Alpine Weekend Review

We follow the Tour and take a look at France, Switzerland and Italia today in action over the next week. Juve play out a draw and find themselves 3 points off Milan at the top, but with a game in hand on Wednesday so there's still hope. I just continue to be amazed they still haven't lost a game in Serie A yet. Simone Padoin, who joined from Atalanta in the January window, had a blistering game , must easily have been Juve's most fouled players (unless you count every niggling annoyance Vucinic went down for, what referees see in this guy to like so much I'll never understand). Marchisio was frustratingly invisible, and Pirlo had to rely on De Ceglie and Lichsteiner for passing outlets, which I suppose suited Padoin but not Giaccherini so that was a real shame. But Roma Lazio tonight, 2 points off Napoli (who have an easy game at Parma) and 7 points off Lazio and Udinese (who have a less easy game home to Atalanta), so time for Totti to go to the phone booth and put on his cape and red underwear (not coz I'm lonely...the game.)

Further up the Tour, since I know zilch about Ligue, except that PSG have a shit load of money they tried to prostitute Xavi with unsuccessfully, I'll focus on the midweek UCL. Marseille started a gleeful day of watching Ranieri inch closer and closer to the inevitable guillotine, with Valbuena and Azpilicueta (yes I had to google Marseille Right Back for that...) ripping Inter apart. Hope they dump Inter. Basel completed the gleeful day of watching a possible exit for my arch foes Bayern Munich, quite ironic that Shaqiri gets to sway his hips to Bayern bosses in the crowd after all the transfer speculation. Hope they dump Bayern. Lyon get a through pass as usual, but needed a struggling 1-0 against Nicosia, a game even I was too jobful to bother watching. Hope they get dumped by Nicosia.

Thus concludes Alpine weekend review, which obviously sounds a lot more erudite than the deserved post title "A brief mention of 2 games in Serie A and 3 games in UCL. With associated Ranieri-decapitation imagery par for the course." Did I mention how the guillotine is kept at the top of the ski slope, and then his severed head bounces down the mountain picking up more and more snow becoming a devastating avalanche ball that falls on the entire Lazio team during the line up at the Olimpico (that means Caped and Red Undie-d Totti, mission-less, would be free...look out nearest TV reporter). Just saying, stranger things have been known to happen...like him getting another coaching job maybe......