BLEACHERS BREW EST. MAY 2006

Someone asked me how my blog and newspaper column came to be titled "Bleachers Brew". It's like this, it's an amalgam of sorts of two things: The bleachers area in the stadium/arena where I used to sit when I would watch baseball, football, and basketball games and Miles Davis' great jazz album Bitches Brew. That's how it got culled together. I originally planned on calling it "The View from the Big Chair" that is a nod to Tears For Fear's second album, Songs from the Big Chair. So there.

Saturday, October 4, 2008

These guys are for real


It's been eight years since Lazio won the Scudetto and three years since the club was implicated in the Calciopoli (the match fixing scandal that resulted in the relegation of Juventus to Serie B of which they have yet to recover and the points deduction and ouster from the UEFA Cup by Lazio and the other clubs) and as this early, they're the surprise leaders of the Serie A.

Gaffer Delio Rossi has his side playing well despite all the previous distractions and taunts of stadium rival AS Roma. But much credit has to go to his twin strike force of Argentinean Mauro Zarate (six goals) and Macedonian Goran Pandev (four goals) that has helped them win four of their first five games. And this weekend, they look to chalk up a fifth victory at the expense of Lecce which is somewhere in the lower half of the standings (Cagliari is the worst so far).

We've posted about Zarate earlier as he totally slipped under the radar after Lazio got him on loan from Al-Sadd from Qatar and who had a stinit with Birmingham City (relegated from the English Premier Leagues this season). Andriy Shevchenko just bonked in his first goal of the season (much to the relief of Milan fans) while Intermilan's Adriano and Juventus' Alessandro Del Pierro have yet to find the back of the net.


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