With 87 minutes on the clock and trailing by three goals, Sampdoria had little more than professional pride at stake … More
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Dreaming of Italy: Romanticising The British-Italian Transfers That Never Happened – 2010s
We’ve trawled through four decades of tabloid archives and ghost-written autobiographies to find the mouth-watering (and occasionally outrageous) British-Italian transfers … More
Dreaming Of Italy: Romanticising The British-Italian Transfers That Never Happened – 2000s
We’ve trawled through four decades of tabloid archives and ghost-written autobiographies to find the mouth-watering (and occasionally outrageous) British-Italian transfers … More
Dreaming Of Italy: Romanticising The British-Italian Transfers That Never Happened – 1980s
We’ve trawled through four decades of tabloid archives and ghost-written autobiographies to find the mouth-watering (and occasionally outrageous) British-Italian transfers that … More
An Italian Education: Kobe Jae Chong at Cagliari
Kobe Jae Chong has packed more into his 18 years than most can lay claim to in a lifetime. From … More
Rooming with Conte: Ronnie O’Brien’s Italian Adventure
In February 1999, Ronnie O’Brien was called into Bryan Robson’s office to be told the heartbreaking news that he was … More
Big Man, Little Man: Physical Diversity in Serie A
Romelu Lukaku endured a frustrating dip in form for his club Manchester United in autumn 2018. Looking back, he attributed … More
My Visit To Sampdoria…
This article comes courtesy of a new guest blogger; my son, Alex! With the UK now in lockdown and schools … More
What Ever Happened to Pietro Pellegri?
Twenty-eighth May 2017, Stadio Olimpico, Rome. It’s the final day of the season and the stage is set for the … More
Cracking the Enigma: The Making of Josip Iličić
Josip Iličić stands atop a mountain, a player at the peak of his powers. The conjurer-in-chief for an Atalanta side that … More
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