Juve mutterings (back from the brink)
17 December 2021
I have been out of sorts of late, due to an unexpected, certainly unwelcome, yet ultimately unavoidable motorcycle accident involving a three vehicle pile up in my intended direction of travel. Which has led to…a rather testing time all round. Throughout which however, supine demanded on a hospital bed, I kept track of Juve. Even […]
Open thread…Juve mutterings.
13 November 2021
First on the agenda must be Dejan Kulusevski. Who is rumoured to be on his way out, with none other than our old friend Paratici apparently eager to try pluck him from Turin and offer him a chance to shine in London. Arsenal also are in the mix, so say the usual suspects. This talk […]
Arthur gunned down…replacement needed???
21 July 2021
Rumours abound of our brazillian midfielder Arthur, many of them ugly, and to my mind, unwarranted. Whether we were expecting him to return somehow transformed into a world class component of our new Max era or simply hoped he might find his rhythm…we now have to accept that due to the recent surgery, the player […]
Juventus v FC Porto
8 March 2021
After all the chaos of COVID, playing to empty stadiums, injuries, Pirlo learning on the job, keeping us in the running (just) for all we seek to win, our whole season narrows down, becomes blinkered upon this fixture. We can talk of a transition. Of a change of the style aimed for. Of re-JUVE-nation. Of […]
Match Review: Juventus vs. Lazio
7 March 2021
A Saturday evening clash between a couple of Serie A giants did not fail to impress as reigning champions Juventus welcomed a tricky Lazio side to Juventus Stadium. Andrea Pirlo’s Juve may have arguably played their best match of the season on Saturday and what impressed me the most was the way they played as […]