Old Lady Post: Effin' Pinks

 Palermo 2:1  Juventus

Oh.  My.  GOD!  Let's just save everyone the inconvenience of travel and the risk of injury and fucking forfeit the Palermo matches, hmm?  Yes, there

were a lot of bad calls, including two missed penalties, but CRIPES! what about all the blown chances?

I dunno man.  Is it me?  Am I cursing the squad by

wearing my Juve scarf whenever they play?  Has my bad attitude and general aura of gloom and pessimism transferred to the boys?  Does my overarching self-absorption

exhaust them to the point where they have no energy for football?  Whaiiiiiiiiiiiii?  WHY?  WHYWHYWHYWHY?  *pulls out hair*

pagelle

See?


Gigi knows.  Football is suffering.


All the rest of the Gigi shots are photos of fail.



Crap right back Gryga failing to prevent Special Agent Short

Stuff.



Have you seen Miccoli with his

shirt off?  He's a little pudgy.  &hearts  Some of these guys who look pudgy (JC, Rino) really aren't--at ALL-but Miccoli has a little something there.

 I bet he loves his rigatoni.  'S all good.  It certainly doesn't affect either his performance or his cuteness.



Gigi is not actually spiking Gryga in the face, despite what

you might think from this camera angle.


Yeah, so there was also another goal.



I could show more, but I think one look at Migliaccio's face

is plenty for all of us.  (Sorry pink friends.)



Gio looks a little too world-weary and not nearly pissed off enough.



*sigh*

You want to see some Gryga?



I love him, but he's terrible.   For a

while he looked less terrible, but now I realize that was only because Motta is worse.  :(



Look at him, wanting to help but not capable of

helping.  *sigh*  Also?  Gio fails at underlayers.



Oh poo.  That's Migliaccio and that's his stupid goal.

 Please let me have something else of Gio.



OK then.  T-rex arms.  For a while at the end, it looked like Gio was playing left back and Gryga moved to the center.  Gio did not look very comfortable

that high up the pitch.

The new CB started next to Gio, since Leo made himself unavailable with a stupid red card.



Look!  Barzagli's back!


Yeah.

 That was far too lame to cheer me up.



Oh God.  All my other Barzagli's either go at the end with Claudio, or they have The Incident in them.



That there would be Bovo committing a handball in the box.

  It was adjudged to be "incidental" and no penalty was awarded.   Yeah.  Look at those two photos in sequence.  Incidental my ass.

 He reached out to get that ball with his arm.

But wait--there's more!



No call!  Who is to blame?



Yeah.  Referee of the Year Morganti.  I've always

disliked him, but now he is an enemy of Dirtbunny.


So you know,  just because Morganti didn't see it properly doesn't mean no one saw it properly.



Claudio saw it clearly enough

to earn a yellow while attempting to persuade Mr. Morganti to change his mind.



Hell. even Moratti saw it.  (Just don't read the first part of the quote.)  So did l'Associazione Italiana Arbitri.  (Warning: link directs to page containing photo of RoRo in shorts, tanned, and

running.)    Morganti  is suspended "resting" for at least the new two

matches and will likely not be darkening Juve's door again this season,



Lalalalalala.  Sometimes you know things and you don't

mind if other people know you know things, but you don't want to actually say them out loud.  I know things about Gio.


So anyway, that could have been two

penalty kicks right there which, if converted, would have won the match.

Consider....



and....


Those are two missed sitters that could have won the

match.  It's not the ref's fault.  Don't quote me.



Dogfish time.






Oh yeah.  One more

starter across the back:



"FABIO!  FABIO! FABIO! FABIO! FABIO! FABIO! FABIO!"



Whatever Grosso was doing out there, he wasn't helping much,

and he wasn't making Il Mister happy.

Eventually, LDN got tired of it and pulled him in favor of Brazzo.  Brazzo went in as right back and Gryga shifted over to

left back and then Gio was left back for a while and, fuck it--it was all chaos.


Hi, Brazzo.


LDN started his classic

center-mid pair.



Melo, and......



"AQUILANI!  AQUILANI!  AQUILANI!  AQUILANI!  AQUILANI!"





Albertino went off for Momo in the 66th.  LDN is taking a

lot of guff over that decision.



It

amuses me that Momo gets so much attention from the photographers.



And, of course, over on the right....



"MILOS! MILOS! MILOS!

MILOS! MILOS! MILOS! MILOS! MILOS! MILOS! MILOS! MILOS! MILOS! MILOS! MILOS! MILOS! MILOS! MILOS! MILOS! MILOS! MILOS! MILOS! MILOS! MILOS! MILOS! MILOS! MILOS! MILOS!

MILOS! MILOS! MILOS! MILOS! MILOS! MILOS! MILOS! MILOS! MILOS! MILOS! MILOS! MILOS! MILOS!"



Milos was a lot brighter and shinier than in the last

few matches, but he couldn't finish his shots.  And he ignored Il Mister.


Up top, Matri made his debut.



I guess he's got his smug, self-regarding face when he

scores, and his other face when he doesn't.  He definitely added to the attack, just not goals.   LDN pulled him in the 66th for Martinez, who had an excellent shot

but Sirigu saved it.


Alessa The Giant got yet another start.



He played an uncharacteristically deep position on the pitch,

probably because he was too damn tired to attack and track back.



Yay!  Junk!



When he wrinkles his forehead, his eyebrows go all

squiggly.   unf

Dirtbunny's MOTM is none other than Claudio Marchisio.



He was everywhere.



He played the entire length and width of the pitch.

 He probably did more defending in the back corner than any of the various right backs did.




In addition to being all sorts of awesome, he got a

goal.  Nothing fancy like last match.  Just a nice little short-range shot threaded oh-so-precisely through a whole mess of pink people.



The celebrations were a tad subdued.



Really Gio?  A manly slap of palms and

that's it?  Fail.  Faily fail fail.



&hearts



And now,

the news.  Loooca has recovered sufficiently to return to the line-up this weekend.  Moreover, when van Gaal dropped trou to show everyone his nuts and prove how

manly he was (ew)  Loooca didn't see

anything.  Sure, it would be better if it was absolutely clear that he didn't see because he didn't look, but at least van Gaal's balls are not something Loooca has to

try to unsee.

Alessa is in contract negotiations.  There were scary reports about a pay-as-you-play deal, mostly from Goal. com, but they are always wrong

and they seemed to have backed down.

Call-ups for Saturday's match against the Sardines:

1 Buffon
2 Motta
3 Chiellini
4 Felipe Melo
5

Sissoko
6 Grosso
7 Salihamidzic
8 Marchisio
10 Del Piero
13 Manninger
14 Aquilani
15 Barzagli
19 Bonucci
20 Toni
21 Grygera
25 Martinez
27 Krasic
30 Storari
32 Matri
43 Sorensen

But not Morganti.