Old Lady Report: Lyon Friendly and URGENT HAIR NEWS

ORIGINALLY POSTED ON JULY 25, 2010




Remember Olympique Lyonnais?  A Champions League semifinalist, home squad of suspended French Number One Hugo Lloris, and the club that gave us Fabio Grosso (Thanks.   Thanks a lot.)?  Juventus played OL in Cosenza in Regione Calabria (ancestral homeland of Dirtbunnies) this weekend and, surprisingly, won the match 2-1.  Don't get excited.  It's only the preseason and Juventini should have learned from last year that preseason results and form are meaningless at best and a cruel visit to Oppositeland at worst, but it is still satisfying to register a victory.

Here's your Starting XI  your Starting X plus some pitch-invading Car Salesman:

Smile, Lanza!  You're touching a legend!

Capitano started:

If I were an Inter fan, which I am not, this glimpse of the Lyon jersey would make me feel a little better about the Inter kits.  At least I'd know that there would be football-loving company for me in the seizure ward.


Gio was also there:

He didn't score.  : (   But then, just because he performed about as well in the box as the zebra strikers last season, doesn't mean he's expected to do  that every year.

Also didn't score.

Ditto, but he's still got the hair.  That Adam's apple doesn't look....normal to me.  hmmmmm




So who did score? Well, Lyon comitted a penalty, and you can probably guess who converted it:

And lo there was the usual rejoicing:

Wait a minute.  Who the hey is #30?  That looks like the back of Gio's head to me, but Gio is #3 and #30 still belongs to Tiago Mendes, who could still possibly be staying with Atletico Madrid (Don't count on it.  Bunny is not that lucky.)  Gio's not that short compared to Marcolino, but maybe Marcolino is jumping.  Ize all confused *goes off to take a Geritol*


ADP would like to reassure all the tifosi that his groin is just fine......

....but his efforts would be a lot more persuasive without the compression shorts.  

Quit talking about my groin.  I'm a nice boy and that sort of talk makes me feel all ooky inside.

Your other goal-scorer, back from his post-World Cup vacation:

Yeah, yeah.  Nice job.  Don't get too smug just yet.

Are we still begrudgingly optimistic about Pepe, or are we back to wondering what all the coaches see in his mediocre ass?


And now for the important part of the spam.  Look who's been to the beauty parlor!  

And look who else!!!!

eep!  He's got Amauri ears! 

Although Juventus has not yet officially unloaded Certified Douchebag Jonathan Zebina, it is rumored that they are considering a replacement douchebag, Emmanuel Adebayor.  OK, so he's very very very pretteh, and he had that amazing bicycle-kick away goal in the first leg of the Champions League quarterfinal against Villareal in 2008-09, but is this really someone Juve wants?




In more bad news, Gigi's back injury may keep him out until January.  I sincerely hope I'm wrong about that.




Coming up is a first leg At Least They're in the Europa League third round qualifying match in Dublin against Shamrock Rovers on Thursday.  Return leg in Modena on August 5.

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