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Juventus 3 Fiorentina 1

The one fixture that Fioretnina want to win is this one. It goes back to 1980 when the scudetto went to the last game. Juve were at Catanzaro, Fiorentina at Cagliari. Juve were awarded a penalty converted by Liam  Brady and Fiorentina refused one. Fast forward to the sale of Roberto Baggio from us [...]

December 14, 2015 // 0 Comments

A Visit to the Dripping Pan

In the never ending debate of attendance v tv watching I would like to add my ha’porth by saying that, aged 66, I still enjoy the feeling of visiting new stadium. Alan Tanner and I intend to visit the Allianz Arena and Bernabeu next year. Yesterday I went to the other extreme of the polarity [...]

December 13, 2015 // 0 Comments

Whitehawk soar

Alan Tanner was joshing me that we should rename the Rust the Conway Courier for the amount of posts I have had latterly published.  Well, it’s been a stellar weekend for Brighton footbsll and that is the right description as Whitehawk FC  wish to rename  thèmselves Brighton FC . That [...]

December 7, 2015 // 0 Comments

Swarm of Seagulls

Yesterday’s 3-2 victory over Charlton was one of the best games I have seen a Brighton side play. After 5 minutes when we were two down to an enterprising Charlton team that belied their relegation postion and had unearthed from park football a talent in 18 year old Ademola Lookman, the word [...]

December 6, 2015 // 0 Comments

Homage to Batistuta

A friend of mine in England sent me this link, which I am happy to share with you, on Fiorentina’s greatest player, Gabriel Batistuta – known as Batigiol. See here  for Rob Smyth’s piece on the website of  The Guardian – GABRIEL BATISTUTA To qualify as the greatest you [...]

December 5, 2015 // 0 Comments

Can Brighton do it … then what?

For the first time as the Seagulls sit atop the Championship I found myself wondering could Brighton get promoted automatically and what happens if we do? But first the match. Birmingham under Gary Rowett are in the top six and a stern test but one which Brighton passed and won  by our trademark [...]

November 29, 2015 // 0 Comments

Fiorentina file

Tonight Fiorentina play Basel in the Europa League in a key match. We lost our first home games to Basel and to Lech Posnan but between these won away at Belenenses. Another away win at Posnan gave us 6 points and every chance of 9 as our final game is home to Belenenses, the weakest team in the [...]

November 26, 2015 // 0 Comments

BT FOOTBALL COVERAGE

Last night I watched the latest round of the Champions League on BT Sport. I have never been that impressed by their presentation but having acquired the rights they have certainly invested heavily in presenters. When I first began watching tv football in the sixties there were only two channels, [...]

November 25, 2015 // 0 Comments

El Clasico

Yesterday I watched Barcelona thrash Real Madrid 4-0 in El Clasico. It’s interesting how these big club matches are hyped up. There is genuine dislike between the two cities going back to the Spanish Civil War and the oppression of General Franco who stifled Catalan culture, education and [...]

November 22, 2015 // 0 Comments

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