On Sunday the surprise of all the games were 2 of them, Firstly Inter was held to a 1-1 draw, and actually trailed 1-0  at home on a goal by Roalndo Bianchi in the 47th minute. But Inter being Inter they came back to tie on a goal by Nicolas Bordisso about 15 minutes later. It was only Burdisso's 4th goal in serie A in almost 5 seasons. But it was enough to give Inter the point they needed to keep a 6-point advantage over their cross-city rivals Ac Milan who went to the Olimpico in Rome and demolished Lazio by a 3-0 final on goals by Massimo Ambrosini, Alexandre Pato and the newly rejuvenated Ricardo Kaka. I guess not going to Manchester City has done wonders for Ricky and the fans of AC Milan throughout the world. As my co-blogger Hannah would say, Thank you Silvio Berlusconi. Juve's home loss to Cagliari on Saturday dropped them to 3rd place in the table. and Moved Cagliari even with Napoli for 7th place. Genoa solidified their Champions League position, with an 85th minute goal by Neapolitan born Mimmo Criscito Roma was held to a tie in Reggio Calabria after trailing 1-0 on a penalty converted by Corradi. but Pizzaro scored twice for Roma the second of which, he scored on a rebound of a save off his own penalty kick giving AS Roma a 2-1 lead which held until the 81st minute when Francesco Cozza scored to draw even at 2-2.in mid table Atalanta beat Catania 1-0 on a goal by Guarente and in the relegation zone Lecce took a big step towards safety by Beating Sienna 2-1 on goals by Tiribocchi and Castillo in Sienna. While Chievo held Sampdoria to a draw giving them 8 points in the last 4 matches.

Next weeks big match is Roma-Genoa, I'll be watching, hopefully so will you. Oh and don't forget Juve-Napoli in Coppa Italia on Gol-Tv on Wednesday.

After a contentious two years in control, headlined by two league titles and two disgraced coaches, as of this morning the Ramon Calderon era at Real Madrid is over. In a meeting in December, he was able to survive a vote of no-confidence at the Club Assembly on December 7th, but it has come out this week that he used "bused-in" ultra groups to intimidate members and used non-members to rig the vote in his favor. Now everyone is calling on the club to move forward and  call a general election to find his successor, and that's all well and good but the fact remains that regardless of the fact that he failed to meet his campaign promises of bringing Cesc Fabregas, Kaka' and Cristiano Ronaldo to the Bernabeu there are some embarrassing allegations coming from Madrid and it has shamed a club that just 8 months ago were celebrating a second consecutive La Liga title at the Cibeles.

Frankly, no one should have been surprised. There were signs even from the beginning. During the election there were reports that whole blocks of mailed-in votes were ignored. From then on he was constantly on the defensive. He hired an experienced coach in Capello who had already had a tempestuous reign a decade earlier in Madrid, gave him an inexperienced Sporting Director in Peja Mijatovic, and walked around with the wide-eyed look of a deer in headlights. When the transfer windows opened his response was usually, "We have tons to spend, let's have it on then!" and he was usually surprised why other clubs negotiated higher with Madrid than any other club. His transfers were haphazard, poorly thought-out, and often lacked coordination with the needs of the squad, the availability of players for all competitions, let alone for reasonable financial terms. Other clubs disrespected Real Madrid's leadership and never took them seriously.

Calderon was surprised that Capello, noted for his no-nonsense approach to club management and often dour tactics, brought a similar mentality to the capital and almost immediately wanted him gone calling for excitement to return to the Bernabeu. Capello, rather than taking the bait and leaving back to Italy, circled the wagons and won the League again for los blancos stopping only to flip a bird at club leadership. The fiasco of Bernt Schuster's hiring and firing, well I won't even get into that. Anyone who expected anything less of the German doesn't remember him as a player. There were financial problems despite a profit over the last two years and in the end he showed what an honorable President he had been for Madrid by stepping down, but only after trying to deflect the blame to two of his most trusted advisors.

Some would ask how Calderon's term would be remembered, I'd say think of his trip to New York last year when was detained for hours by the authorities who mistook him for a criminal. Right now there isn't much of a difference.

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