Speroni

Lawrence saw another free-kick deflected just over before Varney got away down the right and Speroni came rushing off his line but the Pompey frontman failed to get the lift on his shot with the goal gaping.

Crystal Palace 0-0 Portsmouth | Championship match report 2011

Birmingham came close to scoring on 50 minutes, as Speroni flapped away Steven Caldwell's goalbound header from a corner.

Crystal Palace 1-0 Birmingham City | Championship match report 2011

Neither side took control at the start of the second half but Portsmouth had a half-chance when Joel Ward mis-hit a cross that Speroni had to claw away and Palace cleared the resulting corner.

Crystal Palace 0-0 Portsmouth | Championship match report 2011

Lawrence continued to look dangerous from set-pieces and Speroni made a mess of a free-kick from the Irishman but the referee ruled that the Palace goalkeeper had been fouled.

Crystal Palace 0-0 Portsmouth | Championship match report 2011

The busy Burke cut in from the right and his shot was pushed away by Speroni.

Crystal Palace 1-0 Birmingham City | Championship match report 2011

Luke Varney had a good chance to lob the Palace goalkeeper Julian Speroni in the second half but got his shot wrong and the home side held on for a point and an impressive sixth consecutive clean sheet.

Crystal Palace 0-0 Portsmouth | Championship match report 2011

In one of the most unusual moments in this literature, Vacarius responded to a scenario created by his opponent, the heretic Ugo Speroni: an impossible dialogue between God and a miscarried fetus (abortivus, meaning any fetus not brought to full term through intentional abortion or spontaneous miscarriage).

A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

His highly idiosyncratic ideas have been preserved in a refutation of them by an acquaintance, Vacarius, a professor of Roman law, with whom Speroni had studied in Bologna.

A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

Some (the followers of Hugo Speroni), in Piacenza, preached predestination.

A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

Based in Piacenza was a small sect consisting of followers of the teachings of one of the city's consuls, Hugo Speroni, who began to preach a doctrine of predestination circa 1175.

A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005