THE PROFESSOR, THE FIREMAN AND THE BARON
It would prove to be the only league title won while all three of the ‘Gre-No-Li’ were together at Milan.
Simon Craft
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TRENTA: LUTHER BLISSETT IN MILAN
The parallels between last season’s Premier League Champions and the 1983 Watford side are undeniable.
Scott Salter
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“He was a nice Afro-Caribbean guy…his unlucky season even turned him into the target of racist jokes. The LBP is kind of his revenge on stupidity”
Chris Etchingham
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In a league noted for the miserly nature of its defences, especially during the heyday of catenaccio as espoused by the likes of Rocco and the Inter Milan sides of Helenio Herrera, the scoring exploits of Prati are worthy of praise.
Gerard Farrell
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BERGKAMP, INTER AND ITALIAN RELIGION
‘’We found him rather cold. Everyone in the team tried, but he was quite cold.’’
Emmet Gates
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Like many things it began with the Beatles.
Jason Rothman
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He defined the Libero role in the team which created the legend of Catenaccio, and yet this was no ordinary team, no ordinary Italian defence.
Rob Fielder
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HELL ON EARTH: JIMMY GREAVES IN MILAN
“I can pinpoint the day, the hour, the minute, the second that I doomed myself to life as an alcoholic."
Adam Bate
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HOW LA GAZZETTA DELLO SPORT CHANGED MY LIFE
Giving up la Gazzetta in a World Cup year was always going to be tough, and I’m not ashamed to admit that I failed miserably.
James Taylor
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THE IBWM MILAN SPOTIFY PLAYLIST
We are the goon squad, and we're coming to town.
John Dobson
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NORDAHL-NYERS: A RIVALRY THAT SHOOK MILAN
What made the rivalry between Nyers and Nordahl entertaining was their stark differences and some curious similarities.
Somnath Sengupta
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THE REVOLUTION WILL BE TELEVISED: THE FUTURE ACCORDING TO SILVIO BERLUSCONI, 1991
"It's economic nonsense that a club such as Milan might be eliminated in the first round. A European cup that lasts the whole season is what Europe wants."
Keir Radnedge
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The football brain that made Boban's name in Milan was flawless.
Chris Nee
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IL DERBY DELLA MADONNINA - A VISUAL HISTORY
Named after the tiny gold Madonna that sits atop Il Duomo’s tallest spire, the Milanese derby is a keenly contested and observed fixture in the Serie A calendar well known throughout the world.
James Taylor
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HERBERT KILPIN AND THE ANGLICISATION OF ROSSONERI
Over 100 years later, the legacy of this butcher’s son from Nottingham lives on in one of the world’s biggest and most successful football teams.
Greg Lea
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Mussolini’s presence at matches, accompanied by his sons and various members of the hierarchy, only added to the excitement of Italy’s progress.
Simon Martin
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WHEN INTER WERE KINGS OF EUROPE
It's hard to fathom that six years have passed since a beaming Javier Zanetti thrust the Champions League trophy above his head and let out a scream that reverberated all the way to the Piazza Duomo.
Max De Luca
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SEBASTIANO ROSSI: MILAN'S MR UNDERRATED
The failure to ever make an appearance under any Italian coach will remain a mystery.
Richard Hall
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THE MAKING OF A MYTH: LEEDS UNITED IN MILAN, 2000
The result felt like a milestone. They had planted their flag on the moon, and were here to stay.
Thomas Barrett
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‘It was a political gamble and it came off. Thanks, not to the politicians, but to the twenty-two players who took part’.
Matt McGinn
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Milan is like a human being, a city of radical opposites, blurring each other out to find some balance.
Salvatore Pagano
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Part Brutal angles and exposed concrete undercarriage, part Modernist sweeping curves and cylinders, La Scala del Calcio (or San Siro) is a structure as complex and contradictory as life itself.
Paul Mortimer
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CARLO, CARAVAGGIO AND COMPOSITION
Although he was living five centuries after Caravaggio and working in an entirely different medium, the principles that made the Baroque artist's work so enduring and enthralling are the same principles that made Ancelotti's midfield so exhilarating.
Tom Mason
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Just as the public loved Caravaggio, Mourinho was loved at Chelsea for winning their first league title in 50 years and adored at Inter for delivering the first European Cup since the era of Grande Inter.
David Forrest
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