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TGU Storytelling Sagas (E01): Daniele De Rossi – The Wall of Ostia

September 25, 2020July 26, 2023Wayne Girard

In the first episode of Storytelling Sagas, Wayne Girard narrates his piece on Daniele De Rossi’s heroic yet tumultuous career: https://anchor.fm/gentlemanultra/episodes/TGU-Storytelling-Sagas-EO1-Daniele-De-Rossi—The-Wall-of-Ostia-ek5h7r The original story can be found here: Daniele...

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A Season with Verona: 20 Years On the Remarkable Season

September 24, 2020August 14, 2021Wayne Girard

A Season with Verona, the cult classic by Tim Parks, charted the highs and lows of one memorable season spent following Hellas Verona. At that time, they were an...

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TGU Calcio Castaways (E06): With Richard Hall

September 19, 2020July 26, 2023Wayne Girard

 In the latest installment of our series, Wayne Girard asked Richard Hall to choose his favourite goals, games and person to hang out with on a desert island. Rich is...

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TGU Calcio Castaways (E05): With Wayne Girard

August 28, 2020July 26, 2023Wayne Girard

TGU Calcio Castaways (E05): With Wayne Girard In the latest instalment of our series, Richard Hall asked Wayne Girard to choose his favourite goals, games and person to hang out with on a...

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The dancing feet of Gaetano Castrovilli: Italy’s rising star inspiring the kids of Bari

March 31, 2020March 31, 2020Wayne Girard

You can almost hear the shifting of his feet against each blade of grass, a rustle in the wind. His feet were dancing to a beat, in tune with...

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The birth of political extremism in Italian Football

March 14, 2020March 14, 2020Wayne Girard

The following story explores neo-radicalism during Italy’s Years of Lead and the era’s impact on contemporary football. The Phoenix of Fascism On 2 August 1980, young Angela Fresu shifted...

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Mario Balotelli: A portrait of adversity

January 16, 2018August 14, 2021Wayne Girard

The year is 1461 – Portuguese explorers have just sailed onto the shores of modern day Sierra Leone, just above the Gulf of Guinea. It’s the tipping point of...

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Daniele De Rossi

Daniele De Rossi: The wall of Ostia

July 3, 2017August 19, 2021Wayne Girard

The ancient city of Ostia has been the physical and geographical guardian of Rome since the Lupetta she-wolf saved Romulus and Remus from their infanticidal fate along the banks...

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The footballer & the Mafia: Fabrizio Miccoli’s flirtation with ‘Cosa Nostra’

June 1, 2017August 19, 2021Wayne Girard

When the British East India Company returned from the Far East in the 1660s, they presented a strange plant called tea to King Charles II. His beautiful Portuguese bride...

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Cassano: The boy from Bari who became calcio’s most polarising character

February 7, 2017August 18, 2021Wayne Girard

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...

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