Thursday, September 16, 2004

"Up strides Inzaghi, the side's designated penalty taker, but di Canio already has the ball in his arms and no intention of letting it go. "It is mine. MINE!" he indicates to his hapless colleague. A frustrated Inzaghi looks over to the sidelines, where manager Caso is shouting at him to go and take the kick. "He won't let me" pouts the striker, pointing at Paolo (subtext: he can have me and we both know it). Di Canio duly slots the ball away, and he races towards the Sampdoria fans to celebrate. The rest of the team follow him bar Simone, who stands looking hurt in the centre-circle.As soon as di Canio had finished squabbling with the Sampdoria players post-goal, he raced up and grabbed Simone by the shirt, incensed by his lack of celebration. So furious was di Canio's expression that players from both teams raced to separate the two. "We had words, sure, but this penalty was just too important to me" explained Paolo later. "This kind of thing is healthy for the club." http://football.guardian.co.uk/continental/story/0,8018,1304263,00.html
*Smirk* I'm sure I'm not the only one who misses PDC.

Manwhile The Mercury made me laugh with the headline "The New Mendonca!" under a picture of Kevin Lisbie.
Turned out though he was actually talking about Jeffers, rather than himself.

2 comments:

Ralph said...

beautiful story.

Charby said...

I thought so too :-)