Alasdair Mackenzie

Freelance sports journalist based in Rome since 2018.

[Alasdair Mackenzie @aksmackenzie]

Huge thanks to @FourFourTwo for giving me the chance to write the piece I had always hoped to write - a World Cup preview for Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏆

🤝 Featuring exclusive in-depth interviews with Andy Robertson, Ryan Christie & Lewis Ferguson as we return after 28 years!

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Read the full story here:

#Como #SerieA #Fabregas #ChampionsLeague #UCL
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Cesc Fabregas is one of the hottest properties in European football after guiding Como from Serie B to the Champions League in 3 years.

For @TimesSport, a profile of Cesc the coach featuring Liam Kerrigan, who played under him in Serie B, and veteran Como journalist Nicola Nenci

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📈 From physio in a bar to ousting Juve & Milan
🔥 Cesc's impact: "Everything went to a level never seen before"
💰 Rich owners - but money well spent
😡 Shirt pulls, absent Italians - how Fabregas ruffled feathers
🤔 Nenci on why "he would walk to Barcelona or Arsenal tomorrow"

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Cesc Fàbregas: Idolised by squad, envied (and disliked) by peers

The 39-year-old is all-powerful at Como and has led them from Serie B to Champions League, but would walk tomorrow if Barcelona or Arsenal came calling

Read more ⬇️

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Another Serie A season in the books. My eighth (!!) here in Rome, no idea where the time went. This one was a hell of a ride...

Here's @adamsummerton and I picking our player, coach, signing, youngster and team of the season for TNT Sports 🇮🇹⚽️

https://t.co/ZdEiXpB2yT

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Final night of the season.

Roma, Milan, Juventus and Como fighting for two Champions League spots, while at the other end Cremonese and Lecce try to avoid the final relegation place.

Five simultaneous games, a million permutations. Could be fun...

https://t.co/K9WgVG2ViI

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Two CL spots and the final relegation place will be decided over 5 simultaneous kos in Serie A tomorrow night...

🔥 How Vardy rekindled Cremonese hopes
🤔 Could there be a relegation playoff?
🏆 Breakdown of the top 4 race
🗳 Vote for your predictions
https://t.co/fn06va7gWt

[Alasdair Mackenzie @aksmackenzie]

Two CL spots and the final relegation place will be decided over 5 simultaneous kos in Serie A tomorrow night...

🔥 How Vardy rekindled Cremonese hopes
🤔 Could there be a relegation playoff?
🏆 Breakdown of the top 4 race
🗳 Vote for your predictions
https://t.co/fn06va7gWt

[Lazio Lounge 🎙 @Lazio_Lounge]

🆕️ NEW POD!

@VittorioCampa & @aksmackenzie discuss...

😡 Rome Derby to forget
🚬 Is this the end for Sarri?
🤔 What now for Lotito protests?
🤞 Major summer rebuild needed

https://t.co/j5jwbwvcFg

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Final At the Games of the season: the Rome Derby.

A weird one with Lazio fans absent and a stupidly early kick-off, followed by a big win for Roma in the CL race.

Joined by @T_Daley for this one, balancing my depression with his ruthless joyful cackling
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Wrote a few weeks ago about how even with Verona going down, Bowie could put his hand up for the World Cup squad with their run-in.

Now scored 3 in 6 games, last two vs Juventus and Inter. Probably too late but must have Clarke thinking. Roma on the final day...

[Hellas Verona FC @HellasVeronaFC]

91’ | GOOOL DI KIERON!

La pareggiamo nel recupero con il solito Bowie 🟨🟦

#InterVerona 1-1

#DaiVerona #SerieAEnilive

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Report from the Olimpico, where Mancini sent Roma into 4th thanks to Juve's defeat. Beating Verona on the final day will now send them back to the #UCL for first time in seven years.

The Lazio end was left empty, and they just need this season to end...
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The view ahead of kick-off...

#RomaLazio

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This way for live updates of a unique Rome Derby from the Olimpico...

#RomaLazio

https://t.co/n2pPiYd0xr

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Message from an empty Curva Nord as the stadium boycott protest against Lazio owner Claudio Lotito continues:

"Dignity and respect are worth more than a derby"

#RomaLazio

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Roma fans stream past the tennis stadium at Foro Italico towards the Olimpico for the earliest Rome Derby ever. Midday ko, decided Thursday night.

With it four other games with CL ramifications. A total mess, let's hope a good game comes from it at least. No Lazio fans today.

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At the Games from a noisy Olimpico as Inter beat Lazio to claim the double in the Coppa Italia final.

Featuring epic choreographies, a bit of Sarri-spotting, and plenty of fireworks off the pitch but not on it in a one-sided game

@SerieATotal
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Inter are Coppa Italia champions and the domestic double is theirs 🏆🏆

Thoroughly deserved and never in doubt, did the damage in the first half and didn't look back.

An incredible achievement from Cristian Chivu in his debut season not only at Inter but as a senior coach

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Coppa Italia final. Lazio fans back for one night only...

Season-saving trophy and European football on the line for Lazio

Inter chasing a rare domestic double, their first since Mourinho's treble 16 years ago

Still one of the great nights on the calcio calendar.

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HT Lazio 0- 2 Inter

Inter in cruise control, goals from Thuram and Martinez give them a deserved lead that it's almost impossible to see them losing.

Eerily similar to Saturday, this. Lazio haven't laid a glove