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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…

Serie C: 2021/22 Kit Review

We’ve searched high and low amongst the 60 clubs in Italy’s third tier to bring you the finest new shirts…

#football, adidas, calcio, catania, footballshirt, footballshirts, kappa, kits, legea, macron, mantova, nike, padova, palermo, pescara, seriea, taranto

Exclusive Interview with Crotone’s Captain Ahmad Benali: A Career Forged in Manchester That Flourished in Italy

After twelve immersive years in Manchester City’s youth system, the summer of 2012 represented a major career crossroads for Ahmad Benali.…

#calcio, #mcfc, #SerieA, #SerieB, benali, crotone, crotonefc, fccrotone, interview, manchester, manchestercity, mancity

Serie B: 2021/22 Kit Review

Welcome to our round-up of the contemporary sartorial looks that will be gracing Serie B in the 2021/22 season. Join…

#alessandria, #benevento, #calcio, #football, #italy, #parma, #SerieB, #ternana

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…

1960, calcio, greatbritain, italia, olympicgames, olympics, rome, romeolympics

Serie A: 2021/22 Kit Review

Welcome to our round-up of the new shirts that will be gracing Serie A in the 2021/22 season. Join us…

acmilan, asroma, inter, juve, juventus, lazio, milan, seriea, udinese

Venezia FC: Fighting For Stadio Penzo

NOTE: This article was published in summer 2021; it contains both historical information about the stadium and developments that were…

#calcio, groundhopping, italia, italy, seriea, stadio, stadium, venezia, veneziafc

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…

azzurri, buffon, footballshirt, italia, italy, juve, juventus, nazionale, parma, psg

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…

fifa, football, italia90, juventus, torino, turin, worldcup

Serie A – Black Friday 2021

We spent an hour this morning trawling the websites of every Serie A team in search of some Black Friday…

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