AFCON 2021 Special: From Milla to Minala, Exploring The Unique Relationship Between Italy and Cameroon

The African Cup of Nations returns to Cameroon this month, half a century after the five-time champions last hosted the competition. In honour of this … More

Sir Tom Finney: How The Preston Plumber Nearly Became The Palermo Plumber

Sir Tom Finney is widely regarded as one of the greatest English footballers of all time and rightly lauded as … More

Before Hollywood, there was Rome: the story of Wrexham’s 1984/85 Cup Winners Cup adventure

Long before Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney rolled into Wrexham, Wales’ oldest football club had already demonstrated they could script a captivating drama … More

Ever heard the one about the scholar, the Goddess and the plucked cockerel? How mascots arrived in Italian football

Nothing captures the identity and tribalism of the beautiful game quite as succinctly as a club crest. It is a … More

Dreaming Of Italy: Romanticising The British-Italian Transfers That Never Happened – 1980s Volume II

We’ve trawled through four decades of tabloid archives and ghost-written autobiographies to find the mouth-watering (and occasionally outrageous) transfers that could … More

Socialist Muscle, Plucky Amateurs and Trapattoni’s Sweetheart: The Story of The 1960 Olympic Football Tournament

Faster, Higher, Stronger. An Olympic motto that embodies the raw majesty of sporting endeavour, but one which poorly captures the artistry … More

Shirt Tales: Gianluigi Buffon

Telling the story of Gianluigi Buffon’s carrer through the medium of polyester… Parma 1995/96 On the 19th November 1995, a … More

A Love Letter To The Nets of Turin

Goal nets have become a prosaic piece of the footballing furniture. Homogenous, functional and ultimately forgettable. But it hasn’t always been … More

Italy’s Ghost Stadia: Il Nord

In the UK, the unveiling of a new football stadium almost always implies the demise of its predecessor. Finance dictates … More

Italy’s Ghost Stadia: Centrale