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Chaos, Corruption and an Over-Sized Golden Boot: The Tale of Serie A’s Worst Ever Team

Hedonistic transfer policy was the recurrent hallmark of my teenage escapades on the Championship Manager computer game. A veritable revolving … More

ancona, anconitana, calcio, football, jardel, pandev, seriea, soccer

American Dream or Cruel Reality? Unravelling the Mystery of Roy Lassiter’s Snowbound Wonder Goal For Genoa 

Some say it was the embodiment of technical perfection. A goal that would have changed the course of a stricken … More

90sfootball, calcio, genoa, genoacfc, lassiter, montella, serieb, usa, usmnt

The White Elephants of Italia ’90

For three glorious weeks in the summer of 1990, Italy was resplendent under the gaze of the watching world. The … More

#calcio, football, italia, italia90, milan, milano, naples, napoli, roma, rome, seriea, torino, turin, worldcup, worldcup1990

Ronaldo, Pavarotti and Beating Zeman At His Own Game: Roy Hodgson’s Second Coming At Inter Milan

The 1990s had been a bleak decade for the blue and black half of Milano. Three victories in the UEFA … More

bergomi, bologna, calcio, djorkaeff, fcim, fcim1908, hodgson, inter, interisti, intermilan, moratti, nerazzurri, pagliuca, parma, recoba, ronaldo, seriea, venezia

Lucidio Sentimenti: Innovator, History-Maker, Goalkeeper Ahead of His Time

The Sentimenti family make a strong claim to being Italy’s finest footballing clan. There was either something in the genes or something … More

calcio, juve, juventus, lazio, modena, nazionale, seriea, torino, vicenza

Riccardo Carbone Napoli Photo Archive

Riccardo Carbone spent half a century capturing images of his home city of Naples. In the 1920s, his hobby as … More

calcio, football, italia, naples, napoli, photography, salernitana, seriea, vintage

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

afcon, afcon2021, afcon2022, afcon21, afcon22, africa, asroma, calcio, cameroon, cameroun, etoo, inter, italia90, lazio, mboma, minala, nkoulou, omambiyik, sampdoria, seriea, wome

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

1950s, calcio, finney, football, palermo, pnefc, preston, seriea

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

#asroma, #calcio, #roma, #SerieA, cupwinnerscup, uefa, wales

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

acmilan, asroma, calcio, inter, intermilan, juve, juventus, lazio, milan, napoli, seriea

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