Posts Tagged ‘Italy’

The Capello Effect: Watching Them Watching Us

By Vanda Wilcox • Dec 21st, 2007 • Category: Media

Since it will take some time for the footballing effects of the appointment of Fabio Capello as England manager to become apparent, it is currently most significant as a media event. In Italy, the news has been greeted with almost as many column inches as in England (or perhaps that should be column centimetres, for [...]



The referee is a buffoon

By Vanda Wilcox • Dec 11th, 2007 • Category: World Football Culture

Abusing the referee seems to be a universal tenet of global football culture. In Italy, the daily newspapers grade them mercilessly and not even Pierluigi Collina can help his beleaguered brethren.
The word “wanker” doesn’t translate directly into Italian. Rather, Italians are likely to chant “buffone” at the ref when he makes a bad [...]



Catania – Palermo, Ten Months On

By Vanda Wilcox • Dec 4th, 2007 • Category: Uncategorized

Editor’s note: Most of you will have noticed that we often linked to Rome-based blogger Spangly Princess during the recent crisis in Italy. Well, she’ll now be writing regularly for Pitch Invasion, and today brings us an update on the Catania-Palermo rivalry, ten months on from the death of a policeman that marked the previous [...]



Photo Daily | December 1 | Italian Fans Celebrate at the Circus Maximus

By Tom Dunmore • Dec 1st, 2007 • Category: Photography

A day late, we conclude this week’s series on the 2006 World Cup by looking at fans celebrating at the Circus Maximus (Circo Massimo in Italian), Rome. Over 700,000 packed the site of the ancient Roman hippodrome the night Italy won the World Cup for the fourth time.
Photo credit: hidden_vice on Flickr, via the Pitch [...]



Gabriele Sandri’s Funeral

By Tom Dunmore • Nov 14th, 2007 • Category: Uncategorized

It seems that all I do is link to Spangly Princess, but that’s because her writing about the death of Lazio ultra Gabriele Sandri in Italy on Sunday and its aftermath surpasses anything I could do even if I lived in Italy as she does. Today she writes about attending Sandri’s funeral, and it’s a [...]



More on the Aftermath of Gabriele Sandri’s Death and the Riots in Italy

By Tom Dunmore • Nov 12th, 2007 • Category: Uncategorized

Unfortunately I don’t have the time (or the knowledge) to construct a thoughtful post on the aftermath of yesterday’s terrible events in Italy this morning. But I can again urge you to read the commentary from two people on the ground there: see ursus’ latest comment today on our post regarding what happened with the [...]



Lazio Fan, Gabriele Sandri from Rome, Shot Dead Today; Riots Break Out

By Tom Dunmore • Nov 11th, 2007 • Category: Hooliganism, News & Notes

[singlepic=18,260,195,right]Gabriele Sandri, a well-known DJ from Rome and a Lazio supporter, was shot dead by the police this morning at a gas station in Badia al Pino, Arezzo. This followed an incident in which a group of Lazio ultras had attacked Juventus fans in their cars, the latter appealing for help from passing police; the [...]



Photo Daily | October 30 | Sampdoria

By Thomas Dunmore • Oct 30th, 2007 • Category: Photography

Photo credit: lalice on Flickr, via the Pitch Invasion photo pool.



Photo Daily | October 18 | Napoli

By Thomas Dunmore • Oct 18th, 2007 • Category: Photography

Photo credit: giulia_rossa on Flickr, via the Pitch Invasion photo pool.