James Nye travelled to Naples to see Napoli take on Milan, but with the club perpetually living in the past, modern day success will never happen....
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Milan 1-6 Juventus, 25 years on: A game that shifted the Serie A dynamic.
Emmet Gates spoke to former Juventus striker Christian Vieri on the legendary Milan 1-6 Juventus game from 25 years ago that marked a shift in the power dynamic in...
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Football Without Life is Nothing: A Review of The Hand of God
Henry Bell reviews Paolo Sorrentino's Oscar nominated È stata la mano di Dio (The Hand of God). Exploring it from a Italian football fan's perspective....
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The (meat)ball is round: how music led to Italian success at Euro 2020
Can Italy's victory at the Euro 2020 tournament be explained by the mutual love of a Neapolitan pop song about meatballs? Henry Bell investigates....
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Roberto Baggio’s Top Five European Goals
With the legendary Roberto Baggio celebrating his 55th birthday, Emmet Gates ranked his top five goals in European competition....
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Derby della Madonnina: Best Five Games
Richard Hall looks at five of the best ever games from the world famous Derby della Madonnina....
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Ghosts of Serie A’s Christmas past
Trevor Stynes takes a look at calcio's relationship with playing games during the festive period....
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Capocannoniere ’90: The Perfect World Cup Prelude
Henry Bell revisits the exciting, and frankly ludicrous, race for the 1989/90 Capocannoniere title, when Serie A's galaxy of stars all battled for the prize going into Italia '90....
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Diego Maradona, Moscow, Lenin and the beginning of the end
When does an intense, all-consuming relationship begin to sour? For Diego Maradona and Napoli, a trip to Moscow in November 1990 marked the beginning of the end....
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Roberto Baggio and me: Finding light in the darkness
James Oddy writes an emotional and personal article about suffering from depression, and finding moments of light through Roberto Baggio...
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