The message from the protesting fans is clear: ‘Pisa will not bend’ It is Thursday, 2 February 2017, and I am making a familiar journey to Tuscany to take...
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Classic Match: Lazio vs. Milan 1999/00
In October 1999, Sven Goran Eriksson’s Lazio welcomed reigning champions AC Milan to the Stadio Olimpico. The Biancocelesti were unbeaten at the time and had recorded an impressive 2-1...
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As the camera panned around, the pictures on the wall started to come into focus. On them were scenes of glory, ecstasy and passion. A few were from generations...
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Selecciòn Catania: When the Sicilians danced an Argentine tango
With the inevitable exception of Palermo supporters, every devotee of Italian football cannot help but sigh when looking at the current state of affairs in Catania. The recent history...
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Cassano: The boy from Bari who became calcio’s most polarising character
The 1990s inside Bari’s biggest slum – the San Nicola district of Bari Vecchia – were particularly difficult times for the second most important economic centre of mainland Southern...
Read MoreClassic Match: Juventus vs. Internazionale 1996/97
Italian football fans didn’t have to wait long for the much anticipated first Derby d’Italia of the 1996-97 campaign. Roy Hodgson’s Inter would travel to Turin in week six...
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Sergio Cragnotti: The rise and fall of Lazio’s Roman Emperor
The emperors of ancient Rome were well-known for lascivious lifestyles, eccentric tastes and political controversies. History has long sought to argue just who built the biggest wall or which...
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Edoardo Longarini: The fallen King of Ancona
It has been said that on June 7 1992, the sound of the car horns in the centre of Ancona were so loud and continuous that the locals could...
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The Football Italia love affair
Gazzetta Football Italia: now that was a television programme. Although Channel 4’s live Italian matches were more than welcome it was the Saturday morning review and pre-cursor to...
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Atalanta’s Franck Kessie: The ultimate modern midfielder
To claim that Franck Kessie is the epitome of the modern midfielder is not an overstatement. And whilst it might be too early to deem him the ‘new Yaya...
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