Serie A

There has perhaps never been a league quite like Serie A in the nineties, Italian football the undisputed home of the game’s finest footballers and a period that evokes utter nostalgia from fans across the world.  Italy’s top division was awash with Ballon d’Or winners and all-time greats, the division …

For all the talk of the Champions League becoming a closed shop, Atalanta have punched through the door of Europe’s elite and are looking to bloody the noses of a few more heavy hitters on their way to the unlikeliest of glories. On Wednesday evening they will be taking on …

On the 22nd of May 1996, Vladimir Jugović slotted ‘that’ decisive penalty past Edwin Van Der Sar and Juventus beat Ajax to win their first ‘real’ European cup. What should be looked back on as the most joyous occasion in supporting Juve for Bianconeri faithful, is now seen as the …

Gianlugi Buffon made further history in a remarkable career this weekend, the goalkeeper setting a new record for the most ever Serie A appearances during Juventus’ win over Torino on Saturday. Buffon is rightly recognised as one of the greatest players in the history of Italian football and is one …

Due to the ageing of Luis Suarez, the over dependency on Lionel Messi and the floundering form of Frenchman Antoine Griezmann, Barcelona have long been linked with moves to bring a number of high-profile forwards to the Camp Nou. The name of Lautaro Martinez fails to go away in connection …

The scene of Faustino Asprilla’s arrival to English football is iconic stuff. Having stepped off the plane in the North East in the middle of a snowstorm in February 1996, the Colombian sported a grey fur coat to keep himself warm. For a league that had its fair share of …

Any side interested in signing Napoli’s Kalidou Koulibaly this summer will have to pay a world-record fee for a defender, with the Italian side’s president setting a price-tag of €100m for the highly-rated centre-back. Koulibaly has been strongly linked with a host of European football’s leading clubs following his impressive …

Aaron Ramsey has explained the differences between Serie A and the Premier League as the midfielder continues to adapt to life at Juventus. The Welsh international spent over a decade at Arsenal before leaving the club last summer, opting for a new challenge after signing a bumper deal with Italian …

Recent rumours linking Jeff Hendrick with a moves to AC Milan and AS Roma raised many an eyebrow across the football world.  The Italian giant and Burnley’s workmanlike midfielder appear like an unusual pair, but on second glance it doesn’t look quite as ridiculous. Hendrick is hardly a world beater, …

Even just a few weeks ago it seemed outlandish that the major football leagues in Europe could return to action anytime soon. The UK has been one of the nations worst hit by the coronavirus pandemic, Spain was similarly wracked by it, while Italy was the epicentre of it in …