You’ve seen it so many times down the years, the same picture that’s always trotted out, regular as clockwork. Whenever there’s a discussion about the greatest club sides of...
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TGU Debates: The future of the Italian national team
We at The Gentleman Ultra spend a lot of time talking and writing about Italian football’s past. However, on this occasion, we decided to focus on the future. For...
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The making of El Cholo: Diego Simeone at Pisa
It is deadline day in the summer of 1990. The pressure is on the President of Pisa, Romeo Anconetani. He had promised a big signing, but none had entered...
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One team, many incarnations: Ancona’s journey from Serie A to the amateurs
It’s April 10, 2004, the 29th match day of the Serie A season. At the Stadio Del Conero, Ancona are about to host Bologna. As the kick-off time approaches...
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The TGU Netflix Review | First Team: Juventus
“We will be able to win only if we sacrifice ourselves for one another.” This is the message echoed from Juventus chairman Andrea Agnelli as the club are prepared...
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Retiring squad numbers and the winning mentality
Recently, I spoke to some London-based Napoli fans who were understandably in buoyant mood with their club flying high in Serie A and playing some of the best football...
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Marco Delvecchio: The Lazio tormentor
Marco Delvecchio is wheeling away from goal. He’s just done what he would go on to be famed for. He has given Roma the lead in the derby. It...
Read MorePaolo Poggi: the forgotten story of Italy’s itinerant goalscorer
If Italian football was a Trivial Pursuit category, Paolo Poggi would feature prominently among the answers. The scorer of the fastest-ever goal in Serie A? Poggi, of course. The...
Read MoreMai dimenticato: The tragedy of Piermario Morosini
A huge roar of “Come on!” reverberates around White Hart Lane. It is an FA Cup quarter-final with the winner heading to Wembley. But there is no football going...
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TGU Book Review: Il Re Calcio II, by Paul Grech
The image of Lazio club manager Angelo Peruzzi celebrating the side’s 2017 Italian Super Cup triumph over Juventus is what inspired Paul Grech to write the second part of...
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