TGU Calcio Castaways (E07): With Luca Hodges-Ramon In the latest instalment of our series, Richard Hall asked Luca Hodges-Ramon to choose his favourite goals, games and person to hang...
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Top Five Calcio Shirts: Richard Hall
We at The Gentleman Ultra are fascinated by football shirts, especially Italian football shirts. Many of the greatest jerseys ever made originated from Serie A. In a new series,...
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Anselmo Robbiati: Fiorentina’s cult-hero supersub
Every season since 1982/83, the National Basketball Association releases its Sixth Man of the Year Award. This award is given to the best performing player coming off the bench...
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The Greatest Napoli Shirts of the Maradona Years
Diego Armando Maradona played in Serie A for seven years. In honour of the great man’s 60th birthday. We at The Gentleman Ultra asked Napoli shirt expert Damien Eck,...
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Diego Armando Maradona: Six for 60
“Thank you to my sources of inspiration: Federico Fellini, Talking Heads, Martin Scorsese and Diego Armando Maradona,” professed director Paolo Sorrentino on stage at the 86th Academy Awards. It’s...
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Tales from the Peninsula: Napoli vs Juventus – it’s always feisty
There are many brilliant stories connected to Napoli and the Stadio San Paolo. I myself have been fortunate enough to see a few matches in the famous city and...
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TGU Calcio Castaways (E04): With Sheridan Bird
TGU Calcio Castaways (E04): With Sheridan Bird In the latest instalment of our series, Richard Hall asked Sheridan Bird to choose his favourite goals, games and person to hang...
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“This is my Dream”: How a vision became reality for Stanislav Lobotka
“He first takes the ball, pulls it, pre-brakes, and then stops. It’s not easy to play against a football player like him, we had to get fresh blood to...
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Trials, tribulations and triumphs: How Fabio Quagliarella became one of Italy’s great strikers
The incredible story of how Fabio Quagliarella grew to become one of Serie A’s top strikers before a stalker turned his world upside down – and his rise back...
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When Calcio Ruled the World: Fernando De Napoli
No football team can rely on one genius alone to achieve greatness. Perhaps nowhere in Italian football history is this idea more misrepresented than when talking about ‘Maradona’s Napoli.’...
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