... Serie A table shows a gap of 11 points between joint ninth Fiorentina and Torino on 54 and 11th-place Sassuolo on 43. There are just eight points between Sassuolo and relegated Crotone in 18th place. This ...
Regional events will take place in Blackpool, Manchester, Darlington, Coventry and London in conjunction with local supporters’ groups
5 September ~ Supporters Direct are holding a series of events ...
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With Leonardo Bonucci and Dani Alves gone, and Alex Sandro potentially on his way, cracks are showing in the champions from which Napoli could benefit
16 August ~ Serie A begins ...
... goals were scored in Serie A in 2016-17, an average of 2.96 per game. An analysis of the matches between the top five (Juventus, Roma, Napoli, Atalanta and Lazio) and the bottom seven (Chievo, Bologna, ...
... extraordinary is happening in Serie A. It is only January and yet over half the teams are already playing end-of-season matches. The top eight, from Juventus on 48 points to Fiorentina on 33, are playing ...
Only Napoli and Roma could come close to the eventual Double winners
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23 May ~ Though we did not know it at the time, the Serie A title race was actually decided on October ...
31 January ~ It’s the Milan derby tonight as inconsistent AC, sixth in Serie A, face rivals Inter, whose title challenge has stuttered over recent weeks. When this derby took place in November 1989 it ...
Events on the pitch in Italy were overshadowed by a bribery scandal involving several top clubs. Matthew Barker looks back on a memorable season in Serie A The long-term significance The fallout from ...
... the 1991 Serie A was the simplest format since the establishment of the competition 20 years previously. Story of the season The title was Sao Paulo's third, following 1977 and 1986 triumphs. They ...
... In 1950-51 Serie A featured nine players from Denmark and 13 from Sweden. Seven of the latter had been gold medallists at the 1948 Olympics, including a trio who went on to play for AC Milan: midfielders ...
... n Serie B by Avellino. Four teams were promoted, as Serie A was expanded to 18 clubs. For the record books Diego Maradona was top scorer on 15 goals, followed by his team-mate Careca with 13. Milan’s ...
Verona were the last team outside the provinciale to win a Scudetto. But, as Luca Ferrato explains, referees had a big say The long-term significance This was the last time to date that the Serie A title ...
... the most sorry. The long-suffering fans of Genoa who, still bleary-eyed from celebrating their return to Serie A after ten years, discovered that the club had been accused of match-fixing. Or maybe the ...
... media age of journalism, where every complex issue is watered down to a series of polar viewpoints. More telling was Mohammed’s allusion to that ancient fallacy: with all football fans being so inevitably ...
... Norwegian also became something of a cult figure, chiefly thanks to a series of pile-driving early goals delivered with his sledgehammer of a left foot, and through the Kop’s subsequent appropriation of ...
... t in recent years. Able to leave the Toppserien (top tier of women’s football in Norway) for the German Frauen-Bundesliga when she was still a teen before moving down to Lyon, Hegerberg has experienc ...
... Netflix released First Team, a documentary following Juventus’ 2017-18 campaign, while Manchester City have just launched an Amazon Prime series. Red Bull, meanwhile, harnessed the power of their numerou ...