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pineapple stu
23/09/2016, 2:28 PM
Bloody heck.

I wonder if that team and the bankruptcies are linked? :p
SkStu
24/09/2016, 10:59 AM
Pretty small little place so by Italian standards - 48,000 people.

Poor old Parma, it wasn't always so bleak...

https://media.balls.ie/uploads/2015/02/Parma_vs_Marseille_1999-05-12.jpg

Fr Romeo Sensini there at the back. Class act.
TheOneWhoKnocks
24/09/2016, 11:33 AM
A bit bottom and top heavy, which seems to sum up Italian football.

You can list off 5 goalkeepers, 10 defenders and 10 strikers from the halcyon days of the late 80's to early 00's before you namecheck a midfielder.
DeLorean
26/09/2016, 11:16 AM
Bloody heck.

I wonder if that team and the bankruptcies are linked? :p

Don't think so, they sold Crespo for a world record fee at the time to Lazio for £35.5m. According to Wikipedia it was the financial meltdown of their parent company, Parmalat, that put them in trouble. It was their injection of cash that brought success in the first place though, so maybe they overdid it!


Fr Romeo Sensini there at the back. Class act.

Haha I thought he was more of a number ten :)
pineapple stu
27/09/2016, 9:57 AM
Totti scored last week. Again. His 250th league goal, all for Roma, his hometown team. At least 70 of them were penalties.

He's 40 today. Made his Roma debut as a 16-year-old.

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DeLorean
27/09/2016, 10:17 AM
When he scored against Sampdoria the other week, it was his 23rd season in a row scoring a Serie A goal. A great selection of them here - he loves his dinks and derby goals especially. Pure class.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJhiVJN404s
CraftyToePoke
27/09/2016, 8:14 PM
You can list off 5 goalkeepers, 10 defenders and 10 strikers from the halcyon days of the late 80's to early 00's before you namecheck a midfielder.

Baggio / Del Piero sprung to mind, but would you see them as strikers ? Totti, also.
punkrocket
01/12/2016, 12:56 PM
Very interesting article on Ultras at Juventus.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/01/nside-talys-ultras-the-dangerous-fans-who-control-the-game
DeLorean
09/12/2016, 7:53 AM
Poor old Parma, it wasn't always so bleak...

https://media.balls.ie/uploads/2015/02/Parma_vs_Marseille_1999-05-12.jpg

I see Enrico Chiesa's son played, scored and got sent off for Fiorentina in the Europa League last night... way to make me feel old.

(Cue OwlsFan saying he remembers his great grandfather playing :))