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Inferno, Purgatory, Paradise: The Forgotten Chapter of Batistuta’s Florentine Story

“Florence has not forgotten Batistuta”, declared the city’s Mayor as he conferred honourary citizenship upon the Argentinian in 2016.  Over…

90sfootball, batistuta, fiorentina, firenze, florence, laviola, seriea, serieb

Classic Encounters: Padova 2-0 Milan, 16 October 1994

Newly-promoted Padova were enduring a torrid start to their 1994/95 campaign.  Anchored to the bottom of Serie A with a…

90sfootball, acmilan, calcio, forzapadova, lalas, milan, milano, padovacalcio, rossoneri, seriea, usmnt

Demetrio Albertini: Coming Of Age

In the annals of Italian football, few names resonate with the same reverence as Demetrio Albertini.   “The Metronome” was a symbol…

90sfootball, acmilan, albertini, bianoscudati, calcio, calciopadova, forzapadova, milan, padova, padovacalcio, serieb

Classic Encounters: Inter 0-1 Padova, 21 September 1994

Newly promoted Padova were enduring a brutal introduction to life in Serie A. The first three games of their 1994/95…

90sfootball, biancoscudati, forzapadova, lalas, padova, padovacalcio, seriea

Calcio Travel Notes: Hellas Verona

Welcome to our travel notes for Hellas Verona – part of our on-going series covering stadia and cities across Italy.…

awaydays, calcio, hellas, hellasverona, hvfc, verona

Serie B 2023/24 | Kit Gallery

Welcome to our gallery displaying the contemporary sartorial looks that will be gracing Serie B in the 2023/24 season. Cast…

bari, footballshirt, legab, palermo, parma, serieb, seriebkt, sscbari, venezia, veneziafc

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

We’ve trawled through tabloid archives and ghost-written autobiographies to find the mouth-watering British-Italian transfers that never quite happened. Our previous forays…

80sfootball, acmilan, calcio, celtic, hoddle, pisa, sampdoria, seriea

The Tempestuous Curtain Call of a Tournament Destined to Fail: the Anglo-Italian Cup 1992-96

In the third of a four-part series, we relive the curiosities of a tournament that sent Gabriel Batistuta to Stoke…

#calcio, #fiorentina, #football, #footballitalia, #genoa, #genova, #italy, #marassi, #reggiana, #salernitana, #SerieB, #swindon, 90sfootball

Pitch Perfect: An Interview With Udinese Head Groundsman Oliver Grice-Hewitt

We caught up with Udinese’s Head Grounds Manager, Oli Grice-Hewitt, to hear about the challenges of working in a new…

calcio, italia, italy, napoli, seriea, turfmanagement, udine, udinese

Retrocessione! How Misfortune And Mismanagement Sent Platt’s Bari Back To B

Bari’s charismatic President, Vincenzo Matarrese, had grandiose visions for his club.  I Galletti had historically flitted between Italy’s first and second…

90sfootball, bari, boban, calcio, football, italy, jarni, matarrese, platt, seriea, sscbari

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