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Pro Vercelli: Stalking Catastrophe with Hardcover Nonfiction, Part II
Note: The following is Part Two of an excerpt from the bestselling Pro: How a Small-Town Team Defied the Odds and Conquered the World of Soccer, by an unnamed reporter from worldsoccer.com, which was...
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Pro Vercelli: No Title, No Leash
I’m not going to spend a lot of time crying about what a tragedy last season was. We won the European Cup. Yes, we lost our streak of consecutive Serie A titles and got blown out by A.C. Milan, but we...
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Pro Vercelli: Comets on Commas
I spent €125,000,000 on one player during the January transfer window. Meet Alessandro Polenta, 23-year-old Italy left winger, ex of Barcelona, and in my estimation, The Best Player In The World....
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Pro Vercelli: 14 Goals in Two Acts
Reset: Spring collapses into summer, and we’re hanging on in Serie A, three points behind Inter and even with Milan but with two games in hand over both. We’ve just played our Champions League...
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Pro Vercelli: Earthquakes Are Anecdotes
Remember how we never win a match at the San Siro? And how, not counting the Champions League final in 2020, which was against Manchester United and thus not exactly at the San Siro, we haven’t done so...
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Pro Vercelli: The Boneyard, Part I
This is a story about an honest, fair-minded, and well-meaning football club, and how they were pushed to the limit by a group of thugs, cheats, and bullies. It’s an old story. It’s a story that...
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Pro Vercelli: The Boneyard, Part II
Before the climax, the anticlimax. Battered beyond the point of collapse by Roma’s thug tactics, we crawled toward the end of the league season leaving bloody handprints all over the linoleum. If we...
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Pro Vercelli: The Boneyard, Part III
I thought about just posting the screenshot of the match report with no commentary, under the theory that what you fill in with your own imagination would be more intense than anything I could...
View ArticlePro Vercelli: The End, Or Is It
A new version of Football Manager is released today, which makes this, in my house at least, a time of hushed reflection. The old era is passing away, the new era is rising up before us. Everything we...
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