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Gramscian Football
Tuesday, April 21st, 2009There are chilling moments in the life of any straniero when they realise that, with all the reflection, study, and will that certain ways of thinking, produced by local culture, tradition, and a very different history, will always be beyond them. These are moments, more often than not, conjured up out of hot-air when politicos [...]
Why buy Kakà when, for the same price, you could get a whole Serie A team?
Monday, January 26th, 2009This monkey has only a passing interest in football, and so found little of interest in the rumours that Brazilian star Kakà was to leave Berlusconi’s AC Milan. Little of interest until browsing the latest from La Voce, the online magazine from some of Italy’s leading economists. The site posted an intriguing article by Tito Boeri [...]
Juventus and the Lisbon Treaty
Thursday, June 19th, 2008It was inevitable that, sooner or later, someone in the Italian press/blogosphere would link Euro 2008 and the recent rejection of the Lisbon Treaty by the Irish electorate. Giordano Bruno Guerri, self-declared ‘anti-modernist’, blogger and journalist with il giornale, steps into the fray with a none-too-convincing argument on his blog.
