Comments on Spangly Princess: Here is today's press release from the Osservatori...

Dear PhilCAFC:don't hold your breath on the ID car...

2007-11-14T00:09:00.000+01:00

Dear PhilCAFC:

don't hold your breath on the ID cards, nor anything else. Wait and see what happens when the dust has settled. And don't panic about the prospect of getting to games, nice safe tourists is exactly who they want to encourage! (I'm assuming you're not a rabid hoolie?)

November 25 eh? I heppen to be out in Rome on that...

2007-11-13T12:17:00.000+01:00

November 25 eh? I heppen to be out in Rome on that very day. Should be interesting, to say the least.

Thanks from me also, great, insightful coverage as...

2007-11-13T02:33:00.000+01:00

Thanks from me also, great, insightful coverage as ever.

ID cards? Eek. That's going to make travelling over for games even harder. I booked flights on Friday for Milan-Juve and Atalanta-Napoli, guess I can write that off (like Milan-Samp in February).

Hard to see where we go from here, but as you said, this goes much deeper than football. Training stewards and restricting tickets won't change anything socially. It's sad that again a life has to be lost for upheaval to even be considered.

Thanks to all here (Spangly Princess, and also Mar...

2007-11-12T22:27:00.000+01:00

Thanks to all here (Spangly Princess, and also Martha and Ursus) for what has been really excellent coverage of this nightmarish situation--the work you've done in keeping the innumerable strands of this story collected in one place has been exemplary and has shown the value of blogs in a crisis. I just wanted to let you know that I've linked to your coverage in my own discussion at The Run of Play, in a post on why we find football violence so fascinating. You can see my post here:

Football Violence, in Italy and Everywhere

Thanks again for your terrific work.

Abete did say that the restart is expected for the...

2007-11-12T21:58:00.000+01:00

Abete did say that the restart is expected for the 25th (Serie A was already off next weekend for the Scotland match), but everything is subject to change at this point.

THANK YOU for translating that, Google was making ...

2007-11-12T21:35:00.000+01:00

THANK YOU for translating that, Google was making my eyes bleed.

It sounds like at the FIGC press conference, the Serie A restart was named as November 25; is that wrong, or do you think they're lying? Or that it'll change later this week?