Montenegrin striker hoping for underwear modelling contract

Roma beat Cagliari 3-2 yesterday, and nobody was happier* than Mirko Vucinic, who celebrated scoring the winner by removing his shirt (to reveal another Roma shirt) and his shorts (to reveal some of his best tighty-whities).

*Judging by the commentator’s orgasmic groans, perhaps Vucinic was the second happiest person at the Stadio Olimpico.

[The Offside]

Frenchmen will do anything to reach last sixteen

Knowing that a slip-up at Stamford Bridge could see them in the final sixteen of the Champions League, Bordeaux pulled out all the stops in Rome last night. Unfortunately, they lost 2-0, and defender Marc Planus didn’t even get Jeremy Menez’s phone number after this moment of intimacy.

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When Italians shave their chests, they get it done in public, and usually by a professional footballer
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Sorry Jose, looks like it’s the other San Siro team’s turn

Predicting the outcome of Serie A presents one of life’s more difficult challenges: the success/failure of teams must always factor in the degree of cheating/bribery/corruption in which they will partake. Though the league table may well be turned on its head come June because a player/manager/official/entire team has tried to fix matches, here’s what will happen…probably.

» Inter Milan secured their third successive Serie A title last season. Should they triumph this season, they will become the first team since Torino FC in 1945-49 to win the Italian league four years in a row.

» AC Milan have now gone four years without securing the Serie A title. They have not experienced a winless run of five or more seasons since before 1988.

» Chievo finished seventh in the pre-corruption standings in 2005/06 and finished 18th the following season. Empoli ended the 2006/07 season in seventh and were also relegated in 18th place the very next campaign. Udinese finished seventh last season - could they fall through the trapdoor this year?

» AS Roma have finished second in Serie A