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Team Focus: Galatasaray's Four Stars

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Team Focus: Galatasaray's Four Stars The Süper Lig title race was settled in its penultimate week. As with most things Turkish football related, there was plenty of drama involved. Stars, red cards and flying kicks were all the rage in a week history was made. Galatasaray defeated rivals Beşiktaş 2-0 in the Istanbul derby, which m...

League Focus: Five Serie A Transfers to Watch Out For

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League Focus: Five Serie A Transfers to Watch Out For Wesley SneijderAs a member of Inter’s treble-winning team in 2010 and a fan favourite at San Siro, it sure would be strange to see Wesley Sneijder in a Juventus shirt. One of the principal reasons the Dutchman has entered the hearts of the Nerazzurri is the number of occasions he has inflicted...

Team Focus: Cesare Prandelli - 99 Problems and 3-5-2 is One

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Team Focus: Cesare Prandelli - 99 Problems and 3-5-2 is One “There is nothing wrong with the tactics,” Cesare Prandelli stressed following Galatasaray’s humiliating 4-1 defeat against Arsenal in the Champions League.Prandelli had already used a 4-3-2-1, 4-3-1-2 and 4-2-3-1 before his latest eureka moment - a 3-5-2 setup against Arsenal. The...

Player Focus: Wesley Sneijder

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Player Focus: Wesley Sneijder I'm going with my head high, I'm going to a great team, there's no doubt about that. I've been very happy here but now I have to look ahead and focus on my new team. What happened with me is something very strange. They have treated me very badly but I prefer not to talk about it.”Those words,...

Euro 2012 Focus: Netherlands vs Germany

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Euro 2012 Focus: Netherlands vs Germany Tonight's massive game between the Netherlands and Germany hardly needed extra intensity but given the fact that the latter could dump Holland out of the tournament prematurely, it should be a real thriller. There is certainly no love lost between the two great European footballing nations and while...

Team Focus: Inter - Problems Much More Serious Than Schoolboy Errors

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Team Focus: Inter - Problems Much More Serious Than Schoolboy Errors Now famous across Italy, young Inter fan Filippo recently held up a placard at the Stadio Giuseppe Meazza, begging his heroes to play well so he wasn’t made fun of at school. Sadly for the kid, whose sad fate has not only been broadcast to the nation but is now the ridicule of Milan fans, ligh...

Team Focus: The Same But Different: What's Behind Inter's Revival?

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Team Focus: The Same But Different: What's Behind Inter's Revival? During the early 1960's, New York Yankees legend Yogi Berra watched two other greats - Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris - repeatedly hit back-to-back home runs and commented; it's déjà vu all over again. While Inter's black and blue shirts could never be confused with the Bronx Bombers fa...

Europe's Underachievers: Serie A - Inter Milan

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Europe's Underachievers: Serie A - Inter Milan Our look at Europe's top underachieving clubs leads us to Italy, where two of Serie A's giants are flailing low down in the bottom half of the table. While Inter fans will be delighted with AC Milan's slow start to the season, they will be more concerned with their own demise having racked up just 4...

Last Gasp Defeat Opens Door for Ranieri at Inter

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Last Gasp Defeat Opens Door for Ranieri at Inter It was meant to be the dawn of a new era. With Leonardo’s departure to PSG this summer, Inter turned to Gian Piero Gasperini after a disappointing 2010/11 campaign saw them lose their Serie A crown to Massimo Allegri’s Milan. Five games into his tenure and the former Genoa boss was gone;...

Are Inter and Gasperini going the right way?

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Are Inter and Gasperini going the right way? “Non Vincete Mai! (You never win)” Was the chant that Inter Milan’s opposition fans, especially those from AC Milan, sang to Inter at every match before the 2006 Calcio scandal. Fourteen titles later, including the 2010 Champions League, that same chant is only but a mirage, but In...