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Totti played a great season until the accident. The coach builded the team around him and Pirlo. We are still waiting for the 'real' Totti. After the accident he needs to play in order to reach his top form. The guy is growing since the first match. Tough I agree with you: Roberto Baggio was one of another class, for sure the most talented player he had in the last 40 years.As the supporters used to hail: 'Non è un miraggio, è Roberto Baggio' (It's not a mirage, an illusion, it's Roberto Baggio)

If you remember the match with S.Corea, and we all remember it very well, the 'expulsion' of Italians was due to the referee, the infamous Jose Moreno. A referee expulsed by FIFA after that match. So don't count on Hiddink. If I were you I would count more on the characterial weakness of today's italian team and the poor form of Totti.

Yeah, great gol, it remember me the one scored by Marco Van Basten when Holland won the European Championship, but Mexico deserves honours of war, I would be proud if my team would loose such match. Que Viva Mexico!

Hey, a first UK pressing of London Calling IS London Calling. The remastered cd sounds crappy.

WHY? All of us have CD players, probably audio-tape players, sound-systems for our computers with downloaded music AND I-Pods. And yet, there are still collections of fine music, even rare music available only on vinyl. YOU do yourself a favour and get a nice turntable. ...and some of us have even reel-to-reel tape recorders, musical instruments, ecc.. I have a broken Telefunken U-47 just for fun

I am a rugby fan, and at the last Six Nation, Italy played some good matches, if only the rugby match would last only 40'... Ain't that the truth! I really think Italy are getting there with the rugby. I genuinely look forward to the day they stuff England! I mean that what lacks in our team is some self confidence, and some experience, we lost some matches because of stupid error of our defense line in the the second half. But I agree with you: we are growing.

I am a rugby fan, and at the last Six Nation, Italy played some good matches, if only the rugby match would last only 40'...

Actually we got a third place in 1990 and in 1994 lost the final against Brasil at penalties. A fourth place in European Championship 1988 and a second place in 2000. Not a bad score overall, but...not a victory. Talking about England the point is: if you had played as United Kingdom, maybe your palmares would be better.

Correct, but we didn't win any major competitions since 1982, and that is an extraordinary record too!

Freddie Hubbard BACKLASH Atlantic. I always love the tone of his trumpet, and his playing is never trivial nor cliche nor shallow, for what I know of him. It might be well bad records of Freddie, but not in my collection.

I've got some Red Records vinyl. All of them sounds great. The strange thing is that it's not easy to find them even in Italy.

You forgot that the coach gave a rest to 6 of the best players of Eucuador. Smart decision, their goal was to qualify and they did it. I bet the next match will be a totally different story.

...let's talk again when you'll see 5...0...awfully close have a great day anyway

Ike Quebec/John Hardee Mosaic set. I mean all the records

Exactly! And if you don't like the works of an artist BEFORE, you shouldn't buy his Mosaic set. Cuscuna isn't Harry Potter: he can't transform Chico Hamilton in Max Roach or Art Blakey. Though I understand the concern about the sound quality of some their remastering.

don't count on it !! as Larsson got rid of his rasta hairdo ages ago, Crouch will need to think up something else

A few thoughts about USA/Italy. De Rossi deserves anything FIFA will decide and the managers of italian team already said that they will not object. Jumping with opens arms is one of the bad habits we have in Italy, because our referees usually don't intervene, a bad habit of italian referees. The referee of the match strictly applyed the FIFA rules, and, as someone here pointed out, without exceptions towards USA and Italy. Considering Spain/Tunisia I thought that, after the italian player scored the second goal (to the wrong team!) and the referee did his job, we should have play like Spain, but we weren't able to do it. Overall the result is correct, and I think US played a good match, better then Italy. I putted ten euros on US victory in this game for luck. I lost the money and Italy played bad. Anyway I didn't commit suicide. Nobody did it. Italian supporters are very disillusioned after the italian football scandal. A last thought, everytimes we played a bad first tournment, the team growned during the championship, so I have no true forecast about us. The real WC starts now.

We all are hoping Francesco Totti reach his top form after a bad accident, in the midfield Pirlo is the other one.

You're right , in certain moments of my life there is nothing better then WC

HAND OF GOD IS AT IT AGAIN!!! Absolutely disgusting and unsportsman-like! I never thought I'd see the day when the "gentlemen of football" would stoop that low... What I am asking myself is: why doesn't Fifa allow the referee to see the video replay of the uncertain episodes, that is what normally happen in rugby? I watched to Six Nation Championship, and every uncertain episodes was video cheked out by the referee and his assistants. It seems pretty idiotic to have dozens of cameras focused on a football match and don't use them for it. The even most stupid thing is to use them, after the match, for punishing unsportman actions. The result is that a team who is damaged in a match is damaged anyway, but is in a sort of 'credit' limbo, until another 'referee's error' pay it. A ' pilatesque' behavoir of FIFA. Pretty stupid way to fire up polemics about 'favor' toward some team instead of others, You can squalify Crouch for the next match, but England is qualified. On one hand FIFA has a lot to gain in term of broadcasting royalties when the richest and most famous teams like Italy, Germany, etc, reach the next tournment: I mean wich would be the cost of 30" commercials during a final, or a semifinal, France vs Brasil compared to Honduras vs Tzchech Republic? Does sponsors would pay such sums for a WC where the biggest, and often richest audiences of Germany and England risk to turn off the TV after three matches? On the other hand football is a big business: a big part of it consists of sport's newspapers and broadcasting and a big part of it survive because of personal scandals, quarrels about a referee 'error's' and all this bullshits. A sort of neverending 'tabloiding' about football. So even the suspects are transformed in money.

Neil Young Zuma Reprise US pressing, one of those rock records that make me glad I have a TT

No, no, no - you simply are failing to understand. During the World Cup, EVERYONE is an expert. Too right! I worked for one year as video editor for a national broadcasting about sports, mainly fooball. I can assure you that most of the so called 'expert' are simply people unable to find a different and serious job. A part few former players and coach, most of the journalists (I am not talking about you Brownie ) don't know what they are talking about. Anyway in Italy we say that during the World Cup we get 56 millions national team coaches, children included.

I understand your POW, because it was exactly the same with analog and digital shooting. I worked, and still work as film editor for movies, commercials, documentaries, you named it., I owned a film company (and I lost a lot of money), and digital shooting and editing is an huge step forward from every point of view. For example yesterday I got the speaker's voice as numbered tracks on a cd instead a lousy Scotch tape, I putted the cd in my Avid editing station and in half an hour I did the job. Some of this vinyl revival may have to do with naive desire to get back to 'good old days' when we were younger, without white hair, or with hair, and our trouser's size was the same of our teenagers sons. BUT, when I see good film copy of ' The Searchers' in a theater, I can see the difference with every DVD copy on every HT money could get. Yes, you can see some hairs on the copy, drops, but... When I listen to a original good mastered vinyl, compared to the today's habits to pump up frequencies in remastered cds, I agree with Wolff. Anyway I have a DVD copy of 'Rio Bravo', I can make a copy for you.

...but this was my first motorbike

Should I go on?