Italy Archive

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    Our finest football hour? - by frog



    FIFA’s two-minute highlights package of our World Cup match with Italy last night makes us look like giants. There we are on the world’s biggest sporting stage, scoring effortlessly and early, then defending our goal like heroes from an old war movie. Holding the current world champions of football to a 1-1 draw over 94 [...] read more
    June 21, 2010 4:16 pm - 10 Comments
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    Naples’ streets of rubbish - by frog



    I haven’t written about the two metre high piles of rubbish in the streets of Napoli until now.  Aside from the Mafia involvement, the likelihood of the Italian government collapsing and the incredible visual images of a city slowly being buried in its own waste, my abiding impression is of a metaphor for the natural [...] read more
    January 22, 2008 4:15 pm - 6 Comments