(Or if the World Cup had kept 1-11 numbering in force) By Jim Hearson 2006: Italy 1 France 1 (aet, Italy won 5-3 on penalties)...
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There have been seven World Cups since the kit-design explosion of the early 1990s and we have decided to transpose the beaten finalists’ designs on...
Few ‘regular’ strips have had their only outing at a World Cup finals and certainly not many as aesthetically pleasing as this one. Italy’s second...
(Or if the World Cup had kept 1-11 numbering in force) By Jim Hearson We’re back with more renumbering of World Cup winners and, to...
In 1995, Serie A introduced squad numbering and this was the Milan squad that would go on to win the Scudetto – the sixth and...
Some self-indulgence this week as, rather than dealing with the many fine requests in the inbox, I’ve reacted to the news that Italy will wear...
A long-overdue return for this series – we had intended to get this one done while all of the relevant countries were still in Euro...
Thanks to Riccardo Giannini for his assistance In two of their four Euro 2020 games to date – against Switzerland and Austria – Italy have...
By Jim Hearson So… the team of players I’d have liked to see wearing 24, 25 or 26 in my last blog didn’t quite come...
By Tom Dean Paul Gascoigne in the number 8, Marco van Basten in the number 12, Fernando Torres in the number 9 – there are...