Inconcepibile. L'Isola Liri (nella foto), club laziale di Serie C2 (da qualche anno Seconda Divisione Lega Pro) viene colpita, in massa, dal virus H1N1 dell'influenza A (11 casi accertati e due casi sospetti), ma è costretta ugualmente scendere in campo nel match di campionato che si svolgerà in quel di Vico Equense. Click to continue reading...

A new version of Football Manager is released today, which makes this, in my house at least, a time of hushed reflection. The old era is passing away, the new era is rising up before us. Everything we knew and loved is sliding into the sea, while before us, like a mountainous country, is thrust a terrifying and exhilarating possibility.

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It is a sign of the decline of Italian football in recent years that a trip to Florence at the end of September wasn't at least, not before kick-off a cause of major concern for Liverpool. Ten or fifteen years ago things might have been different, but the Premier League is wallowing and basking in its opulence at the moment while Italian football is scratching its head and wondering where things went wrong.

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Last week I posted the Calcio Quiz. I know I originally said I would post the answers on Wednesday, but nobody has really tried to answer since Thursday so I'll go ahead and unveil the answers today. I hope the quiz was challenging, and maybe I'll post more editions of the Calcio Quiz in the future if I can think up 50 more questions!

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Like the hard fist of Beowulf smashing repeatedly into the sternum of a cringing, slobbering Grendel...actually, hold that thought. Fifteen games into a do-or-die season with Pro Vercelli, it's time to confront an icy truth. Since I came to the club, we've done well. We've earned multiple promotions, done a cameo in the Champions League, and established ourselves as the fifth-richest club in Italy.

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Who had their bets on Stefano Colantuono? The Roman manager has been sacked only after one game by Palermo president Maurizio Zamparini. Colantuono was sacked this season and replaced by Francesco Guidolin and then was brought back when Guidolin was let go and then confirmed as manager for the coming season.

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To combat the number of clubs finding financial instability and even going belly up, Lega Pro, the new name for Serie C1 & C2 in Italian calcio conjured up to confuse people, have decided to put a cap on the number of players each team can employ (actual number still unclear), effectively "cutting jobs" for [. Click to continue reading...