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I'm sure it's about time for Venezia to go bankrupt again. Have they started building their new stadium yet?

Had a decent Football Manager career with Tritium a few years back. I think they had an affiliation with Atalanta at one point.ย Hope to see them back in Serie C before too long.

After Celano announcing that they'd been promoted a couple of weeks ago, it turns out they hadn't quite yet. They had to play a two-legged affair against New Club Villa Mattoni. They won 6-5 on penalties yesterday to definitely seal promotion back to Promozione. They did it the hard way after bottling a 2-0 lead against 9 men and conceding the equaliser in the 96th minute to make it 4-4 on aggregate.

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10 minutes ago, Allan Jacobsen said:

I'm sure it's about time for Venezia to go bankrupt again. Have they started building their new stadium yet?

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I'm pretty sure they are still being bankrolled by that New Yorker,ย 

Elsewhere, looks as though Napoli are leading the race for James Rodriguez.ย  Could be a great signing for them.

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20 hours ago, Herman Hessian said:

disappointed to note the defeat of the splendidly named Edmondo Brian (f**k you, Tritium); from Precenicco a few mile south west of Udine - been looking for a team to follow in the lower reaches of the Italian game - they'll do nicely...

appaz, the club are named after the grandson of the original owner/president - Luigi Bignami - who was one of some 130 Italian sailors lost withย the sinking of the destroyer Artiglieri near Sicily on 12 October 1940 after an engagement with two English and Australian cruisers - part ofย  the wider Battle of Cape Passero

puts this stupid game of ours in to a bit of perspective; an albeit fairly cursory search doesn't reveal much more about Brian's story, other than the fact that he was posthumously awarded a 'silver medal of honour'; several of the crew refused to abandon the ship before it was finally destroyed, as there were a number of injured and dying sailors still on board who needed looking after - I can only imagine that he was one of those who stayed...ย 

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L'Artigliere on her first day of service in 1938

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the coup de gras - Artiglieri explodes under fire from HMS York (photo from HMAS Vampire)

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survivors are rescued by HMAS Vampire

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the wreck - discovered in 2017 - laying nearlyย 12,000 feet down in the Mediterranean - note the identifying letters AR (as per the first picture)

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2 hours ago, highlandcowden said:

any of you in the know types on here have any idea when the serie A fixtures are released?i suspect this is probably a "how longs a piece of string" question

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On โ€Ž06โ€Ž/โ€Ž06โ€Ž/โ€Ž2019 at 08:43, LondonHMFC said:

Last year they released the dates on the 27th July, with the first Serie A game taking place on 18th August.ย 

No confirmation on this year, but it will be much the same.ย 

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oooft - perennial, recurring Genoese failureย Ivan Juriฤ‡ is appointed as the new full-time Hellas Verona coach; Aglietti - who somehow blagged his way through the play-offs on a wave of just about doing enough - was never going to get the gig having proved himself time and time again to never really have what it takesย to hold down a job in Serie B, let alone at a higher level; that said, Juriฤ‡ is young, has a finger on the pulse of Balkan football and - well - that's about it

if Hellas are not bottom at Christmas, he'll be sacked after a dismal home defeat at the hands of whoever is in last place - if he's not gone by late autumn having been dumped out of the Coppa Italia by the lowest-placed team left in the competition at that stage; he has previous of catastrophic defeats by shite teams with nothing other than one promotion (with Crotone) to balance the books

maybe, just maybe he can fabricate a season of unlikely survival based on a centre-back pairing of two as yet unheard-of centre-backs who go on to eclipse Nemaja Vidic in the roll of clearly psychotic but unfeasibly effective defensive genii, but I somehow doubt it

oh dear....

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here's one to look forward to next season - the renewal of a rarely contested 'derby di sicilia' as Trapani have just beaten Piacenza in the decisive leg of the last Serie C playoff to earn promotion - fairly cool ground, Trapani...

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The San Siro is still a tremendous stadium. OK it doesn't have the corporate facilities that some have (although the suites inside the stands are pretty swish) and is probably too big, but it's iconic and when it's pretty full it can still generate a fantastic atmosphere. It'll be a sad day when it comes down.

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Footy Accumulatorsโ€@FootyAccums

The Mayor of Milan Giuseppe Sala, has publicly warned AC & Inter that the council owns San Siro and intends to keep it open until 2026, "end of story." Hmmm

Gid lad. Now pump money in to upgrade it please.ย 

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Absolute clusterfuck at Palermo where it appears that they have been defrauded byย dodgy Bulgarian insurance brokers. They've also either registered for Serie B with one minute to spare or didn'tย register in time.

Long story short, they need to prove that they're financially stable or else it's Serie D for them next season.

Foggia are also unlikely to be allowed to play in Serie C following relegation from Serie B last season.

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19 hours ago, Allan Jacobsen said:

Absolute clusterfuck at Palermo where it appears that they have been defrauded byย dodgy Bulgarian insurance brokers. They've also either registered for Serie B with one minute to spare or didn'tย register in time.

Long story short, they need to prove that they're financially stable or else it's Serie D for them next season.

Foggia are also unlikely to be allowed to play in Serie C following relegation from Serie B last season.

Yet more ridiculous mismanagement by an Italian club, what a shambles.

At least Hamilton Accies fans can rest assured knowing they weren't defrauded that badly after all

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6 hours ago, booj1893 said:

AC Milan banned from European competition for breaching financial fair play just on sky sports news now

Been great fun to watch. Appealed it last year promising "financies would improve" and won the appeal. Spunked a fucking fortune to get into the CL to cover their arse over FFP, and failed to make the CL, so have no choice but to accept the ban this year.

3 hours ago, senorsoupe said:

Italian football is being run with the same fiscal responsibility that Scottish Football was 10-15 years ago

Italian football is just Rangers.ย 

Big in the 90s but shite now, and has resorted to spunking an absolute fortune on glitter to poor over themselves to try and look less like shite.

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