Getting back into Italian football in the last twelve or so months, I have noticed that the Italian top flight has been embraced by a greater number of North Americans. Footballers have been making the crossing to the peninsula for a few decades now. Alexi Lalas called Padova home for a few years in the […]

Posted on August 2nd, 2024 by scott
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This halloween five of my friends, my brother Paul (my best-man) and myself set out from Edinburgh to Milan for my stag do. The primary objective was to enjoy ourselves and importantly for me to catch my first ever live Serie A game. I grew up watching Italian calcio, I’d watch Channel Four’s Football Italia show religiously […]

Posted on November 26th, 2015 by scott
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With Yohan Cabaye vying for more first team football at Paris Saint-Germain, winter transfer talk surrounding the French internationalist has reached boiling point.  With that in mind, I thought I’d look at various options that could be open to the midfielder.  Manchester United: Louis van Gaal’s squad are still missing a midfielder or two. With […]

Posted on November 14th, 2014 by scott
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Five years ago this month I was in Frascati, just outside Rome. It was a place I’d never heard of, but my brother and his fiancee at the time had been and fell in love with the town. So they decided to get married there. I was very privileged to be asked to be my […]

Posted on August 19th, 2014 by scott
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