QUOTE (han2503 @ Dec 16 2012, 05:00 AM) 
What's best for the team needs to be the number 1 priority not getting a bit of money for playing some friendlies in Dubai, because if we do not make the CL next year the loss would be a million times bigger
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QUOTE (han2503 @ Dec 16 2012, 01:00 AM)
And PLEASE for the love of god, no pointless friendlies in the winter break! Stay at Milanello, keep everyone focused, bring back the injured players and let's start up the new year in the best possible shape. It's ridiculous how each season we waste so much time at the start to gain form, cohesion and team unity.
What's best for the team needs to be the number 1 priority not getting a bit of money for playing some friendlies in Dubai, because if we do not make the CL next year the loss would be a million times bigger
What's best for the team needs to be the number 1 priority not getting a bit of money for playing some friendlies in Dubai, because if we do not make the CL next year the loss would be a million times bigger
Problem is lately it feels like this club always cares more about the future than now.
Nothing wrong with playing one friendly before January. Most clubs do it.
So Roma lost to Chievo today. Next week we can surpass them if able to win at Olimpico.
QUOTE (Jack Bauer @ Dec 16 2012, 09:22 PM)
So Roma lost to Chievo today. Next week we can surpass them if able to win at Olimpico.
It'd be difficult, but what an end of the year would be if we did!
Will Mexes be back?
I guess so.
1-1 between Napoli and Bologna so far (beginning of the second half). Hope they can hold on.
2-3 FT
Good result for us.
Good result for us.
It's not everyday that 3 of our direct rivals for a CL spot all lose.
Swell. Very good day for us, only 7 points from 2nd and 6 points from 3rd place. Gotta beat Roma next week to back it up.
Beating Roma next week will be crucial for us. They better be 100% ready for it
Do Roma play Coppa in the midweek?
Do Roma play Coppa in the midweek?
No, they beat Atalanta last week.
Great week, hopefully we'll continue our run!
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Napoli penalized 2 points for match-fixing
ROME (AP) -- Napoli was penalized two points in the Serie A standings Tuesday for match-fixing after its former goalkeeper confessed to arranging the result of a game three seasons ago.
The sentence by the Italian soccer federation's disciplinary committee dropped the southern club from a tie for third place into fifth position, 10 points behind league leader Juventus.
The penalty put a severe dent in Napoli's aim of winning the Serie A for the first time since Diego Maradona led the team to titles in 1987 and 1990.
Also, current Napoli captain Paolo Cannavaro and defender Gianluca Grava each were banned for six months for failing to report the fix.
Cannavaro is the younger brother of former Italy captain Fabio Cannavaro.
Napoli was also fined (euro) 70,000 ($92,000).
Both players, along with Napoli, deny any wrongdoing.
The keeper, Matteo Gianello, confessed to prosecutors that he attempted to fix the match between Sampdoria and Napoli on May 16, 2010.
Sampdoria won 1-0 on a goal in the 51st minute from current AC Milan player Giampaolo Pazzini. It was the final round of the season and the victory secured Sampdoria fourth place and a spot in Champions League qualifying.
Gianello was banned for three years and three months.
Appeals are expected.
Napoli issued a statement on its website saying that it does not agree with levying point penalties during the season.
''Each decision should be made before a season starts or at the end of a season,'' the club said. ''Plenty of time has passed since the 2009-10 season to evaluate and decide.''
Napoli added that it is ''confident that in the next two levels of justice real justice can be applied.''
''There's no responsibility on the club's part, nor was there a failure to report (fixing),'' Napoli lawyer Mattia Grassani said, noting that Gianello was Napoli's third keeper in 2009-10 and never played. ''It's an unfair sentence.''
Grassani added that Napoli could sue for damages once the appeals process ends.
Also on Tuesday, third-division Portogruaro was penalized two points for fixing a May 2011 match with Crotone, while Crotone was cleared of wrongdoing.
Napoli becomes the fifth Serie A club docked points this season for fixing - although the first to be penalized in midseason. Siena was docked six points, Atalanta two, and Sampdoria and Torino one each.
Juventus coach Antonio Conte returned this month from his four-month ban for failing to report fixing when he managed Siena two seasons ago.
The federation's justice system provides two levels of sentences: The disciplinary committee's initial verdict and an appeal. Sentences can then be appealed to a national sports arbitration court, which has the final word.
At least 50 people have been arrested in Italy for match-fixing since the middle of last year, with scores more under investigation by prosecutors in Cremona, Bari and Naples.
ROME (AP) -- Napoli was penalized two points in the Serie A standings Tuesday for match-fixing after its former goalkeeper confessed to arranging the result of a game three seasons ago.
The sentence by the Italian soccer federation's disciplinary committee dropped the southern club from a tie for third place into fifth position, 10 points behind league leader Juventus.
The penalty put a severe dent in Napoli's aim of winning the Serie A for the first time since Diego Maradona led the team to titles in 1987 and 1990.
Also, current Napoli captain Paolo Cannavaro and defender Gianluca Grava each were banned for six months for failing to report the fix.
Cannavaro is the younger brother of former Italy captain Fabio Cannavaro.
Napoli was also fined (euro) 70,000 ($92,000).
Both players, along with Napoli, deny any wrongdoing.
The keeper, Matteo Gianello, confessed to prosecutors that he attempted to fix the match between Sampdoria and Napoli on May 16, 2010.
Sampdoria won 1-0 on a goal in the 51st minute from current AC Milan player Giampaolo Pazzini. It was the final round of the season and the victory secured Sampdoria fourth place and a spot in Champions League qualifying.
Gianello was banned for three years and three months.
Appeals are expected.
Napoli issued a statement on its website saying that it does not agree with levying point penalties during the season.
''Each decision should be made before a season starts or at the end of a season,'' the club said. ''Plenty of time has passed since the 2009-10 season to evaluate and decide.''
Napoli added that it is ''confident that in the next two levels of justice real justice can be applied.''
''There's no responsibility on the club's part, nor was there a failure to report (fixing),'' Napoli lawyer Mattia Grassani said, noting that Gianello was Napoli's third keeper in 2009-10 and never played. ''It's an unfair sentence.''
Grassani added that Napoli could sue for damages once the appeals process ends.
Also on Tuesday, third-division Portogruaro was penalized two points for fixing a May 2011 match with Crotone, while Crotone was cleared of wrongdoing.
Napoli becomes the fifth Serie A club docked points this season for fixing - although the first to be penalized in midseason. Siena was docked six points, Atalanta two, and Sampdoria and Torino one each.
Juventus coach Antonio Conte returned this month from his four-month ban for failing to report fixing when he managed Siena two seasons ago.
The federation's justice system provides two levels of sentences: The disciplinary committee's initial verdict and an appeal. Sentences can then be appealed to a national sports arbitration court, which has the final word.
At least 50 people have been arrested in Italy for match-fixing since the middle of last year, with scores more under investigation by prosecutors in Cremona, Bari and Naples.
Link: http://sports.yahoo.com/news/napoli-penali...37043--sow.html
Excellent stuff.
Some people never learn. Shameful.
QUOTE (Fillipo Simone @ Dec 18 2012, 07:30 PM)
Some people never learn. Shameful.
Eh, it's Italy. Stuff like this is considered normal nowadays.
QUOTE (X-Offender @ Dec 18 2012, 07:52 PM)
Eh, it's Italy. Stuff like this is considered normal nowadays.
Nowadays?
QUOTE (Fillipo Simone @ Dec 18 2012, 07:54 PM)
Nowadays?
Nowadays as in the period after Calciopoli. I'm talking about football related stuff, although messy things have happened in the past as well, which we're all too familiar with.
Yep. It's a case of history in the repeating loop.
QUOTE (X-Offender @ Dec 18 2012, 05:52 PM)
Eh, it's Italy. Stuff like this is considered normal nowadays.
I think this stuff happens everywhere. But Italians are dramatic people. I think they revel in exposing each other
I don't think you're far wrong there.
Bologna beat Napoli again at the San Paolo for the Coppa Italia. 
QUOTE (X-Offender @ Dec 20 2012, 03:08 AM)
Bologna beat Napoli again at the San Paolo for the Coppa Italia.
haha thats hilarious go Bologna!
Looks like Napoli are on a slump. We absolutely need to take advantage of this. If we beat Roma I'll shut up about Allegri for an entire week!
If we beat Roma I'll remove my anti-Allegri sig. Promise.
QUOTE (X-Offender @ Dec 20 2012, 02:09 AM)
If we beat Roma I'll remove my anti-Allegri sig. Promise.
Really? That's radical!
QUOTE (Fillipo Simone @ Dec 20 2012, 02:20 AM)
Really? That's radical!
It's the Christmas spirit.
QUOTE (han2503 @ Dec 20 2012, 12:47 AM)
Looks like Napoli are on a slump. We absolutely need to take advantage of this. If we beat Roma I'll shut up about Allegri for an entire week!
Ban if he doesn't stick to this!
QUOTE (kurtsimonw @ Dec 20 2012, 03:28 AM)
Ban if he doesn't stick to this!
I'll tell the mods to ban me if we win and I complain about him for the next week
I'll probably have to stay away from the forum altogether, but that's beside the point
Juve 1 down in Cagliari.
Astori (already on a yellow) drags Quagliarella in the box, should've been a pen. Probably more of a pen that the one Cagliari got, so no Juve-conspiracy today.
Astori (already on a yellow) drags Quagliarella in the box, should've been a pen. Probably more of a pen that the one Cagliari got, so no Juve-conspiracy today.
Didn't think that was a penalty.
Commentators just said this is being played at Parma, any reason?
QUOTE (kurtsimonw @ Dec 21 2012, 11:32 PM)
Commentators just said this is being played at Parma, any reason?
Accessibility problems with Is Arenas.
Juve disallowed goal, minute later Astori sent off. There was always going to be a red card at some point, Cagliari fouling way too much.
EDIT: Asamoah's header didn't even go in! he was 1 yard out and put it wide and it hit the back of the net.
EDIT: Asamoah's header didn't even go in!
he was 1 yard out and put it wide and it hit the back of the net.
Vidal misses penalty.
Vidal misses a penalty. Justice, wasn't a pen.
Yup. Both penalties were invented, especially Juve's one.
Matri, 1-1. Was always going to score once he came on.
QUOTE (kurtsimonw @ Dec 22 2012, 12:18 AM)
Matri, 1-1. Was always going to score once he came on.
Goal dedicated to han.
What a save Agazzi!
WHAT A SAVE 
Agazzi has saved Cagliari a point there hopefully. What a save.
Can they hold on 6 more minutes of this?
Matri 2-1 Cagliari.
Thanks han.
Thanks han.
QUOTE (Jack Bauer @ Dec 22 2012, 01:33 AM)
Can they hold on 6 more minutes of this?
They can't.
QUOTE (kurtsimonw @ Dec 22 2012, 12:35 AM)
Matri 2-1 Cagliari.
Thanks han.
Thanks han.
QUOTE (kurtsimonw @ Dec 21 2012, 10:35 PM)
Matri 2-1 Cagliari.
Thanks han.
Thanks han.
He can score another 10 goals today and I still wouldn't want him anywhere near here. 2 glorius tap-ins for him after the other million tap-ins his team mates missed
The refereeing here is shameful
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