Forza Cagliari! Gratzie a lei.

[andy]

I know not one single one of you will give a stuff but tonight Cagliari Calcio returned to their rightful place in Serie A courtesy of a 3-0 win at Bari. Annoyed I could not arrange anything quick enough to be there but well chuffed in an alcoholic haze in my conservatory.

[YeltzDoc]

I've seen you in your Calgiari shirt enough times to know where you loyalties lie.
And I'm far too afraid of a horse's head on the pillow to do anything other than offer my congratulations!
(Sardinia, Sicily, it's all the same.)

[andy]

I've seen you in your Calgiari shirt enough times to know where you loyalties lie.
And I'm far too afraid of a horse's head on the pillow to do anything other than offer my congratulations!
(Sardinia, Sicily, it's all the same.)

Cheers mate.
Still a few areas where horse head/ pillow combinations may be an issue but nothing like those pesky Sicilians. Grrr.

[andy]

Cant believe I spelt 'grazie' with a 't' before anyone pulls me up! Must have had more than I thought.

[RobYeltz]

What is your link to Cagliari?

[andy]

What is your link to Cagliari?

Started as a holiday visit 20 odd years ago. Went to see them and kind of got hooked. Been back to see them in various parts of the country as well as Sardinia quite a few times since. Under Massimo Cellino's ownership (now wrecking Leeds) he hired and fired 30 odd managers in a little over 20 years and they seemed to lunge from one crisis to another (even at one point playing their 'home' games many hundreds of miles away in Udine) so I guess the instability over the years made them feel like our lot.

[welshyeltz]

Are you sure Mason wasn't involved there.
At least now you can wear your jacket with pride..
P.S. when you started following the Sardines did you ever think Burton would play Villa , Blues , and Wolves in the league - walsall might also be there

[andy]

Are you sure Mason wasn't involved there.
At least now you can wear your jacket with pride..
P.S. when you started following the Sardines did you ever think Burton would play Villa , Blues , and Wolves in the league - walsall might also be there

It doesn't seem like 5 minutes ago we were trouncing Burton on their own turf in one of the best performances I can remember us putting in. Since then i guess It just shows the fine lines that can catapult a team to the heady heights that Burton have reached against effectively a backward step for us since then. We were without a doubt as big a club as Burton, Cheltenham and Crawley at that time and none of them really suggested football league status was round the corner. Maybe our turn will come.....

[andy]

P.S big congrats to Burton on their achievement. Disappointing though it was at the expense of Walsall.

[andy]

P.P.S A couple of years prior to my Cagliari watching they had successive promotions from SerieC to SerieA. They were managed by a guy named Ranieri. Whatever happened to him.....