You often hear the phrase ‘nice problem to have’ being used when it comes to a manager with a selection headache due to having a lot of players. The...
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Nostalgic Serie A five-a-side teams: picking a line-up for … Pisa
Picking a five-a-side team for a side whose glory days are 30-years away could look like a mere rhetorical exercise. By the way, we are still talking about a...
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Nostalgic Serie A 5-a-side teams: picking a line-up for… Sampdoria
All my Sampdoria five-side-team played together in the club’s most successful period from 1984-1994. It would have been easy to pick an ultra-attacking side with four forwards, yet in...
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Nostalgic Serie A 5-a-side teams: picking a line-up for… AS Roma
Here we go; the almost impossible task of picking an AS Roma five-a-side team and keeping most people happy! Roma, like many Italian sides, are a club with a...
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Nostalgic Serie A five-a-side teams: picking a line-up for … Hellas Verona
The Gentleman Ultra is back with a new Series. This time its the nostalgic Serie A teams of Calcio. Richard Hough takes his pick from the Hellas Verona golden...
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Nostalgic Serie A 5-a-side teams: picking a line-up for … Fiorentina
The Gentleman Ultra is back with a new Series. This time it’s the nostalgic Serie A teams of Calcio. Giancarlo Rinaldi takes us back to Tuscany with his pick...
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Ciao Toto, the Man with Sicilian eyes
Nervous, white as a sheet and with the eyes of a nation transfixed on him, he could probably have heard the simultaneous beats of the hearts of those in...
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Caldiero Terme
Next season, Serie C will welcome a new club to its ranks in the shape of Caldiero Terme. Big names such as Vicenza, Padova and Triestina will have to...
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The Gentleman Ultra’s Nostalgic 5-aside: Parma
The Gentleman Ultra is back with a new Series. This time its the nostalgic Serie A teams of Calcio. Mark Gordon takes the decison to start off with an...
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Italy at the Euros (Part II)
With the knock-out phase of Euro 2024 about to commence the Gentleman Ultra reflects on the highs and lows, heroes and villains of past European campaigns....
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