Hakuna Matata #6: European Nations ’80 Italy 1-0 England
By Giancarlo Rinaldi Not every child gets to see their father rolling around the living room floor with his two brothers. To the outsider, it might have looked like a fight that had got out of control...
View ArticleSerie A 2011-12: Preview
Serie A was due to kick off two weeks ago, but because those poor, disenfranchised players couldn’t agree a deal for a standard contract with those mean, horrid, nasty chairmen there was a strike and...
View ArticleHakuna Matata #7: Got, got, got, need!
Yet another cracking entry in our Hakuna Matata series, Scandinavian football connoisseur Charlie Anderson has penned a reflection on something that conditioned football supporting for many of us in...
View ArticlePlayer profile: Rafael
Verona currently have a team in Serie A in the shape of Chievo, but the flying donkeys aren’t the city’s first love. Having been overtaken by their cousins and spent a long time in Serie B and Lega...
View ArticleHakuna Matata #9: The magic of the cup
By Adam Bate Childhood memories are a powerful thing. Until the age of nine I kept a scrapbook outlining the events of each game I attended. I can remember every one of those early matches and I...
View ArticleHakuna Matata #10: Peter Shilton and the cult of the replica
By Matt McMahon Italia ’90 is the first World Cup I can remember, I watched a lot of the football and I remember being allowed to stay up late for the England games, I completed my World Cup wall...
View ArticleLega Pro clubs pay the price for calcioscommese
After the 2006 ‘Calciopoli’ scandal, many – perhaps naively – felt that the Italian game was now clean and that those involved had been implicated in the trials and subsequent sentences that rocked...
View ArticleAll for nothing – Has Cristiano Doni ruined Atalanta’s Serie A campaign?
As Atalanta signed off for the winter break with a 4-1 thrashing of Cesena, coach Stefano Colantuono could look back on the season so far work with a degree of satisfaction after all he has contended...
View ArticleScotland 1-4 Italy U21s – Azzurrini cause Scotland to scream blue murder
Edinburgh 25 April 2012 Ciro Ferrara brought his young squad to a very cold Easter Road for a last friendly before they resume their qualifiers next month against Ireland. There were a number of...
View ArticleMy Sweet Sixteen – Why Serie A should reduce in size
Collapse of a system Italian football is facing a time of crisis in terms of both financial and sporting performances. Clubs are struggling in the European Cups, they have lost power in the transfer...
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