Posts Tagged inter
Frank Lampard Is Moving to Italy, Says France
The Telegraph is reporting that France Football is reporting that Frank Lampard has signed a four-year contract with Inter Milan. And they are. I have seen them reporting this. As proof, I can tell you that Lampard is apparently set to draw un salaire annuel de 7,3 ME, and also that the ancien coach des [...]
A Flavorless Mush I Call “Root Marm”
There’s a-doings a-transpiring in the world of football. Jose Mourinho is bound for Inter. Which means that Dider Drogba is about to transform into a fictional character briefly capable of existing in several places at once. Which means that Zlatan Ibrahimović is going to topple like an imaginary domino, landing on an imaginary city in [...]
The Tuesday Portrait: Zlatan Ibrahimović (2)
The taxonomy of football is a difficult and unrewarding science, but two families of attackers that I think we would all recognize are the shambling/slouching/mesmerizingly ill-fitting rogues and the barrel-chested/candid-thighed chargers. The first sort look deceivingly broken-down and loose-limbed, as though their bodies were assembled out of parts that didn’t quite match; away from [...]
The Tuesday Portrait: Zlatan Ibrahimović
People who say that soccer is boring and people who say that soccer is beautiful are usually talking about the same thing, which is that the game makes it hard to tell the difference between intention and accident. The game takes very graceful people and makes them clumsy; you’re an acrobat, it says, now [...]
