Monezza

I finally made it down to my beloved Sorrento. First time this year! I think they all thought I had left the country! I went to visit a friend in Castellammare di Stabia and witnessed the rubbish problem first hand. They manage to keep Sorrento clean for the tourists no doubt but as soon as you hit Castellammareit is shocking. The rubbish is piled up everywhere as you can see from the photo. It is about time the government sorted it out.

I recently went to watch the film Gommora which is based on the book by Roberto Saviano. Saviano is now under police guard after writing this book om the Camorra (the Neapolitan mafia). I read the book so I made RB take me to watch the film. Half way through the film a guy I know from Sorrento is in it!!! I obviously screamed out oh my god I know him, much to the embarrassment of RB! Apparently they used alot of non-actors. The majority of the film is in Neapolitan dialect and subtitled in Italian. It is definitely worth seeing. It rather disturbing how bad life and the living conditions are some areas of Naples such as Scampia. Anyway, I bumped into the 'movie star' as he works on the door of one of the clubs in Sorrento and my drunk friend (that hasn't even seen the film) asked for his autograph!!!

Italy are into the Quarters of Euro 2008! Yip hee!!

Netherlands-Italia 3-0

What a terrible start! The worst ever start to a competition for the Azzurri. As you can imagine the press here are already after Donadoni and arguing that this would never have happened with Lippi on the bench. I'm inclined to agree. The Azzurri haven't exactly been convincing since Donadoni took over. I don't understand how he could possibly leave De Rossi on the bench. Who in their right mind would leave one of the worlds best players in centro campo on the bench and then to put Cassano on instead of Aquilani... boh! Non capisco piu niente!

At least France only drew 0-0 with Romania so our chances arent completely ruined.

On the Roma front I am really starting to worry about next season. So much for fighting for the Scudetto... at this rate we will be behind Milan, Inter, Fiorentina and Juve. We need to act on the market asap. Looks like we will get Vucinic, at a price, which is I'm not sure he is worth... Mancini should be on his way to Inter or Barca soon.

Being a Brit I need to comment on the weather! What's up with all this rain!!!! I may as well be back in London! This must be the worst spring and start to summer ever! I want to go to the beach!

Forza Azzurri!

Who will own Roma next season?

Soros or no Soros? One minute he is buying Roma the next it is being denied and in the meantime we are missing out on the calcio mercato. Milan, Juve, Fiorentina and Inter are all busy reinforcing their teams while we are doing nothing... This is really starting to worry me. By the time our ownership problems are resolved there wont be anyone left to buy. We don't see to be making any moves to see Manicni either. Rumours are that we wont even take up the chance to buy Vucinic..... I have a bad feeling for next season. Montella will come back from Samp and may play for us next year. At this point i hope someone does buy us. Its about time we were able to compete with the big 3 from the north. If the Sensi stay I fear we can only aim for 4th place next year as they don't have the money to compete. We have to sell in order to buy and that doesn't help... On top of this, when Ferrari leaves we don't get a penny as his contract has expired. The city of Rome deserves a big team and if new owners can do that then I'm all for it.