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Anglo-Italian relations
Apr. 19 | Back in 1992 West Ham looked on enviously as Sheffield United kicked off against Manchester United on a sunny day on the 15th August to start what is now the richest league in the world. The Hammers had been relegated at the end of the previous season...
Livin’ la Vida Loca
Mar. 6 | On the TBIR private jet on the way over to Rome, Danny and I tried to draw up the best derbies in Europe. Between us we have covered quite a few. The Copenhagen derby (three times at both venues), the Stockholm derby, the Spakenburg derby in Holland...
Affamato come un lupo
Mar. 6 | Match fixing, doping, prostitutes and Silvio Berlusconi – just your average week in calcio. Italian football is dogged by controversy at the highest level. But today wasn’t about just about Serie A and one of the biggest rivalries in Europe....
So that is why they are one of the richest club in the world!
Feb. 9 | The Deloitte Sports Business Group presents the Football Money League 2012 What is the most you have ever paid for a ticket for football? An official one, mind, not one from a tout. £50? Certainly not if you follow your team away from home and have...
An Englishman or three in Lille
Oct. 25 | Michael Miles takes us on a Champions league journey across the Channel. LOSC v Inter Milan – October 2011 Lyon have, without doubt, been the most successful French team of the millennium, while Paris Saint-Germain and Marseille remain the country’s...
Jeux Sans Frontières
Aug. 10 | Around six months ago I was made aware of a challenge. Now I love a challenge, especially one regarding football. But this one was formed on such a wonderful cause I could do nothing but throw my small website weight behind it. The idea? To visit...
The proudest moment of my life…apart from the birth of my daughter
Mar. 11 | I may have seen the greatest football match of my life the other week. I have supported Tottenham Hotspur my entire life, not because of any family loyalty and definitely not for any glory but mainly because of the Moss Man figure from Masters of the...
How I broke my European football weekend cherry
Mar. 4 | We all remember our first time don’t we? We all look back now with fondness on that first time, the thrill of seeing it all for the first time after years of just looking at pictures in magazines, or dare I say it on the internet. Those mistakes...
Il bello gioco ha giocato in una punta dei rifiuti
Jan. 31 | I’d always planned to end the writing for the book in an unusual destination. The original plan was that England’s visit to Kazakhstan in June would be the final chapter, but with costs rising ovr the thousand pound mark for a day trip I...
