A Season With Verona - update

[Earl of Leven]

Nice little article about the book's 20th anniversary.

A Season with Verona, 20 years later

Tim Parks wrote his cult classic about Hellas Verona two decades ago. Where are the characters in the book now?

www.theguardian.com

 

[Sebrof61]

A poster on here has a season ticket at Verona since moving there 8 years ago

 

[trevor_steven]

I absolutely love that book.

Cheers OP.

 

[Main Stand]

The H&H podcast on this is brilliant.

 

[giogaddi]

Wonderful book.

 

[giogaddi]

The H&H podcast on this is brilliant.

I missed this. When was it roughly?

 

[ChildOfGoth]

The H&H podcast on this is brilliant.

Thanks , I’ve missed that one must look it up

 

[Main Stand]

I missed this. When was it roughly?

Thanks , I’ve missed that one must look it up

Apologies I’ve made a slight arse of this, it was solely looking at their title success in 1985.

Sorry lads!.

 

[Gazrfc]

I took a day trip to Verona when I was in Venice last year, beautiful city. Hired a couple of bikes and took a cycle up to their stadium to find it's a total eyesore of a stadium, fish markets in the car parks and that, absolutley stinking

 

[giogaddi]

Apologies I’ve made a slight arse of this, it was solely looking at their title success in 1985.

Sorry lads!.

No sweat. I'll give it a listen anyway.

 

[Main Stand]

No sweat. I'll give it a listen anyway.

It was two years ago roughly, one of the earlier No Pirlo shows.

 

[Commentator]

Remember reading that the coach roped groups of players together in training sessions, that way they learned to operate as a unit rather than individuals, always knew where their team mates were.

 

[Carlton The Bear]

I took a day trip to Verona when I was in Venice last year, beautiful city. Hired a couple of bikes and took a cycle up to their stadium to find it's a total eyesore of a stadium, fish markets in the car parks and that, absolutley stinking

Correct on both counts. Beautiful city, which I actually preferred to Venice after the obvious novelty factor wore off. But the stadium is utterly dire.

 

[DoubleWhopper]

You always noticed a Scottish saltire behind their right hand goal when they were on telly and fans were allowed.

 

[Gazrfc]

Correct on both counts. Beautiful city, which I actually preferred to Venice after the obvious novelty factor wore off. But the stadium is utterly dire.

I even said to my mrs that I preffered it to Venice also, just for the simple fact that you could hire a bike and not have to walk 30k steps a day! The stadium looks like something from a Call of Duty map

 

[BomberBrownFan]

The access Parks get is amazing.

Incredible insight into what life at a fairly middling Italian club was actually like during Serie A’s golden era; far removed from Milan and Turin.

For anyone interested in Italian football culture, Ultras by Tobias Jones is a great read.

 

[giogaddi]

Remember reading that the coach roped groups of players together in training sessions, that way they learned to operate as a unit rather than individuals, always knew where their team mates were.

Think Mourinho done that too with the inter squad before they played Barca in the semis.

 

[Hussar]

A poster on here has a season ticket at Verona since moving there 8 years ago

You would never guess from his updates on Facebook

 

[bluenosebazza]

Remember reading that the coach roped groups of players together in training sessions, that way they learned to operate as a unit rather than individuals, always knew where their team mates were.

That was Gordon Bombay and the Mighty Ducks.

 

[Wazza]

The access Parks get is amazing.

Incredible insight into what life at a fairly middling Italian club was actually like during Serie A’s golden era; far removed from Milan and Turin.

For anyone interested in Italian football culture, Ultras by Tobias Jones is a great read.

Really struggled getting in to that Ultras book, was bored by 3 chapters and never finished it.

 

[dublinbear]

The access Parks get is amazing.

Incredible insight into what life at a fairly middling Italian club was actually like during Serie A’s golden era; far removed from Milan and Turin.

For anyone interested in Italian football culture, Ultras by Tobias Jones is a great read.

Listened to a 2 part podcast on Golazo podcast on Italian Ultras, Tobias Jones was on it. Great couple of hours listening.

 

[Wazza]

Listened to a 2 part podcast on Golazo podcast on Italian Ultras, Tobias Jones was on it. Great couple of hours listening.

I listened to that and found it good, book just seemed to drag to me but it probably gets better as it goes on. The Italian part of the 1312 book is very interesting.

 

[wayoutwest]

Great book, on a similar note 'The Miracle Of Castel Di Sangro' is a good read, it details a small-town club's first ever season in Serie B.

 

[dublinbear]

Talking of Ultras.

Fans leave pig's head and three crosses on pitch of Serie C strugglers Livorno

A severed pig’s head has been left on the pitch of struggling Italian team Livorno in a serious threat to the club’s directors. The Serie C outfit are in free fall after a poor start to…

t.co

 

[northsealoyal]

A poster on here has a season ticket at Verona since moving there 8 years ago

I seriously doubted he would last 8 weeks before being deported

 

[G-Hallbear]

Have never been to the football there but Verona is an amazing place to visit, Thoroughly recommend it. A few years ago I spent an afternoon drinking and people watching at a cafe bar near the big coliseum type arena while the Mrs was hammering the credit card in the shops. Great wee place.

 

[Rev Paisley]

Great book, on a similar note 'The Miracle Of Castel Di Sangro' is a good read, it details a small-town club's first ever season in Serie B.

Was going to post the same, haven’t read the Verona book so can’t comment on it, but “The Miracle...” is the best sports book I’ve ever read.

 

[oranje-viola]

Really struggled getting in to that Ultras book, was bored by 3 chapters and never finished it.

Persevere with it, it’s not bad but obviously jumps around a lot with stories about his trips with Cosenza and the background to their curva interspersed with a variety of stories involving clubs in the rest of Italy.

Ultimately felt the book was a bit underwhelming myself and it didn’t quite get as engaging or interesting as it should have

 

[BlueFlagHigh]

I absolutely love that book.

Cheers OP.

I did too . A great book

 

[Earl of Leven]

Talking of Ultras.

Fans leave pig's head and three crosses on pitch of Serie C strugglers Livorno

A severed pig’s head has been left on the pitch of struggling Italian team Livorno in a serious threat to the club’s directors. The Serie C outfit are in free fall after a poor start to…

t.co

In Serie A not long ago of course.....one of the very few ultras groups that are still socialist.