Author Randall Barfield sends us 10 questions from his Little Soccer Quiz Book.

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1. Sir Alex Ferguson is boss of which UK team?
2. In what city is the Santiago Bernabeu stadium located?

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Alberto Aquilani is in contention to make his long-awaited full Liverpool debut on Saturday as Rafael Benítez looks to the £20m summer signing to reinvigorate the club's season against Manchester City.

The Italy international has played only 21 minutes for Liverpool since arriving from Roma in August, as a substitute against Birmingham City and Arsenal, because of his recovery from ankle surgery plus illness.

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Nike is a relative newcomer to the boot game. What Nike has lacked in substance they've usually made up in style. Their autumn ad campaign channels Irvine Welsh's finest prose by asking us to choose; choose control, choose speed, choose accuracy, choose touch or choose 5-a-side. I chose control, specifically Nike's CTR360 Trequartista AG.

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Liverpool have signed one of the best players in the world according to Alberto Aquilani's former teammate Francesco Totti.
The Italian forward claims his ex-Roma teammate will be a huge success at Anfield despite only featuring in two substitute appearances for Rafa Benitez's side.
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What on earth could have caused Francesco Totti's wife Ilary to have such a reaction?

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We've seen Fabio Capello, Jose Mourinho and others of their ilk get the Italian TV show Chiambretti Night treatment, and this time around it was Ilary's turn.

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What on earth could have caused Francesco Totti's wife Ilary to have such a reaction?

Click through to find out. (And no, it's not seeing her hubby in a mullet.)

We've seen Fabio Capello, Jose Mourinho and others of their ilk get the Italian TV show Chiambretti Night treatment, and this time around it was Ilary's turn.

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Paolo Di Canio attacca Francesco Totti. Il derby, che li ha visti contro per tanti anni sul prato dell'Olimpico, si tsrasforma in una contesa di natura verbale. In queste ore, l'ex bandiera biancoceleste, che ora si diletta a fare l'opinionista in tv e studia per diventare allenatore, esprime chiaramente il proprio dissenso per il ritorno in nazionale del giallorosso: "Mi sembra assolutamente fuori luogo. Click to continue reading...

All the stuff being covered outside the unfriendly confines of the award winning Dirty Tackle...

'80s Totti needs to be real. [ONTD]

Florentino Perez is already making excuses for this season. [FourFourTwo]

Iker Casillas is a matchmaker. [Kickette]

Newcastle fans are trying to buy their club to avoid further embarrassment.

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Join Kevin Walker and Dov Schiavone as they discuss all things Italian Serie A including, outcomes...
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Inter Milan v AS Roma
Serie A
Sunday, 8 November 2009
San Siro
Kick off: 20:45

As Internazionale faces AS Roma at the San Siro this Sunday, Roma manager Claudio Ranieri will be hoping that the evidence he is looking at is wrong.

Exhibit item A tells Ranieri that Roma without Francesco Totti does not offer much this season.

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Roma-Inter from May of 1999 is another highly entertaining game from one of the most entertaining Serie A seasons of all time. The 1998-99 season had 3 leaders of the table (for the first part of the season it was Fiorentina, who were winter champions but were then hurt by the injury of Batistuta, then Lazio, who looked on their way to the Scudetto but fell off form towards the end, and then Milan who surprised everyone and stole the Scudetto on the last day).

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Let's enjoy a lush trifecta of footballer perfection avec children:

David Beckham with his oldest son Brooklyn at the Lakers game last night. Photo details that make us feel safe and secure: Brooklyn's untied shoelaces and David's chomped on candy apple;

Francesco Totti and his seriously enamoured son Christian.

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Let's enjoy a lush trifecta of footballer perfection avec children:

David Beckham with his oldest son Brooklyn at the Lakers game last night. Photo details that make us feel safe and secure: Brooklyn's untied shoelaces and David's chomped-on candy apple;

Francesco Totti and his seriously enamoured son Christian.

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Azzurri coach Marcello Lippi has come under heavy criticism in recent months despite Italy's success in qualifying to the World Cup in South Africa. La Nazionale went through an alarming goal drought and was only able to overcome it after two unfortunate own goals from returning Georgia captain Kakha Kaladze.

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All the stuff being covered outside the unfriendly confines of the award winning Dirty Tackle...

Will England be staying a snicker-inducing Royal Bafokeng Hotel (say it fast) during the World Cup? [Channelbee]

Real Madrid players got their free Audis after test driving them in the snow.

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Two large Italian clubs received huge injury news today as they sought to climb up the Serie A table.

Juventus star and striker Vincent Iaquinta revealed today that he has a torn meniscus and will have surgery on his knee Tuesday. He injured it during training Saturday and did not play this Sunday against Siena.

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Francesco Totti è stato operato al ginocchio destro. L' intervento di "meniscectomia artroscopica mediale selettiva" (questa la definizione esatta dell'operazione eseguita sul martoriato ginocchio del capitano giallorosso) è stato eseguito a Villa Stuart. Tutto è andato per il meglio, nessuna lesione è stata riscontrata. Click to continue reading...

You can watch Fulham v Roma Live online here.

Fulham v Roma
Craven Cottage
Europa League
Thursday 22 October 20:05 BST

Claudio Ranieri will be hoping that his good record against Fulham FC – and their manager Roy Hodgson – will count for something as AS Roma visit Fulham FC in UEFA Europa League Group E, seeking a first competitive win in London.

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The Great Serie A Game posts continue with Roma-Juve 2003/2004. The 2003/2004 season was an interesting one. Milan, fresh from a Champions League victory and with some new young Brazilian player named Kaka, were dominating Serie A. While Marcello Lippi's Juve looked to be favorites to combat the Rossoneri to the Scudetto, it was not the case.

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Winning the World Cup twice on the trot is one of the hardest feats in sports and that's exactly what Italy are aiming to do next summer in South Africa. Yesterday, we gave you the first two keys if Italy are going to pull off the historic double. Today, we present the final two.

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The matches to watch after you read about the prank war between Burnley and Blackburn.

Saturday

Aston Villa v Chelsea at Villa Park Go hump a turtle in joy because club football is finally back. Luke Young makes his season debut for Villa in this one and Petr Cech returns from his red card suspension.

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All the stuff being covered outside the unfriendly confines of the award winning Dirty Tackle...

Aliaksandr Hleb's little brother Vyacheslav, who plays for Chinese club Shanghai Shenhua, isn't quite as good as his older sibling.

US striker Charlie Davies is in surgery after a serious car accident and Freddy Adu becomes the first footballer to make good use of Twitter.

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by FRANCO PANIZO

U.S. national team defender Jay DeMerit may soon be going under the knife.

DeMerit will be monitored over the next ten days by Watford in order to determine if he needs surgery for an eye infection in his right eye. The infection came when DeMerit accidentally cut his eye while removing a contact lens.

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by FRANCO PANIZO

U.S. national team defender Jay DeMerit may soon be going under the knife.

DeMerit will be monitored over the next ten days by Watford in order to determine if he needs surgery for an eye infection in his right eye. The infection came when DeMerit accidentally cut his eye while removing a contact lens.

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Ora che si possono prepare con grande felicità e speranze le valige per il Sudafrica, grazie alla perla di Gilardino, realizzata a tempo scaduto contro l'Eire, occorre pensare a come sarà composto il gruppo degli azzurri che affronteranno il Mondiale da campioni in carica. Tanti i dubbi da sciogliere, prima di poter approntare la lista definitiva dei 23 giocatori che faranno parte della spedizione. Click to continue reading...

Sorry I didn't get up a weekend round-up yesterday, it was a really busy day. However I don't want to disrupt the weekly order so I'll go straight to Goals of the Week. Last week was probably the worst goals of the week post of all time. I think this week made up for it with some quality strikes.

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Here we are seven league games into the season and with Juve, Inter and Sampdoria the early pace setters,who will be top of Serie A. Can Milan improve after a very poor start to the season and Roma will be hoping for a victory over Napoli to push up the table.

Bari 0-0 Catania

Inter Milan 2-1 Udinese

Roma 2-1 Napoli

Bologna 1-3 Genoa

Siena 0-0 Livorno

Atalanta 1-1 Milan

Cagliari 1-2 Chievo

Sampdoria 1-1 Parma

Fiorentina 0-0 Lazio

Palermo 2-0 Juventus

Inter Milan gained a creditable victory against Udinese although Di Natale continued his rich vein of form by netting his ninth goal of the season.

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Today was my first sight of Roma under Claudio Ranieri.The first thing that struck me about the new Roma was a desire to defend. Out went the champagne football in came the six pack.Collectively Roma look solid in the 4-4-2.They now defend in numbers and at times today looked strong doing so.The sight was almost startling. Click to continue reading...

Top of the Pops

Having been invaded by wingers, second strikers and midfielders last season, the Premier League top scorers chart is beginning to have a familiar look to it again. It's populated by centre-forwards. 7 games into the season the top 10 scorers in the league are all strikers.

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(ANSA) - Rome, September 29 - AS Roma on Tuesday unveiled plans to build a new stadium on the outskirts of the Italian capital.
Roma President Rosella Sensi said the idea of the club having its own stadium, instead of renting one from the city council, had ``always been at the centre`` of her late father Franco`s plans, as well as those of another historic club president, Dino Viola. Click to continue reading...

After midweek fixtures in Italy as well as this weekend's results, all of the Serie A clubs have played two more games and we are left with surprise leaders of Serie A.

Midweek results:

Palermo 3-3 Roma

Lazio 1-2 Parma

Udinese 1-0 Milan

Siena 0-0 Chievo

Fiorentina 2-0 Sampdoria

Bari 0-1 Cagliari

Bologna 2-0 Livorno

Atalanta 0-0 Catania

Inter Milan 3-1 Napoli

Genoa 2-2 Juventus

A late equaliser from Totti saved Roma a point at the Renzo Barbera while the dark days at AC Milan appear to be getting ever darker as they slumped to a 1-0 defeat to Udinese.

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GOOD WEEK

The Golden Age
Hats off to Francesco Totti and Michael Ballack for celebrating their 33rd birthdays last week. We'll cheers to the three decades of computer-melting mancandy material they've supplied us with. You know, like this. And this. And also this if you're into that kind of thing.

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In this week's quiz we test your knowledge about all things Italian football. The answers to the quiz will appear tomorrow.

1. An easy one to start with. Which club has won most Serie A titles?

2. When was the last time AC Milan won the scudetto (Serie A title)?

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After reports that Ronaldinho may be retiring, Milan needed a convincing victory against Bologna while Juventus and Inter wished to continue their good starts to the season.

So here are the results and to be honest, no great surprises in what occurred.

Napoli 0-0 Udinese

Juventus 2-0 Livorno

Catania 1-1 Lazio

Milan 1-0 Bologna

Sampdoria 4-1 Siena

Cagliari 1-2 Inter Milan

Parma 1-0 Palermo

Bari 4-1 Atalanta

Chievo 3-1 Genoa

Roma 3-1 Fiorentina

A good away victory for Inter sees them enter the top three for the first time this season.

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Francesco Totti and his beautiful family are on the cover of this month's Vanity Fair Italia. Francesco puts rumours to rest about his relationship with Ilary Blasi saying he still loves her deeply and there is no gossip to be had. Image via Vanity Fair/Leggonline.it

Lucas Neill and his sexy, aggro self might be playing again soon for Everton.

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