rossoneri just cannot put the ball on net, and Catania made them pay with one great counter and a lot of toughness.

Catania actually looked great in the first half Milan dominated possession, but the Sicilian club put so much presure on their midfielders that no one really had room to run at the defense, and Andrea Pirlo was taken almost entirely out of the game by the lack of space.

As a very irritated PalermoSteven noted yesterday, the Observatory for Sport has banned Palermo supporters from traveling to Catania for Sunday's Sicilian derby. In addition, home supporters are forbidden to buy more than one ticket, or to resell the one they're allowed. (As you may recall, the last time this fixture was played, Filippo Raciti was killed in fighting outside the ground, a tragedy that, among other things, led to the creation of the very body that has handed down the ban.

•The latest on poor, unloved Antonio Cassano is that he's either going to Inter this winter (in exchange for Adriano, of course even Inter can only handle one out-of-form headcase at a time), or will end up in England, with Bolton or, if god has a sense of humor, West Ham, where he would form a dream tantrum team with the one and only Craig Bellamy.

•After months (and months) of transfer rumors Because, really, Udinese? Who wants to stay there? Fabio Quagliarella has signed an extension that will keep him at the club until 2012. Not, mind you, that this means he'll be in black and white until that date, but at least now whoever tries to buys him between now and then will have to pay through the nose for his services.

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Things were already tense on the pitch, but in the dying minutes of yesterday's 2-2 draw between Catania and Parma the people on the touchline rather dramatically stole the spotlight. In the 88th minute, new Catania coach Silvio Baldini was sent off for dissent, an event that somehow led to a heated exchange with Parma's Domencio Di Carlo.

As we chortled gleefully about yesterday, the resident genius of French football, Raymond Domenech, has talked himself into a suspension for his team's upcoming match against the Azzurri. After very specifically accusing Italy of buying the referees for an Olympic qualifier against France in 2000, he was sadly unable to come up with the "dossier" of proof he claimed to have, and UEFA figured a game away from the touchline was appropriate punishment.

With all the MISN-related craziness (see previous post) and the fact I had my driving exam yesterday (which I passed, yay me) I've barely had time to post something about Sunday's games. By this time I'm sure you've all checked the news & results, so I'll keep this short. Here goes. Rest of the 'Big 4′ [...]

•Former Milan player Oscar Damiani, now a FIFA agent who somehow oversees his old club's transfers, has revealed to the press that Milan decided mid-summer to stick with poor Alberto Gilardino after they had already made "positive contact" with strikers such as Luca Toni, Ruud Van Nistelrooy and David Trezeguet. Brilliant. (In case you're not up on these things, Trezeguet has five goals in four games, while Gila hasn't scored with anyone but his wife in months.

Full Name: Unione Sportiva Citt di Palermo
City: Palermo
Founded: 1900
Stadium: Stadio Renzo Barbera - La Favorita (36,980)
Colors: Black, Pink
Previous: Anglo Panormitan Athletic and Football Club (1900-07), Palermo Football Club
Nicknames: Rosanero (The Pink and Black), Aquile (The Eagles)
Rivals: Catania, Messina
Originally founded by English expatriates as Anglo Panormitan Athletic and Football Club, Panormitan meaning 'from Palermo'.

Editor's note: Most of you will have noticed that we often linked to Rome-based blogger Spangly Princess during the recent crisis in Italy. Well, she'll now be writing regularly for Pitch Invasion, and today brings us an update on the Catania-Palermo rivalry, ten months on from the death of a policeman that marked the previous [.

I have no idea exactly how it happened, but Lazio just turned in a convincing win over a team above them in the table, and looked awfully good for the first hour or so. (I know it's only Catania and that they were missing their leading scorers, but still. Baby steps.) Though the match virtually opened with Christian Terlizzi hitting the crossbar of Marco Ballotta's goal, Lazio turned around and took the lead minutes later, when Tommaso Rocchi, who played a great match, won a free kick and then scored with a glancing header when Cristian Ledesma swung the ball in.