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To be fair you do sound like a hysterical bellend though...

If we don't get a "good" crowd for this (20000+) then we can only blame ourselves as a fan base. Everyone wanted a premier league team and we've got one. Would people be crying about £22 if it was Man Utd or Liverpool? No, they'd be creaming themselves. Fairweather support in full effect again...

Another European competition utterly ruined by UEFA meddling, greed and incompetence...

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...

I'd be very surprised if you couldn't get tickets on the weekend of the match. To save any hassle it's possibly worth looking at the likes of viagogo and seeing what they're going for (but add £20 quid or so to the advertised rate, as once you get through to paying, the fees etc get added on).

I will certainly concede that Milan is a very gritty city, and certainly not the rich paradise that gets portrayed most of the time. But most large Italian cities are very similar... stunningly beautiful in parts, but very chaotic and rough around the edges. You'll be in for a bit of a shock if...

Yes the friendships are a bit strange, but not unique to Italy... Was reading in my above-mentioned book about Sampdoria (bearing in mind my still fairly limited grasp of Italian) it seems they had a friendship with Juventus for part of the 80's and 90's... I had always thought that Juve were...

I've heard the rivalry is pretty intense between north and south. Especially from the heavily political fan bases like Hellas Verona. And also the Catania vs Palermo Derby, didn't someone get killed a few years ago. I had hoped to get over for Livorno vs Pisa this year, and Atalanta vs Hellas...

Not been to Turin but would like to go to Supergra and also see a match. Intended to last time, but went down to Genoa for the day instead. I really like Milan. It's not massively scenic in the same way as Rome/Florence/Verona, but it's still pretty buzzing, easy to get around, the train links...

Yes possibly, but what more can we really ask for. A local premier league side. We really do seem to be the epitome of fair weather fans. Always harping on about our massive fanbase, and getting a premier league side up at the Ricoh, now we're moaning that it's not a glamorous enough premier...

I don't think we're really in a position to be moaning that we've "only got Stoke" in the cup. They're 3 divisions above us and relatively local for god's sake... Yeah it's not a Wolves/B'ham/Villa but it's far better than it could've been. To be absolutely honest, as much as I'd have loved to...

Go for it mate. I'm sure Sick Boy can be equally helpful as a former/current resident, but I can definitely help out from a "tourist" point of view...

Definitely about sitting in the Tabacchi Bar with an "arranchia" at 8am reading the 48 page Gazzetta special on the upcoming big game! I have a fantastic hardback book charting the history of the Sampdoria Ultras. 300 pages of fantastic old photos, tickets, newspaper reports, etc, up until...

CJ you're obviously quite a well travelled football fan, so have no intention of abusing you, and your opinion is as valid as the next man, but got to add my weight to the argument for Italian football. The standard as mentioned above... Juve, Roma, Napoli... Inter on the way back. The likes...

Possible top 50 tomorrow but after today's exertions I'll be happy,with just a pb. Oh we won't win the cross country. I think 6th last year (of 16 teams). Loughborough seem to be perennial winners, I don't know what they're feeding them over there. Warwick Uni are a dark horse this year, came...

Thank you. Was tough this afternooon, we are in Div1 of the B'ham league, and it is arguably the strongest league in the country. A lot of local teams in the top division.... Godiva, Kenilworth, Leamington, Warwick Uni... and then some top clubs like Tipton, Wolves & Bilston, City of Stoke...

Running for Godiva in the Birmingham League Cross-Country in Stoke on Trent. Pissing it down on the way up the M6 at the moment. Also racing tomorrow in Shropshire, so Monday will be a write-off...

It's a progress-able group but it's certainly not a walk in the park. Belgium clear favourites, and Tunisia will be no pushover. Radio 5 last night you would think we're already in the quarter-finals. Do the media never learn. If we were to get Colombia in the 2nd round we'd get trounced, and...

Correct!

Dean Emerson played Sunday football for one of the Cov pubs, possibly the Rose as mentioned above, but I'm not exactly sure. I was playing for the Cherry Tree at the time (very early 2000's) and came up against him in the middle. Bugger me, his first touch was amazing and you could tell he was...