If you do not learn from history, Zlatan Ibrahimovic will force you to repeat it: How Milan and their ageless talisman became unlikely title contenders
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Milan + Ibra's incredible run has shook me out of a three year football writing hiatus. Check it out.
Hey Sam you don’t seem as interested in Serie A as you used to be
Stories like this have crushed any remaining hope I ever had for the restorative nature of Italian football
📰 @BilbaoHiria: Iraola reportedly turned down Milan’s offer. According to sources close to the coach, he was said to be ‘surprised’ that ‘a club with the historical stature of Milan has only one-third of the transfer budget offered by Crystal Palace.
Everyone is always rooting for you. Your parents want you to be a great son. Wife wants you to be a great husband. Your boss wants you to be a slam dunk hire. Every first date you’ve ever been on they’ve been rooting for you to get laid. Every time you started to tell a joke people hoped it would have a hilarious punch line. Your proximity to anyone is a reflection of themself, meaning the deck is never stacked against you, and your failures are completely your own
Pickford; James, Guehi, Burns, O’Reilly; Rice, Anderson; Saka, Bellingham, Gordon; Kane - is my guess?
England will be functional, and tough to watch. Tuchel may be astute but he’s squeezed a lot of life out of this England squad with TAA/Palmer/MGW all missing out.
🚨 BREAKING: Antonio Conte has decided to LEAVE Napoli at the end of the season, it’s over.
Conte made his decision and informed the president De Laurentiis already one month ago.
There will be no exit fee, Conte will leave without severance pay and without any agreement elsewhere.
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Real Madrid deserve this. They hardly defend, they don’t track back, they don’t work hard out of possession and they bitched and moaned when a coach tried to get them to defend as a unit. I hope Bayern win 9-0
I’m taking this opportunity to coin the nickname Miniesta for this little prodigy thank you in advance message me for promotional and trademark details
🎙️Antonio Conte🗣️
“Manage the National team? If I were the president of the Federation, I would put myself among the candidates for many reasons. I have a contract for another year. At the end of the year, I'll meet with the president” (ADL)
Sounds like he’s nominating himself
BREAKING: The Chicago Bulls have dismissed executive vice president of basketball operations Arturas Karnisovas and general manager Marc Eversley, sources tell ESPN.
ESPN sources: Giants All-Pro defensive tackle Dexter Lawrence has requested a trade and he will not be participating in the team’s off-season workout program that opens Tuesday.
Lawrence and the Giants have been through two off seasons attempting to negotiate a contract reflecting his value to the Giants over the last three years, but there has not been any progress, per sources.
Italian football, as we remember it, is now as tangible a thing as those grainy videos of yesteryear that nostalgia mining social media accounts use to sift through the bones of a once great sporting institution.
Italy’s Azzurri decline is just one of the many microcosms of a dilapidated footballing culture. The stadia, the fiscal mismanagement, the inability to compete on a global scale for media market shares, TV money, the provincial approach to league development, the racism.. sigh.
As someone who has followed Serie A in varying degrees during the period of its sharpest decline, it is hard to see any light at the end of the tunnel without complete and total reform in almost every facet.