Fanfulla (A): A Hostile Reception in Lombardy

Guest-blogger Rick Elliott travelled to the Lombardian town of Lodi to see whether Mantova could extend their dominant start to … More

Sammaurese (A): Mantova Singing in the Rain

Guest-blogger Rick Elliott travels to San Mauro Pascoli – a town of poetry and footwear – for Mantova 1911’s first … More

For better or worse, Torino are a club defined by their past. The imperious Grande Torino team of the 1940s … More

The city of Bergamo is a hidden gem in Italy’s Lombardian crown. Located betwixt Milan and Brescia, close to the … More

Even by the standards of a World Cup, the selection of venues for Italia ’90 had an unusually political dimension. … More

Pro Vercelli established themselves as a powerhouse of Italian football during the early part of the twentieth century. They emerged … More

The port city of Salerno is immortalised in the photography of Andreas Gursky. He was on a family holiday in … More

June 8th 1990; Nessun Dorma, Des Lynam and Benjamin Massing physically assaulting Claudio Caniggia at the San Siro. That was … More

Guest blogger Rick Elliott prepares to batten down the hatches as autumn settles in… After an unusually warm October had … More

Guest blogger Rick Elliott walks in the steps of Julius Caesar… On 10th January 49 B.C. Julius Caesar stood on … More