Time flies-EDIT-WTF Manninger

By: Matthew | November 20th, 2008

Sorry for the lack of posts peoples.

The “big” stories so far have been.

1) Buffon + apples makes for a good time

2) Manchester City’s # 1 Joe Hart will have to watch out because Buffon is on his way to blah blah blah blah. There have been a lot of Joe Hart headlines and they’ve been fun to read. “I’m not worried, people think now that we have all this money we’re going to buy the world. It doesn’t work like that.”

3) Buffon almost went to Milan. We kind of knew about this already but I guess he just set it straight.

4) Buffon dealt with depression about 5 years ago. Seriously. Read here. My take on it? “Doc, i’m just too good, football has become boring”

If that last one got you a little down you can roll on over to the Juve offside and watch ADP and Buffon get covered in paint.

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What November 22 means to me. (Not Buffon related)

-Juventus vs Inter - What I feel to be one of the most anticipated matches of Serie A so far. This is going to be epic. We are on a 7 win streak and i’d love to make it 8.

-The day I start my new job. There’s a good chance I will miss this game but there will be many computers around me. I can only imagine how distracted I will be though.

-It’s my Birthday. I would love to just lounge at home in my sponge bob boxers, beer(s) in hand, and watch this game but due to umm life, that can’t happen.
Although!! I’ve been a pretty good guy this year, you know? I’m assuming my good karma will somehow make everything right this one day. Juve will win 8-0, Inter will be relegated that same day for being, well, for being inter and I will bump into that Italian show girl from the video here in the streets of Toronto, Canada and we’ll end up back at my place in a sweaty, tangled, mess of lust.

yup. Good karma.

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Well, we lost 1-0, Inter remained in Serie A and I didn’t even run into that show girl. My good karma pool was not emptied on the 22nd anniversary of my glorious birth which sucks but it will just have to keep collecting for a bigger match.

I would like to move on and look towards Sunday but I’m still upset at Manninger for his poor poor poor reaction to the goal. 2 things really stand out that bother me to no end although one of those things is in direct relation to the other so maybe it’s 1 thing with a footnote.

Before the ball even crossed the line, Manninger gave up. He saw an inter shirt to his right and instead of trying to make a stop he stood there and threw his head in disgust. The other thing is that the ball was remarkably close to him. Even if he couldn’t have made the save the fact remains that the ball rolled by 2 feet to his right and he stood there, not a real movement of any kind other than yelling.
I remember him saying he wanted to give Gigi a run for this money when he first arrived and I thought, “Fuck yeah, make him earn that #1 spot.” but now myself and, i’m sure, hundreds of thousands fellow supporters are wishing for the speedy but full recovery of Buffon.

Maybe some of you will say i’m being too harsh but as a keeper myself, again, obviously not at the same skill level, it really angers me. This was a huge game and Manninger dropped the ball. (hah)