The Livorno Chronicle
Match21 Nov 2026
The wait goes on for Livorno
8 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Livorno
Gregorio Luperini was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Match21 Nov 2026
Gregorio Luperini’s goal not enough for Livorno
Gregorio Luperini scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Arezzo, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
One of those days for Gregorio Luperini
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.45, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad23 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Mario Noce
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Nobody could get near Kevin Biondi
Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Samuel Di Carmine leaves them behind him
Shots: 9. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Moses Odjer never got going
5.79 on the card. Some afternoons a footballer looks like a man who has only just been introduced to the game, and this was one of them.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Salvatore Monaco asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
In brief
- Squad Diego Peralta wants a proper job in this side
- The terraces The press cannot get enough of Gregorio Luperini