Chinese stream this time; the Romanians aren't interested when neither Chivu nor Mutu is playing. XD

Ah, and Toldo's in the grey kit I prayed I'd never see again. Wonderful. *Rolls eyes*

Mario's down; his head is bleeding buckets.

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I'm not kidding myself that anyone's watching this match except me. And I've got a Romanian stream! \o/

Stream opens to the sight of Amauri getting in a fight with Lucio. *Impressed* Talk about ultimate fighting.

9min: And Juve score. *Resigned* Oh, well, at least it's only Diego. Toldo, bizarrely, looks delighted about it. Toldo/Diego OTP!

13min: Mario's staying on the ground for a lot longer than usual... Oh, no, he seems OK now.

Who's the Juventino in the mask? Is it Chiellini yet again? Poor sod.

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This must be the first time in ages (or possibly ever) I've posted twice in one day, but: for you non-Inter fans, Chivu bashed heads with a Chievo player today and was stretchered off. (Pelissier, the Chievo guy, seems fine and played the rest of the match.) He seemed fine at the time and was still conscious, but unfortunately it seems to have gone a bit downhill since then. Mourinho, who has always been a bit excitable, claims that Christi has fractured his skull; meanwhile, Vic Becali (Chivu's evil agent) says it's only a haematoma. A totally insane man vs. a Romanian gangster... hmmmm, who to believe?

Anyway, Prosport are posting half-hourly updates of the situation, which is frankly making things worse rather than better because everything sounds infinitely more serious through the medium of Google Translate. "Doctors try to make the bone that was separated in place" is what I'm getting at the moment, which makes it sound as if there's a piece floating round in there somewhere while they try to harpoon it. Pompiliu Popescu, the brilliantly-named Romanian team medic, is evidently on the case and says that the damage was to the parietal bone, that Christi'll be fine as long as there's no swelling or haematoma, and that he's going to be out for at least a month. Finally, he points out that Petr Cech had a serious head injury and still plays, which gave me an image of Christi in a little bumpy hat thing.

My Chivu-love seems to have acquired many sympathisers in the last few weeks, so there seems a slight possibility that someone might want to massacre Pelissier in revenge. If so, you needn't bother: Lucio kicked him in the balls.

I have very graphic memories of being taught, at medical school, about the way the oesophagus works. Our physiology lecturer, Dr Hilary Harries, brought into the lecture hall a pint of beer, climbed onto the demonstration table, stood on his head, facing us, then drank the beer in one go, upside down.

I think I’d have paid good money to be lectured by this guy.

*Scratches head* Can anyone recommend a site where I can download Saturday's Sampdoria-Genoa match? I've been searching for ages but I've got nowhere.

Don't know what I'm doing wrong. I found a working torrent for Sunday's Poli-Gaz Metan match (we won 6-2!) in my first search result. Maybe Romanians just really like torrents?

Update: Match located! Hurrah!

The latest headline abomination, plus a few I’ve had hanging around for a while. (And a Dutch bulb. And a Polish headline. Just pretend they’re Romanian.)



OK, I can see why that would be a problem.

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Ooh, I'll just bet he is. Poor Christi, he must be exhausted.

( The accompanying photo just makes it worse )