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Football in 2012
Around this time last year I shared some hopes, dreams and aspirations for football in 2011. Despite being an utterly futile exercise, a yearly wish list is standard fare for all aspiring football...
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New in Top Five: Francesco Totti
I’m not planning on doing many Top Fives focused on individual players, but due to his contribution to the lists I have compiled so far, there was one man whose goals needed commemorating: Francesco...
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He can’t do much with that pass, can he? Oh. A new top five, featuring this ridiculous goal from Zlatan Ibrahimovic against Bologna. If it was anyone else you’d think this was too lucky to include. He...
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Alessandro Del Piero
This article first appeared on The FCF The word legend is thrown around all too easily these days. You’ve heard the kind of talk, people referring to their mate as a legend because of some amusing or...
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Serie A: a more sensible approach to transfers?
George Orwell wrote that Italians are incapable of doing anything without making a deafening noise, and he kind of has a point. Italy is pretty mental, but it works in its own way. Take the transfer...
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What’s wrong with Hernanes?
Liverpool were so desperate they signed Charlie Adam and Jordan Henderson; Milan have resorted to playing Flamini and De Jong; and, last season, Manchester United were so bereft of quality they had to...
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Three views of Italian football: the supporters club, the local team, and the...
I recently hooked up with a friend who gave me some photos from a trip to Italy in 2005. We were visiting a mutual friend in Rome, via his home town of Agnone, a small town in the hills of the Molise...
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Ligue 1 and Serie A: the tables have turned, and I don’t like it.
I have no idea when the rivalry between France and Italy started. I was oblivious to it growing up despite my father’s Italian heritage. He didn’t seem bothered by the French, in fact he seemed to...
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Hunting in Threes: Signori, Rambaudi and Baiano, Foggia.
Last week’s post lamented the dwindling power of Serie A and the sickening trend of Italian clubs being outgunned in the transfer market by their French rivals (‘filled to the brim with bitterness’ as...
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Andrea Pirlo: ridiculously good at football
American sports commentators aren’t shy of throwing in a superlative or two when they get excited. One of my favourite sports documentaries is Michael Jordan’s Air Time, which includes several lengthy...
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