Time for our newspaper roundup now and unsurprisingly the Gazetta is obsessed with what they are calling La Grande Corsa – or the great race – here as you can see, bizarrely printed in English in an Italian newspaper. They believe there are 11 teams in with a shout of winning Serie A. Leaders Roma hold a one point advantage over Bologna and a 9 point lead over city rivals Lazio, who are down in 11th. Anything is possible of course in this great league of ours. Holders Juventus are still favourites with the bookmakers whilst last years runners up Bologna are once again second, but their ageing squad is showing signs of creaking…
Creak as it might, we have a great chance of winning Serie A. Do it for Baggio. Do it for…The Micker. We might be struggling to find a goalscorer to hang our hats on but we are the league’s leading scorers, maybe we should just accept that Serie A is a harder league to score in. That said, we’ve seen what Rob has done with young Hubner on a Thursday, so there’s always room for improvement.
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