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CJ_covblaze

CJ_covblaze

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Sick Boy said:
Turin is a wonderful city and has a very cosmopolitan feel about it. I'm not sure why you think they'd want to kill you for being English? I've always found it very friendly!
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Been there 3 times and each one I haven't felt safe. It's due to the cowardly acts of fans from another football club.
 
Sick Boy

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Terry Gibson's perm said:
The bit I saw of Bologna was nice, Padova was very industrial, Rome was very busy and never seemed to quite down which was a bit of a shock after being in the small village of Soligo where my family come from. I went straight from the airport to the stadium when I went to the Milan derby.
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That's not far at all from where my girlfriend is from, she is from the mountains to the north of there!

The centre of Padova is very nice!
 
Terry Gibson's perm

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Sick Boy said:
That's not far at all from where my girlfriend is from, she is from the mountains to the north of there!

The centre of Padova is very nice!
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We were only in Padova on business for a day so most of the time was spent in a factory in an industrial area and a brief meal out
 
Ranjit Bhurpa

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Sick Boy said:
Turin is a wonderful city and has a very cosmopolitan feel about it. I'm not sure why you think they'd want to kill you for being English? I've always found it very friendly![/QUOTE
I had the good fortune for many years to work for a company with their HQ in Turin. My many visits centred on airport, hotel, office and somewhere for dinner. Sadly never there for the footy but still have a soft spot for Torino.
Never felt threatened there but once found a tranny sprawled on the bonnet of my hire car when finishing work late one night, giving it the come on and pushing up 'her' skirt.
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Ranjit Bhurpa

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Sick Boy said:
Haha there are a lot of transexuals in Italy. I had a similar experience to you too haha.
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It was the first and last one I encountered....as far as I know!
Local colleagues reckoned there was some connection with the Romanian travellers who lived in the man made shacks on the banks of the Po.
 
covcity4life

covcity4life

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roma go through as group winners over english champions......

really does feel like serie a is back now.

roma juve through, napoli with a big chance and if not europa, lazio and ac milan through in europa too

league is very competitive and with inter ac having big money it gices italy 5 big teams now, i have a feeling they are in for a boom like the premier league has currently.
 
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Travs

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I'd like to think so, but you know Italy is always only one small step away from chaos! Probably AC Milan going to be a casualty of overspending and unscrupulous owners...

Good to see some teams looking like they might step up and increase the competition. Fiorentina always look decent but can't quite make the jump. Sampdoria look decent this year. Bologna play great football but have the traditional "soft underbelly".... And for me, good to see Parma competing for a return to Serie A.
 
Gazolba

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I like Italian women, Italian food, Italian cars, Italian fashion/style, Italian scenery, the Italian language.
Don't care for Italian football except if they beat Germany, then I like it.
 
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Earlsdon_Skyblue1

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I love Italy. Have been to Lake Garda, Lake Como, Tuscany, Venice, Rome, Florence and many places in between and on the coast.

Rome, I must say was a pleasant surprise. For a capital city it was heaps nicer than I was expecting.

Never been to a Serie A game, but have always wanted to. I did read up a lot about the attendances dropping and I think that has been true to an extent. Something to do with modern football and attitudes towards it and the new stadiums though I think. It has been a similar story in parts of Spain.

Here is a table of the averages last season, some pretty low scorers there!

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ajsccfc

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It gets worse when viewed as a percentage too, Juventus are the only side nearing a full house and only a handful others there would go over the 50% mark. You can see why the sides want to move away from city-owned behemoths and go for the more enclosed stadiums like Juventus have and Roma have just had approved (looks a right fancy pants - Photos)
 
Gazolba

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Earlsdon_Skyblue1 said:
I love Italy. Have been to Lake Garda, Lake Como, Tuscany, Venice, Rome, Florence and many places in between and on the coast.

Rome, I must say was a pleasant surprise. For a capital city it was heaps nicer than I was expecting.

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The only places I've been to in Italy (many years ago) were Diano Marina and Portofino, both on the Italian Riviera.
The places and scenery were great, but the Italian people not very friendly.
 
Earlsdon_Skyblue1

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Gazolba said:
The only places I've been to in Italy (many years ago) were Diano Marina and Portofino, both on the Italian Riviera.
The places and scenery were great, but the Italian people not very friendly.
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I think they are just very blunt. If they don't like you, they let you know about it. Even in much of Eastern Europe it isn't that blunt!
 
Sick Boy

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Gazolba said:
The only places I've been to in Italy (many years ago) were Diano Marina and Portofino, both on the Italian Riviera.
The places and scenery were great, but the Italian people not very friendly.
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The country has become much more open to tourists and other countries over the last couple of decades. Presumably you had a go at speaking Italian?
 
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Travs

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I'm off to Florence on friday.

Original plan had been to go to Fiorentina vs Pisa.... a pretty heated derby, and a big clash at the bottom of the table.

Alas its been moved to monday night (whether for tv or due to the trouble surrounding the first match in Pisa), and thats when i'm flying back home.

Plan is now to go to watch Livorno on the saturday. I remember them being a european level team early 2000's but they're in Serie C now.

Will try and get in the Curva Nord..... i know their ultras have a notorious reputation due to their politics..... i don't particularly care for any politics, i've been in the curvas at Hellas Verona & Lazio (right), Bologna (left) and hopefully now Livorno (extreme left Russian supporters), but should be an interesting day.
 
Razzle Dazzle Dean Gordon

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Travs said:
I'm off to Florence on friday.

Original plan had been to go to Fiorentina vs Pisa.... a pretty heated derby, and a big clash at the bottom of the table.

Alas its been moved to monday night (whether for tv or due to the trouble surrounding the first match in Pisa), and thats when i'm flying back home.

Plan is now to go to watch Livorno on the saturday. I remember them being a european level team early 2000's but they're in Serie C now.

Will try and get in the Curva Nord..... i know their ultras have a notorious reputation due to their politics..... i don't particularly care for any politics, i've been in the curvas at Hellas Verona & Lazio (right), Bologna (left) and hopefully now Livorno (extreme left Russian supporters), but should be an interesting day.
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Ive been to Fiorentina and Lazio in the last few years and enjoyed both. I found it very different to the crowd experience at home, which is a big part of why i wanted to go. Having said that most of the Lazio game the chant was just Juve, Juve vaffanculo (fuck off/go fuck yourself i believe), but with lots of flags being waved.

The other thing i noticed is how far behind the retailing is over there, club shops were more like ours in the 90s for both teams (Roma's was pretty decent though).
 
ccfctommy

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BBC Alba - The Scottish Gaelic channel, Have announced they are showing eight Serie A games from now until the end of the season. I think mainly focussing on games featuring Scottish players like McTominay and Lewis Ferguson at Bologna. I think the commentary may be in gaelic but could be wrong.
 
ajsccfc

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ccfctommy said:
BBC Alba - The Scottish Gaelic channel, Have announced they are showing eight Serie A games from now until the end of the season. I think mainly focussing on games featuring Scottish players like McTominay and Lewis Ferguson at Bologna. I think the commentary may be in gaelic but could be wrong.
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I watched the Torino-Bologna game on Sunday and the commentary was a mix of English and Gaelic so I couldn't get on with it. On the massive plus side the opening credits are a thing of beauty





Oh yes
 
PaulPUSB

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ajsccfc said:
I watched the Torino-Bologna game on Sunday and the commentary was a mix of English and Gaelic so I couldn't get on with it. On the massive plus side the opening credits are a thing of beauty





Oh yes
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Oh the memories of channel 4 on a saturday morning, James Richardson with his expresso and copy of La Gazzetta dello Sport. Years of watching the likes of Ravanelli and Vialli... when they arrived in england i was like "these gods are real?"

Iv just wee'd a little
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PaulPUSB

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ajsccfc said:
First thing I did when we went to Verona years back was pick up a copy of Gazzetta I couldn't read for when we were sitting out on the piazza by the arena. My wife thought I was an idiot and she was right, but a dream fulfilled!
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No other of lifes acheivments can top this

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covcity4life

covcity4life

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ajsccfc said:
First thing I did when we went to Verona years back was pick up a copy of Gazzetta I couldn't read for when we were sitting out on the piazza by the arena. My wife thought I was an idiot and she was right, but a dream fulfilled!
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I have the same picture from when I went to watch inter play in Milan! It's a right of passage for people our age

I pay for dazn serie a pass but nice to see it on BBC alba
 
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Travs

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Razzle Dazzle Dean Gordon said:
Ive been to Fiorentina and Lazio in the last few years and enjoyed both. I found it very different to the crowd experience at home, which is a big part of why i wanted to go. Having said that most of the Lazio game the chant was just Juve, Juve vaffanculo (fuck off/go fuck yourself i believe), but with lots of flags being waved.

The other thing i noticed is how far behind the retailing is over there, club shops were more like ours in the 90s for both teams (Roma's was pretty decent though).
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Buy the best stuff straight off the ultras in the back of the stands usually.
 
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