Great Reputations: Hellas Verona 1985 – a romantic tale to rival Shakespeare
Modern football has made it nigh on impossible for provincial teams to win major prizes. As the game’s chief beneficiaries are mostly metropolitan club…
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Great Reputations: When Sampdoria shocked the system
Think of Italian football and you come up with Juventus, Milan and Internazionale, in that order. Then add to that Roma and Napoli, perhaps Lazio. Toda…
Great Reputations: Grande Inter – a harsh legacy?
There was an air of menace about them: Black and blue stripes; dark, matinee idol looks; oiled hair; and a dictatorial manager who had a slightly sinis…
Parma Calcio 1913: From European glory to the brink of collapse
Despite a decade of success in the late 2000s, it’s been a long and complicated road for the eleventh most successful club in Italian football. Years o…
The price of a golden goal
This story was first featured in Issue 4: Stranger Things, which is currently available to buy here. Scoring the winning goal for your country, deep i…
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Lazio’s bad three game winless run at the end of last season cost them a *possible* fourth place, and was really tough viewing for any Le Aquile fans. …
Breaking down the greatest warm-up of all time, courtesy of Diego Maradona
There is no doubt that Diego Maradona is one of the greatest of all time. Drugs and Italian mafia links aside, his attributes on a football pitch mesme…
Javier Zanetti: Mr. Inter
“The real football icon.” - Roberto Mancini Inter veteran Javier Zanetti was meant to grace the Serie A with his presence once more after a near caree…
Totti: Age was but a number
“You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.” - Harvey Dent, The Dark Knight, 2008 Many stars have graced the ha…
Stadium talk is cheap in Rome
When AS Roma released plans to build a new stadium on the outskirts of Rome, quite a few Romanistas were excited, quite a few were anxious with anticip…