

Italian tourism
Rotten Cabbage
By: Ben |The reality is; Sampdoria are currently a hot skillet, the journalists will continue to paint heavy comparisons to the scudetto winning flag pole of 1991, the current team’s habits of group dinners are reminiscent of the unity shown by the mythic Samp, and strangely enough on the 9th day of play in 1990 Sampdoria [...]
Giving Tree
By: Ben |It doesn’t take a thinker, or a progressive mind or even an education to shine on the sad truths of the late Shel Silverstein’s “The Giving Tree.” As a child it didn’t do for me as say, “The Little Prince” does to the malleable mind; Shel’s greatest perversion beyond Playboy illustrations was maturity or [...]
Genova and God have mercy.
By: Ben |Free of the burden of European competition, teams such as the venerable Bologna are free of mid-week fixtures and in turn the credibility garnered from inclusion in such tournaments. Well let’s put all that aside and focus on the task at hand, Sampdoria.
It’s quite rare such occasions as this, where I can’t muster any [...]
DOWN YOU GO LAZIO!! DOWN YOU GO!! Please.
By: Ben |If there is anything holy in this life, if there is any strength in desperation, if there is a God above to gather the echoes of aggravated discontentment and the sound of a wet tongue clenched against irritated gums; if there is such a deity to be prompted into righteous action, he/she should practice the [...]
Paolo Rossi
By: Ben |If it weren’t for the ineptitude of the Italian representative of tourism abroad, last night’s presentation of Paolo Rossi’s Tuscan villa: Poggio Cennina, would have been a positive turn. In fact if he had let burst a shot of flatulence in the microphone, it would have been far more inspiring than his uncoordinated exploits [...]






