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Diego Ghirardi is a sport fanatic from Italy, living in Melbourne. Played rugby and football as a kid, now mainly active in front of the TV or refereeing rugby. Diego enjoys writing in broken English, which should be read in a Franco Cozzo accent to render it more original.
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The chances to see the tricolour stitched on a different jersey than Juventus' black and white stripes is very high, but it remains to…
With the last round of Serie A done, only two managers won't get to eat their panettone. According to the Italian footballing proverb, a…
In the early hours of Monday morning (AEST), Bayern Munich and Paris Saint-Germain will square off in the Champions League final in Lisbon. Both…
Spanish team Sevilla has dominated the European competition in the new millennium. The final between Sevilla and Inter Milan was a spectacular 3-2 match…
Spain's and Italy's champions are eliminated from the major European competition. The 2017 finalists did not qualify for the quarter-finals in Lisbon. Winning on…
A long day awaits Genoa and Lecce tifosi ahead of the last games of the season, which kick off on Monday at 4:45am (AEST).…
As predicted, Juventus won the Italian championship for the ninth time in a row, the 36th in their history. The confirmation came overnight after…
After a long, painful hiatus Italy’s preferred pastime came back. In an empty Juventus Stadium, the Bianconeri hosted AC Milan in the second leg…
“Finalmente,” exclaim the Italian football fans. After eight long years of Juventus’ dictatorship, the race for the championship is open and most surprisingly it…
With five wins on the trot to start the season, is Inter Milan finally a contender to Juventus’ Serie A domination? After defeating AC…
There are only three teams on top of the ladder in Serie A at full score after two games: Juventus, Inter and Torino. Juventus…
With convincing wins in the opening round, Inter, Napoli and Atalanta launched their challenge to the reigning champions. Juventus opened 2019-20 Serie A season…
Will the Old Lady's streak of eight consecutive scudetti end? Italy's Serie A will start tomorrow when champions Juventus will play Parma at Ennio…
Will Moise Kean save Italian football? Kean can finish the work started by Mario Balotelli a decade ago and learn from his predecessor's experience…
Once upon a time Italian Football dominated the world scene. Distant memories nowadays of the world best descending to Italy to play in the…
Nice one Charlie… refs are humans and make errors, as anyone else on a sport pitch… no need for that sort of abuse
Referee abuse is eating away at the grassroots of rugby
Campanilismo is different, Campanilismo is what makes you jump for joy when the rival town team lose a match. Campanilismo is an unconditional love for your town, if a player wins you a game is an hero, if he makes your rivals win he is a fellon, independently from skin colour.
Moise Kean is the new face of Italian football
Seriously, Australian rugby has much bigger issues than Taniela wearing a Dolphins jersey…
COMMENT: Plenty of excuses but no excuse as Wallabies look like a squad of randoms playing park footy