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…
Naples and Maradona, a dream that won’t end
Naples provokes great debate. At first glance, it is dirty, unruly, scary and ugly. It is a sprawl, Italy’s most densely populated urban area, overlook…
Clubkultur: Napoli – the city of masks
Clubkultur is a Box To Box series exploring the true essence of the beautiful game, a look at the intangible feelings that keep us coming back to suppo…
Calcio at the foot of the Alps
Within 10 minutes of arriving in Turin, the first signs of the importance of football in the city became very evident: our taxi driver, in his obligato…
Clubkultur: Fiorentina, a very Italian heartbreak
Clubkultur is a Box To Box series exploring the true essence of the beautiful game, a look at the intangible feelings that keep us coming back to suppo…
Great Reputations: Torino 1940s – just how good were they?
The Superga air crash is embedded in the psyche of Italian football in much the same way that the Munich air disaster is in the history of the English …
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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. …
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…
Radja Nainggolan: Rome’s modern day warrior
Rome is a city steeped in ancient history. The Italian capital is home to many an iconic landmark, not least the imperious Colossuem. It’s here where g…