Sir Thomas Lipton: The Glaswegian Tea Magnate Who Inspired Early Italian Football Visitors to the town of West Auckland in County Durham, northern England, are greeted with road signs...
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For Azzuri fans, Italia ’90 was the one that got away. Stolen in Naples by the head of Claudio Caniggia and the lottery of penalties. From a footballing perspective,...
Read MoreTales from the Peninsula: Adventures in Serie B with Empoli
I’ve been to northern Italy enough times in the winter to know that it falls victim to gionata piovosa (daily rain) as much as England in February. The promise...
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