Donadoni Sacked

[-V-]

What do you make of that? Fah-G?

Will the Italian national side always play boring negative defensive football or will they ever change to an attacking style?

[fah-q]

Well done.

[-V-]

What? I didnt mean to be offensive Just asking

[fah-q]

Im glad Donadoni has gone to be honest, but i'll just console myself with:

[fah-q]

One of our FOUR incidentally.

[jonesie]

Im glad Donadoni has gone to be honest, but i'll just console myself with:

I'll see it and raise you a...



Yeah, that's right!

[Imy]

No surprise really.

Heard Lippi may take over again.

[fah-q]

I'll see it and raise you a...



Yeah, that's right!

[Red Chilli]

At least it will stop Pleat from calling him Donadini for a while

[Konstro]

One of our FOUR incidentally.

First one was won by Duce and referees so it doesn`t count

What is it with you Italians that you need to be in serious crisis to win things?

1982: betting scandal and Paolo Rossi who was suspended and shouldn`t really play in World Cup, same story in 2006. Even Milan last year when they beat us in Champions League.

Anyway from now on not only Italians will keep going with defensive style but England and Ireland will join. Can`t wait

[El Diego]

First one was won by Duce and referees so it doesn`t count

What is it with you Italians that you need to be in serious crisis to win things?

1982: betting scandal and Paolo Rossi who was suspended and shouldn`t really play in World Cup, same story in 2006. Even Milan last year when they beat us in Champions League.

Anyway from now on not only Italians will keep going with defensive style but England and Ireland will join. Can`t wait

I really really hate Italian football, the only players from todays generation I respect highly are Del Piero, Maldini, Cannavaro and Buffon. They won the last world cup by boring everyone to death.

[Sarb]

Good riddance. The team are also a bunch of OAP's who play negative boring football

[johnp]

First one was won by Duce and referees so it doesn`t count

What is it with you Italians that you need to be in serious crisis to win things?

1982: betting scandal and Paolo Rossi who was suspended and shouldn`t really play in World Cup, same story in 2006. Even Milan last year when they beat us in Champions League.

Anyway from now on not only Italians will keep going with defensive style but England and Ireland will join. Can`t wait

I can't either, we need our defence to be sorted

We've been pretty rubbish of late. What we need is a good run and to qualify for a tournament. TBH, if we do that by playing defensively, I won't care.

[fah-q]

First one was won by Duce and referees so it doesn`t count

What is it with you Italians that you need to be in serious crisis to win things?

1982: betting scandal and Paolo Rossi who was suspended and shouldn`t really play in World Cup, same story in 2006. Even Milan last year when they beat us in Champions League.

Anyway from now on not only Italians will keep going with defensive style but England and Ireland will join. Can`t wait

at least we win things, etc

[fah-q]

I really really hate Italian football, the only players from todays generation I respect highly are Del Piero, Maldini, Cannavaro and Buffon. They won the last world cup by boring everyone to death.

Good for you, I hope we go back to playing negative football just to piss you off.

And just to humour you on your point about "boring" our way to our FOURTH world cup. Thought you might like to see the tournament stats to back up your argument.

Thats: games/won/drawn/lost/scored/conced/points (if it was 3pts a win, etc)

1.Italy C 7 5 2 0 12- 2 17
2.France F 7 4 3 0 9- 3 15
3.Germany SF 7 5 1 1 14- 6 16
4.Portugal SF 7 4 1 2 7- 5 13
5.Brazil QF 5 4 0 1 10- 2 12
6.Argentina QF 5 3 2 0 11- 3 11
7.England QF 5 3 2 0 6- 2 11
8.Ukraine QF 5 2 1 2 5- 7 7
9.Spain 2R 4 3 0 1 9- 4 9
10.Switzerland 2R 4 2 2 0 4- 0 8
11.Netherlands 2R 4 2 1 1 3- 2 7
12.Ecuador 2R 4 2 0 2 5- 4 6
13.Ghana 2R 4 2 0 2 4- 6 6
14.Sweden 2R 4 1 2 1 3- 4 5
15.Mexico 2R 4 1 1 2 5- 5 4
16.Australia 2R 4 1 1 2 5- 6 4
17.South Korea 1R 3 1 1 1 3- 4 4
18.Paraguay 1R 3 1 0 2 2- 2 3
19.Côte d'Ivoire 1R 3 1 0 2 5- 6 3
20.Czech Republic 1R 3 1 0 2 3- 4 3
21.Poland 1R 3 1 0 2 2- 4 3
22.Croatia 1R 3 0 2 1 2- 3 2
23.Angola 1R 3 0 2 1 1- 2 2
24.Tunisia 1R 3 0 1 2 3- 6 1
25.Iran 1R 3 0 1 2 2- 6 1
United States 1R 3 0 1 2 2- 6 1
27.Trinidad & Tob. 1R 3 0 1 2 0- 4 1
28.Japan 1R 3 0 1 2 2- 7 1
Saudi Arabia 1R 3 0 1 2 2- 7 1
30.Togo 1R 3 0 0 3 1- 6 0
31.Costa Rica 1R 3 0 0 3 3- 9 0
32.Serbia & Mont. 1R 3 0 0 3 2-10 0

Yes you are right its clearly obvious we "bored" our way to it, isn't it?

Still it's not like you advocate cheating your way to a world cup instead is it?