Italian Football Post-COVID Travel Guide and Checklist

**Now updated to reflect requirements coming into force on 16th December 2021** Serie A games played out in empty stadia … More

Home Is Where The Heart Is

Guest blogger Rick Elliott wraps up the Serie D season with Mantova 1911… In January 2017, at the halfway point … More

In gaining the right to host the 1990 World Cup, Italy unwittingly became victim of the fabled “winner’s curse”. Ahead … More

Guest blogger Rick Elliott reports from his balcony… On Sunday, I woke up to the news that the city of … More

Guest blogger Rick Elliott reflects on the ending of a union… Divorced. Freed from the shackles of misery. No more … More

Guest-blogger Rick Elliott and the travelling Mantova army receive the warmest of welcomes… As Mantova’s promotion push starts to gain … More

The game of football had initially been regarded as something of a curiosity in Italy. It was felt to be … More

Guest-blogger Rick Elliott takes the rough with the smooth as Mantova extend their lead at the top of Serie D … More

Virtus Entella hail from the picturesque coastal town of Chiavari on the Italian Riviera. Located 45 minutes south of Genoa … More

Guest-blogger Rick Elliott makes a difficult decision on matchday 9 that gives us an insight into his life in Mantova… … More