Lost in the translation

When we heard on Saturday that Robbie Keane had scored for Inter Milan we rushed, all-a-fluster, straight to the club's official…

When we heard on Saturday that Robbie Keane had scored for Inter Milan we rushed, all-a-fluster, straight to the club's official website to read all about it. We only have two words of Italian (`Paolo' and `Maldini') so we needed the help of internet translator Babelfish to tell us how precisely 'the Little Irish', as they call him, found the back of the net. "Keane launch on the wire of the fuorigioco avoids a defender and it is found alone in front of Peruzzi, Bravo but to lanciarsi on the feet of the Irish sventando the danger." Mmm, what a goal, eh?

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