Category: Italy
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Frosinone 0 Torino 0
Saturday 10th December 2023 – Serie A – Stadio Benito Stirp – Frosinone, Italy Frosinone, like many provincial towns in Italy, enjoys a stunning location. Surrounded on three sides by the Ernici and Lepini mountains, in what is known as the Valle Latina (“The Latin Valley”), there’s few better vistas on a sunny day that the…
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Ternana 2 FeralPisalo 1
Saturday 9th December 2023 – Serie B – Stadio Libero Liberati, Terni, Italy I’m all for clubs being different, but Ternana Calcio, currently in Serie B, perhaps take the individuality to extremes. One of the club’s nicknames is I Rossoverdi – the Red and Greens. I can’t think of one other side that can lay claim…
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Como 1907 3 Ternana 1
Sunday 13th May 2023 2pm – Serie B – Stadio Guiseppe Sinigaglia, Como It takes just as long to get to Como from London as it does Manchester and based on the state of our railway infrastructure, invariably costs less. So whilst you could enjoy the delights of Old Trafford and its leaky roof, or…
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US Cremonese 0 Fiorentina 2
Task number one was to find Cremonese on the map. Well, you can’t. They hail from the city of Cremona, Lombardy, not to be confused with the town of Crema, Lombardy, just a twenty minute drive up the road. Task number two – find a suitable game to attend – with a relatively small capacity…
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Udinese 1 Hellas Verona 1
Having taken more than a reasonable amount of wrong terms on our walk, we finally arrived and did the customary “window shopping” of the merchandise stands outside the ground. Either the Udinese fans were fickle or it was the trend in these parts to buy merchandise for a host of other clubs when you came…
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Calcio Padua 1 Pordenone 1
We parked the question until we had indulged in lunch and then approached a few locals, who we guessed were going to the game and asked. It was a little awkward and I’m sure a few may have thought we were angling for a lift (we were) but the overall consensus was that everyone’s mate,…
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Torino 0 Spezia 1
Being winter sport season, flights were plentiful to Turin, meaning a day return was less than £50 when originally booked. Yes, it was a 3.30am start for the 6.20am flight, and yes I had to endure a full flight back at 8.30pm with groups sharing videos of their mogul-jumping, off-piste gnarliness (I am just jealous…
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Juventus 2 Inter Milan 0
Sunday 6th November 2022 8:45pm – Serie A – The Allianz Stadium, Turin The final game in the Italian footballing weekend was a hour train ride, according to the schedule from Milan Centrale to Turin Porto Nuova and a visit to watch what has been named the Derby D’Italia by the media. No idea why…
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AC Monza 2 Hellas Verona 0
Sunday 6th November 2022 3pm – Serie A – Stadio Brianteo, Monza Day two of the weekend and the sun was shining, whilst the rain continued to fall back in England. Naturally breakfast involved the smallest possible cup of coffee and a dirty look when I asked the waiter if they could rustle up a…
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AC Milan 2 Spezia 1
This may seem a little hard to believe but a ticket for the game versus Spezia on Saturday night cost LESS than entry at the Dripping Pan. Whilst the most expensive seats, almost within touching distance of the multi-millionaire players go on sale for hundreds of Euro, a seat in the third tier for this…
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Brescia 1 Ascoli 1
Brescia to me means Roberto Baggio, wearing the famous blue shirt with the white chevron. The Divine Ponytail played for Brescia Calcio for four seasons at the end of his career, back in 2004, making nearly 100 appearances as the club enjoyed an extended spell in the top division, the club so grateful that they…
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Team Altamura 0 SSD Casarano 3
Sunday 9th October 2022 3pm – Serie D Group H – The Campo Comunale Tonino d’Angelo, Altamura A weekend away in Italy wouldn’t be the same without some calcio at some point. Yes, there’s the beautiful scenery, the stunning architecture, the amazing food and the followers of fashion, but you can get that all in…
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US Salernitana 2 Empoli 2
Monday 6th September 2022 – Serie A – Stadio Arechi, Salerno Naturally, it was a complete coincidence that there was a game on relatively* close by when we were holidaying on the Amalfi Peninsula. Whilst I have been guilty on many occasions of combining work/family trips, on this occasion it was down to the luck…
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Argentina 3 Italy 0 – Finalissima
The Lionel Messi show was in full effect – all we needed was a goal and had it not been for Donnarumma, the Argentinian captain would have surely obliged
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Five things from….England 1 Italy 2
it’s 11pm…people have been drinking for a few hours and they need something to keep them awake. Surely the BBC Sport producers must have done an audition with Neville? What he says is all true and knowledgeable but there is absolutely no passion in his voice. Even the shipping forecast is more exciting than his…
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