M I L A N: May 2011

Pretty Green in Milan shops

-12 days to take the speedy Frecciarossa (simil-Ferrari name but McLaren colours :)
to go to beautiful Florence (only 1 hour 45 mins) for the speedy Beady Eye.

362kmph in a tunnel, world record, bye bye french trains! (other pics here)

watching shop windows, women's favourite activity :)

Royal Britannia has Fred Perry and British stuff.
Important step, Pretty Green began in Milan (11 March 2009) but as you can see, only recently arrived in the city of fashion and it's in the shops windows here in the centre (a whole PG shop maybe by the end of the year). This one is very close to Saint George church, where I met Liam Gallagher buying shoes in 1997, near the Football English Pub where he was

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Milan world capital of football

MILAN

No city can boast the joint level of success that Milan can. Madrid may have seen the European Cup brought home nine times, but that was all Real's work, not Atletico's. By contrast AC Milan have won 18 international trophies (world record) with 7 European Cups/Champions Leagues and Inter have chipped in with three of their own, with both clubs winning a host of other continental cups. Milan's 2011 Serie A triumph took them level with Inter – who had won the previous five but not all of them "on the pitch" – on 18 titles. AC Milan and Inter are true giants of world football and their international success stretches from the early 1960s to the present day, with Inter winning the Champions League in 2010 and Milan the recent 2003 and 2007 Champions Leagues.
Berlusconi owns Italian giants AC Milan - and has done for 25 years. In this period, the Rossoneri have won 27 trophies - this year's Serie A title being the latest - prompting the controversial figure to suggest renaming the San Siro stadium after himself, as he's the most successful president in history, as there's Madrid's Bernabeu stadium named after that president already.

AC Milan 2011-2012 target will be to win the Champions League again.

League titles won: 36
Domestic cups won: 11
European trophies won: 20
World titles won: 7

International trophies won: 20+7= 27

BUENOS AIRES

There are an incredible 24 professional football clubs located in Buenos Aires, the most in world football. The two biggest are River Plate and Boca Juniors, who have won their domestic title 56 times between them. Buenos Aires can also boast five World Club Cup wins – three more than all of British football combined. No wonder this city managed to produce one of the greatest players ever to kick a ball, Diego Armando Maradona. But the best player in history was probably Pelè. Maradona had many drug problems and in the '80s they didn't check him... so we can't say if his performances were all regular.

League titles: 90 (we have to say that in some countries, as Spain, Scotland or Portugal , it's a bit easier to win League titles because there are less strong teams, and of course foreign teams can't play)

Copa Libertadores titles (South America's Champions League): 9

World titles: 5

International trophies: 9+5= 14

LIVERPOOL

It's 25 years since Liverpool and Everton met in the FA Cup final, with both clubs also having fought a season-long battle to be crowned title winners. Liverpool won the double that season, but Everton beat them to the title the season before and after. At the time it was said that if you were the best team on Merseyside, you were probably the best team in Europe too. How the mighty have fallen. While Liverpool have managed to pick up the odd cup and won the Champions League in 2005, the Reds have been off the pace in recent seasons. Everton, meanwhile, have been mired in mediocrity for decades, hampered by poor investment. Liverpool is a great football city, for sure, more than Manchester, looking at history, but it has a long way to go before it knocks Manchester off its current perch.

League titles: 27

Domestic cups: 19

European trophies: 12

World titles: 0

International trophies: 12+0= 12

LONDON

London can currently boast 13 professional football clubs, but traditionally those teams have (apart from Arsenal and, very occasionally, Tottenham) played second-fiddle to the cream of the north. In the last decade the capital city has experienced probably its most successful spell ever. Arsenal and Chelsea have been Manchester United's only consistently true rivals in the Premier League-era and both have come close to breaking London's duck in the Champions League final, but that is one key area in which this huge city falls down on the football front. Indeed, even a specially-created combined London XI – taking players from the capital's leading clubs – couldn't taste European success, losing the inaugural Fairs Cup final (the forerunner of the modern Europa League) to Barcelona in 1958.
Finally, in 2012 Chelsea won the first Champions League for a London club.

League titles won: 19

Domestic cups won: 40

European trophies won: 10

World titles won: 0

International trophies: 9+0= 10

MANCHESTER

In 1968 Manchester was home to both the English champions (Manchester City) and the European champions (Manchester United). Now, 43 years later, Manchester stands on the brink of claiming those two titles once more (but the Champions League only in United dreams), plus the FA Cup. Clinching the Premier League and FA Cup on the same day proved Manchester is now the football city in England, but the same could be said in the late 1960s when both clubs picked up titles and cups over several seasons before going into decline. Make the most of it Manchester, because nothing ever stays the same in football, apart from Milan.

League titles: 21 (City 2)
Domestic cups: 22 (City 5 FA Cups+2 League Cups) in England there are 2 Cups competitions , in Italy 1
European trophies: 6 (one is City's Cup Winners Cup in 1970)
World titles: 2
International trophies: 6+2= 8

GLASGOW

There are no fiercer rivals in world football than Celtic and Rangers. Religion wars. The two clubs have dominated Scottish football for most of its history and draw incredible crowds considering the dubious quality of the competition. Sadly for the Parkhead and Ibrox faithful, they remain huge fish in a very small pond, which hampers their impact outside the domestic scene. A repeat of Celtic's 1967 European Cup win looks more distant than ever, although both clubs made the Uefa Cup final in the past eight years to show the potential that will always exist in Glasgow.

League titles won: 96
Domestic cups won: 98
European trophies won: 2
World titles won: 0
International trophies: 2+0= 2

other cities, European international trophies:

MADRID (Spain), Real Madrid 15 + Atlético 2 = 20
BARCELONA (Spain), Barcelona 17
TORINO (Italy), Juventus 11
AMSTERDAM (Holland), Ajax 10
MUNICH (Germany), Bayern München 8
PORTO (Portugal), Porto 7 (updated with the Europea League won on 18 May)
VALENCIA (Spain), Valencia 6
ANDERLECHT (Bruxelles, Belgium), Anderlecht 5
PARMA (Italy), Parma 4
ROTTERDAM (Holland), Feyenoord 4
KIEV (Ukraine), Dynamo Kyiv 3
NOTTINGHAM (England), Nottingham Forest 3 (2 European Cups)
ROME (Italy), Lazio 2+Roma 1 = 3
SEVILLE (Spain), Sevilla 3
DORTMUND (Germany), Borussia Dortmund 3
LISBON (Portugal), Benfica 2+Sporting Lisboa 1 = 3
BIRMINGHAM (England), Aston Villa 2
LEEDS (England), Leeds 2
SAINT PETERSBURG (Russia), Zenit Sankt-Peterburg 2
EINDHOVEN (Holland), Psv 2
ABERDEEN (Scotland), Aberdeen 2
ZARAGOZA (Spain), Real Zaragoza 2
MECHELEN (Belgium), Mechelen 2
GÖTEBORG (Sweden), Ifk Göteborg 2
BELGRADE (Serbia), Red Star Beograd 2
BUCHAREST (Romania), Steaua Bucuresti 2
ISTANBUL (Turkey), Galatasaray 2
HAMBURG (Germany), Hamburg 2
MÖNCHENGLADBACH (Germany), Borussia Mönchengladbach 2
FIRENZE (Italy), Fiorentina 1
GENOVA (Italy), Sampdoria 1
NAPLES (Italy), Napoli 1
BUDAPEST (Hungary), Ferencvarosi 1
ZAGREB (Croatia), Dinamo Zagreb 1
BRATISLAVA (Slovakia), Slovan Bratislava 1
MOSCOW (Russia), Cska Moskva 1
DONETSK (Ukraine), Shakhtar Sachtar Donec'k 1
IPSWICH (England), Ipswich Town 1
TBILISI (Georgia), Dinamo Tbili 1
GELSENKIRCHEN (Germany), Schalke 04, 1
LEVERKUSEN (Germany), Bayer Leverkusen 1
FRANKFURT (Germany), Eintracht Frankfurt 1
BREMEN (Germany), Werder Bremen 1
MAGDEBURG (Germany), Fc Magdeburg 1
MARSEILLE (france), Olympique Marseille 1
PARIS (france), Paris Saint-Germain 1

but many of these above never won an European Cup/Champions League.

International trophies won:

ITALY & SPAIN 48
ENGLAND 38 (GREAT BRITAIN, ENGLAND+SCOTLAND 38+4= 42)
GERMANY 20
HOLLAND 16
PORTUGAL 10
BELGIUM 7
UKRAINE 4
SCOTLAND 4
RUSSIA 3
SWEDEN 2
TURKEY 2
ROMANIA 2
SERBIA 2
fRANCE lol 2
GEORGIA, SLOVAKIA, HUNGARY, CROATIA 1

A real world order could be:

1) Milan
2) Buenos Aires (Argentina)
3) Madrid
4) Montevideo (Uruguay)
5) Barcelona
6) Liverpool (but no Club World Cups)
7) Turin
8) Amsterdam and London (but no Club World Cups)
10) Munich, Manchester, Sao Paulo (Brazil), etc.

there would be Mexico City and some good African teams to add, but they have different competitions without winning any Club World Cup, so the value is different. Also in South America they have several international competitions, that's why Buenos Aires is 2nd (Sao Paulo would be at least 5th)

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free San Siro charity match +AC vip fans

Tonight, free entrance @ legendary San Siro stadium for a charity football match for Borgonovo, with famous players (Maldini, Allegri, Vieri, Baresi, Boban, Costacurta, Dida, Massaro, Pancaro, Tassotti, Serginho, Simic, etc.).

Famous AC Milan fans:

Gerry Scotti

Tom Cruise

Federica Fontana

Claudio Lippi

Robbie Williams

Pupi Avati

Diego Abatantuono

Massimo Boldi

Antonio Banderas

Teo Teocoli

Natalia Estrada

Laura Pausini

Fernanda Lessa

Ugo Conti

Ricky Tognazzi

Gianmarco Tognazzi

Renato Pozzetto

Alvin (Alberto Bonato)

Claudio Bisio

Umberto Smaila

Giorgio Panariello

Tony Renis

Melissa Satta

Valerio Staffelli

Daniele Bossari

Michelle Hunziker

Pino Scotto

Leone di Lernia

Alessia Ventura

Ennio Vitanza

Ludovico Peregrini

Claudio Abbado

Gabriele Parpiglia

Anna Brosio

Leonardo Manera

Francesco Mandelli il Nongiovane, Oasis fan

Enzo Jannacci

Ornella Vanoni

Renata Teixeira

Giorgio Mastrota

Gaspare (Nino Formicola)

Jo Squillo

Raffaele Morelli

Massimo Picozzi

Dario Fo

Franz (Francesco Villa)

Fiammetta Cicogna

Massimo Dapporto

Toto Cutugno

Cochi Ponzoni

Benedetta Massola

Matteo Branciamore

Belen Rodriguez

Camila Morais

Linda Santaguida

Marco Senise

Monica Setta

Nicola Ryan Bartolini Carrassi

Jim Kerr (Simple Minds)

J Ax

Francesco Sarcina (Le Vibrazioni)

dj Ringo

Simone Annicchiarico

Edoardo Costa

Fabrizio Fontana

Cristina Scabbia (Lacuna Coil)

New Kids on the Block

Digei Angelo

Massimo Scattarella

Alex Farolfi

Jonis Bascir

Antonio Casanova

Sara Tommasi
Beatrice Borromeo

Mauro Di Francesco

Domenico Dolce & Stefano Gabbana
Giorgio Armani
Laura Esposto

Cesare Cadeo

Edo Soldo

Max Laudadio

Jonas Brothers

Justin Bieber

Giorgio Gherarducci

Miriam Morlacchi

Sheila Capriolo

Gigi Marzullo
Fausto Bertinotti

Roberto Maroni

Matteo Salvini

Gabriele Albertini

Enrico Letta

Gianni Letta

Bobo Craxi

Filippo Penati

Roberto Formigoni

Daniele Marantelli

Giorgio Conte

Licia Ronzulli

Guido Podestà

Lara Comi

Maurizio Lupi

Flavia Pennetta

Giorgio Rocca

Gelindo Bordin

Diana Bianchedi

Damiano Cunego

Stefano Garzelli

Alessandro Ballan

Silvio Martinello

Ivan Basso

Antonio Rossi

Marco Melandri

Andrea Dovizioso

Marco Simoncelli

Manuel Poggiali

Felipe Massa

Kimi Raikkonen

Stefano Domenicali

Giorgio Pantano

Robert Doornbos

Robert Kubica

Claudio Brachino

Giorgio Terruzzi

Cristina Parodi

Claudia Peroni

Alberto Bilà

Federica Balestrieri

Piero Sansonetti

Andrea Vianello

Vittorio Zucconi

Alessandra Balletto

Giampaolo Gherarducci

Federico Buffa

Toni Capuozzo

Pierluigi Pardo

Emilio Fede

Luca Budel

Massimo Callegari

Federica Zanella
Marco Guido Nelson Zanella

Carlton Myers

Kobe Bryant

Mike D'Antoni

Ettore Messina

Gianmarco Pozzecco

Marco Basile

Stefano Mancinelli

Danilo Gallinari

Amar'e Stoudemire

Dennis Rodman

Mario Balotelli (Manchester City, ex Inter Milan)

Andrea Ranocchia (Inter)

Francesco Coco (ex Inter)

Davide Santon (ex Inter)

Edin Dzeko (Manchester City, photo below, in the centre)

Joe Cole "Milan fashion giants"

Didier Drogba

Dimitar Berbatov (Manchester United)
Rolando Bianchi (ex Manchester City)
Alessandro Matri
Vincenzo Iaquinta
Antonio Cabrini
Giuseppe Rossi
Milos Krasic

ecc. ecc.

late, not with us on earth

Giorgio Gaber

Ugo Tognazzi

Marco Pantani

Beppe Viola

Giorgio Porcaro

Manchester City shirt 2012: rossoneri AC Milan :)

Can you imagine next season, maybe going to the stadium to see AC Milan-Manchester City? wow it's 33 years is not happening, and never in Champions League. Noel Gallagher would come, as he did last year for Juventus-City

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the city with the best internet reputation

ROME - Milano received the first prize as touristic city with the best online reputation. That must be thanks to me, years promoting Milan, so I should stop now, lol. We've reached the target.
After 1st city of fashion and 1st city of football, Milan, the city of Expo 2015, a tourist destination with the best web reputation. This was the verdict delivered by the Prime Minister's Office (Department of Development and Competitiveness of Tourism) and the Committee for Innovation of the Ministry of Tourism. Milan has won the award at the Forum PA 2011.
Through the use of software that allows you to make the semantic analysis of the content published on the web, Milan managed to improve its tourist image outside. The project has allowed to monitor the online reputation of the brand Milano and to assess the sentiment on the competitiveness of the tourist city. The analysis yielded a significant improvement of marketing campaigns undertaken by the Municipality to promote tourism and local projects. The software used by the City Council has also won the ICT prize at the last edition of SMAU. The project was also presented to "Sentiment Analysis Symposium" held in New York in April 2011, confirming the importance of the work.

Ok can I say two or three things and ruin the online reputation, lol. I was born and always lived for decades in the historic centre, so I can :). Of course in the world there are much more spectacular cities, it can be New York, Barcelona, etc. what you want, I mean cities you would say "beautiful" looking at them. My favourite city is Barcelona, especially for its atmosphere. But of course every city has its own problems, it can be crime, as in those two cities, etc.
Milan can be spectacular if you're interested in arts, concerts, fashion, football, food, etc. (models love Milan) but of course you can find people, Italians or from Milan or foreign people, who say they don't like Milan, and even hate it. It can be for the traffic, but as Noel Gallagher I almost never use a car, I'm a v.i.p. and I always want a driver :). Or they say "it's grey", but this is the typical jealous comment, because it's not true, the sun almost always shines, even during the winter. They also say it's foggy, yes, it's a very English city but not so rainy.
In big cities as Milan, life is not so easy as it seems: there is everything, but prices are high, jobs are underpaid, etc. you have to "survive". I would go away, because I stayed here too much time. If any other city needs to raise its online reputation, then get me :)
If it's for tourism, you won't have big problems in Milan. But living in a place as this, you would notice that people tend to alienate themselves. It's not like in small towns where everybody knows everybody. Of course you can see people still meeting around and all, but it's like a domino effect: you don't meet someone anymore not because you don't want, but everybody is getting always busy or the contrary, too lazy, and there are always less "social meetings". Big companies are things for schoolboys, you have to fix a date with one or few people because it's impossible for everybody to be free at the same time.
It's not a so bad thing (see, I suffer from the domino effect :) and you end up having a life that I call "vita di nicchia", niche life: I mean you end up having a "v.i.p." life. You go to that important event, you go meeting that celebrity, etc. a few important things.
Here's one from my favourite philosopher, who already said some things similar to Noel Gallagher's lyrics... Of course Noel wrote them before him, lol.

"Sociability is the act for which the men warm to each other the spirit, just as, when it's cold, you warm up each other's body hugging each other. The more spiritual heat you have, the less you need of sociability: it therefore tends to increase when the spirit is reduced."
(A. Schopenhauer)

It seems that Milan is a city full of spiritual heat... But with this I don't mean that people refuse to be kind, usually they're ready to help you.

"The more you have inside yourself, the less you need of other people. That's why superiority of spirit makes you rather unsociable. The level of sociability is in inverse proportion to the intellectual value".
(Schopenhauer)

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AC Milan Dolce & Gabbana + Adidas

Behind the scenes. The arrival, supporting the photographers. 0:08 Benedetta 0:40 Beatrice 1:03 Abate 1:25 Max Allegri 1:50 Ibrahimovic 2:20 Pato 2:52 Mario Yepes 3:10 Zambrotta 3:23 Federica Fontana 3:47 Dolce & Gabbana 4:18 Galliani 4:26 Nesta & Pirlo 4:50 Benedetta fetish lol 5:18 Smaila & Pippo Inzaghi 6:11 Boateng 6:23 Seedorf 6:40 Gattuso 6:49 Massimo Ambrosini 7:07 Robinho 7:21 Abbiati. photos 7:53 Vera (Spadini). Not present: Thiago Silva and Cassano.

There was also an old man with a sign on himself, that read "I'm not communist", lol.

new shirt with the scudetto badge and the cup, plus manager Max Allegri and goalkeeper Abbiati,
at the Adidas Store in corso Buenos Aires avenue.
The sign: "Gesù sta arrivando" (Jesus is coming)

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Milan celebrations, part 2 + Moonwalk

We were a bit late in Duomo square 'cause we were watching Manchester City.
AC Milan won 4-1 (2 goals by ex Man City Robinho) wearing the new shirts,
Man City brother Boateng danced as Michael Jackson,
doing the Moonwalk on Billie Jean, it was a big show with the cup and all.
The fans and players were ironic about Inter Milan winning some of their last championships thanks to "calciopoli" scandal and phone calls (as the Champions League thanks to 15 referee mistakes),
so AC wrote that we won everything "on the pitch"... The first and only one club in Milan.

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Dolce & Gabbana AC Milan fashion

Dear faithful email readers :), Google Blogger is broken all around the world and now working only a bit (yesterday's posts erased and now trying to publish them again), since yesterday 12 May, today it's Friday 13, so of course it wasn't working :) and the people are getting very angry. The sites are available but it wasn't possible to post anything new. So with this email I'm telling you the latest news, I'm not leaving you alone without news :)
Noel is not going to the FA Cup final tomorrow, how strange, because he's in Los Angeles for the new album (Beckham with LA Galaxy will play vs Man City this summer there, as they both did some time ago vs AC Milan). So at Wembley there will be Liam only. The game starts at 3:00pm, English hour, and after that we'll be around to celebrate AC Milan with the players on the bus in the main square (from 5:30pm Italian hour).
So even if Blogger worked tomorrow, I won't post anything until late. There will be surely important news,
good or bad ones.
This image I'm sending you, is a new event for May 19 in Milan, with the players on the red carpet and sponsor from Milano S.Dolce & D.Gabbana, AC Milan fans.

In case of important news I'll send you an email.
ciao!

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Milano Jazzin' Festival 2011

Let's see if we can have Noel for a tour anticipation as last year. We've been to 2009 and 2010 MJF, with Morricone and Paolo Nutini, Dire Straits' Mark Knopfler, etc.

In July:

1/7 The Monte Carlo Nights Orchestra 

2/7 Davide Van De Sfroos 

3/7 the Beatles' Ringo Starr & All Starr Band

5/7 Arcade Fire + White Lies

6/7 Burt Bacharach + Mario Biondi
7/7 Ludovico Einaudi

8/7 Lou Reed

9/7 Afterhours

10/7 Chicago

11/7 George Benson

12/7 Public Enemy, Cypress Hill, House of Pain

13/7 Cyndi Lauper, girls just wanna have fun :)
14/7 Stefano Di Battista

15/7 Soulbop 

16/7 Vinicio Capossela

17/7 Paul Simon

18/7 Buena Vista Social Club 

19/7 Skunk Anansie

20/7 Ben Harper + Led Zeppelin's Robert Plant & The Band Of Joy

21/7 Erykah Badu

22/7 Moby

23/7 Duran Duran

25/7 Caro Emerald 

26/7 Subsonica

27/7 P.Magoni & F.Spinetti

28/7 Guns N' Roses' Slash

+more soon

August: free events

he said he never played with gloves in his life :)) So nice atmosphere, with lights and the biggest Christmas tree in the world. And he said we were crazy to stay there :))

performed by Oasis' Noel Gallagher. Burt Bacharach was on Oasis' first album cover image

song written by him in Italy. Oasis used to play live a bit of this at the end of Whatever

The Graduate film

Butch Cassidy film

I don't like Moby, but I'm putting everything

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Bob Marley in Milan

11 May, 30 years ago he died, and 31 years ago, June 1980, Bob Marley & the Wailers performed a big live concert in Milano, San Siro stadium (the old version) with 100,000 people attending. I'm not a fan of him, but he's one of the biggest music legends. Listening to what he said, he was really against white people, against politics and against money, but he earned a lot... from white people too. But I'm not against black people or whatever colour and I appreciate him. His reggae music reminds me of when I was a kid playing with videogames set in the Caribbean, as the Monkey Island :)
You can download the bootleg here (he would say: no money for downloading, lol)

No woman no cry

Jammin etc.

2nd part

Could you be loved - he was a big football fan

I shot the sheriff

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Miss Padania 2011

Do you remember last year, now the same: in one of the most elegant Milan theatres (Arcimboldi, 4 June), the main beauty contest in Northern Italy. Not only fashion, there will be also: dancing, singing, etc.

You can also attend as public (reservation required), the event will be then broadcasted on one of the mail Italian tv channels. That strange crown for the winner is typical of North Italy, from Manzoni biggest Italian love story "The betrothed" (i Promessi Sposi).
More details soon if you need.
I added other travelling competitions:
win a weekend in Venice
win Milan (14 May)
win Heineken festival in Venice (9 June)
win Florence (8 June)

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Milan champion. Beckham: they deserve it

Breaking news: il Milan è campione d'Italia!
Now it's official :), AC Milan won the Italian league, 3 weeks before the end.
Two crucial numbers: 18, as the number of Italian leagues won, 18 as the number of international trophies. And 11 as Ibrahimovic number, 11 as 2011, special year to be champions, as it's Italy's anniversary.
Another confirmation about Ibra: where he goes to play, he wins the championship, every year. This is happening since 2003-04 (Ajax, Holland) then in Italy, Juventus, Inter Milan, then in Spain with Barcelona and now AC.
More celebration next Saturday 14 May, with the players on a bus around the city.
Beckham (he also had an accident this morning in Los Angeles, as at the end of this video) wrote a message: "just been watching my old teammates at Milan win the Scudetto. I want to congratulate them and everyone at the club for a great season. They deserve it..."

direct live from Milan, 0:00 Football English pub (with bubbles :) where Liam Gallagher was, a little over-crowded 1:12 explosion of enthusiasm, marble tables broken, people embracing 2:32 let's go outside, people arriving 5:44 cars going crazy 6:22 on the beach, lol 7:43 sad part: a boy had an accident :(
"The best of" the season video on the right column.

songs: Abracadabra (Ibracadabra :) by the Steve Miller Band, The Best (Tina Turner), Mamma mia (Abba, Swedish as Ibra), The winner takes it all (Abba), all songs from around the years when these players were born.

...with final surprise (Milan Channel director shouting against Inter Milan fans, lol)

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coming up next... main events calendar

when you want:

football game Girls vs Boys

bicycle excursion to Star Mountain

Lambretta free museum
San Siro tour and museum
Quadrophenia alley sex on the wonderwall :)
fucking in the bushes :)

Bunga-Bunga night :)

trip to Fucking, Austria, lol

2013

31 January: new McLaren

14->17 February: BIT 2013 international tourism exhibition

20 February: AC Milan-Barcelona 2-0

20->26 February: Milan woman fashion week, autum-winter 2013-2014 (settimana della moda donna autunno/inverno 2013)

17 March: Milano-Sanremo

22->24 March: Italia beer festival, festa birra Milano

13-14 April: Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2013 (furniture exhibition), Milan design week

11 May: Radio Italia Live

30 May: Kasabian free concert @ piazza Duomo

10 June: Beady Eye new album

7 June: Miss Padania 2013

June+July: Milano City Sound 2013

12 June: the Killers+Stereophonics in Milano

from 15 June: Confederations Cup @ pub, Italy vs Brazil, Japan, Mexico

22->26 June: Milan man fashion week

28 June: Blur in Milano

29 June: Bon Jovi @ San Siro

July: Heineken Jammin' Festival 2013 - ERASED

6 July: Pistoia Blues festival in Toscana

18 July: Depeche Mode @ San Siro

31 July: Robbie Williams @ San Siro

soon: Rolling Stones LAST tour, 50th anniversary 1962-2012

5->8 September: Monza 2013

12 September: Rush @ cinema

18->24 September: Milan woman fashion week (settimana moda donna)

5->10 November: 71. Eicma 2013

by the end of the year: people calling BeadyEye their babies :)

"L'Italia è la casa spirituale degli Oasis.

I ragazzi italiani sono come me, molto passionali.
4 elementi li contraddistinguono: il calcio, la musica, la famiglia e l'amore per l'eleganza. I miei amici italiani sono dei fighi, indossano vestiti e scarpe stupende, sciarpe favolose, occhiali da sole anche di notte e donne bellissime al loro fianco. Beh, sono considerato una figura santa in Italia. E' Milano... l'Italia è grande amico, cazzo se mi piace andarci".

(Noel Gallagher, Oasis)

Italy is Oasis spiritual home.

Italian boys are like me, very passionate.
4 elements mark them: football, music, family and love for elegance. My Italian friends are cool, they wear wonderful clothes and shoes, fabulous scarves, sunglasses even at night and beautiful women by their side. Well, I'm considered quite a holy figure in Italy, It's Milan... Italy's great man, I fucking love going there.

"Milano è il miglior fottuto pubblico, e lo dico davvero!"

(toccandosi il cuore più volte)

(Liam Gallagher, Oasis)

Milan is the best fucking crowd, and I really mean it!

(touching his heart more times)

"Nice jacket"

(Liam Gallagher embracing me)