Thankfully, the train wreck that was Week 8 is over, and were it not for the presence of Napoli, Genoa and Juventus in the top half of the table, I’d swear that we were repeating (albeit roughly) the shenanigans of last season, with Inter in the lead, and Milan doing worse than we’ve come to expect.

While I understand that we still have roughly 79 percent of the season ahead of us (leaving everything wide open, I suppose), the fact that things are looking kinda/sorta like they did last season so early on is a little disappointing.

I mean seriously, will somebody please knock Inter off of their pedestal?

After eight matches, only two teams have even managed to draw with them. Scary, right? With the exception of Fiorentina, Argenti… I mean Inter, is the only unbeaten team in Serie A, and that’s mostly without the benefit of Materazzi’s height.

So then, it stands to reason that maybe Inter is that good.

Well, perhaps it appears that way on the surface, but let’s look a little deeper into ArgentInter’s (Did I just make that up?) record, shall we?

First, we’ll check out which teams managed to hold these guys to a single point. The first was Udinese, in Week 1. Although the score reads 1-1, ArgentInter didn’t even score in that match; they owe their point to an Udinese own-goal. [infomercial announcer] But wait! There’s more! [/infomercial announcer] Their other draw was against none other than abysmal Livorno, in Week 4. If you don’t have a sense of how bad that is, go check out the standings again,take note of how Livorno is doing, and then come on back here.

Back?

Did you notice who is just above Livorno on the table, wallowing in second-to-last place? If so, I’d just like to point out that that’s the team that held ArgentInter to one goal this week. In case you haven’t surmised it yet, I’m demonstrating that Inter is not the dominating force that their record suggests; the fact of the matter is, they’ve dodged some bullets, and it’s only a matter of time (I hope) until somebody scores a direct hit.

So, who will it be? Looking ahead, after their Champions League tie with CSKA Moscow, they’ll visit Palermo, host Genoa, and then travel to Turin to face Juventus. Please! Somebody stop Inter!

In other news, Dida tried to ‘kiss and make up’ with the Rossoneri tifosi this week.

Yep. You read that correctly. Dida, my most despised ‘keeper, must have some sense of the fact that what he did was quite wrong. Subsequently, he apparently took a lap around the pitch at San Siro and bowed to the crowd in apology. Congratulations, Dida. You have just been downgraded from “complete arsehole” to “regular arsehole.” Knowing that something you did was wrong is better than not knowing, but it doesn’t change the fact that you did it. Henceforth, whenever anyone goes down like that, I’m saying that they “Did a Dida.”

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