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This was actually Thursday but you get the idea. Fizzy, foamy and with a complimentary track of snacks (Scoffed before even touched the 🍺!)
Historic moment for Verona’s second club as Virtus sack their coach after 40 years.
He retains his role as assistant coach, team manager and president.
A ham-fisted depiction - rendered as a faux-football sticker - of Scotland footballer Gordon Strachan trying and failing to clamber over a 'Camel Cigarettes' advertising hoarding after scoring a goal. The stylised camel on the hoarding rolls it's eyes.
9️⃣8️⃣ more days of posting a poorly drawn World Cup moment every day until the tournament kicks-off or until we forget to post one
Today: it's 1986, and Scotland's wee Gordon Strachan scores against West Germany, then tries and fails to vault the advertising hoardings in celebration. He styles it out.
One day I’m gonna do this with one of my own books!
Still an unseasonal chill in the air this morning but at least the promise of sunshine today in Verona!
Focusing instead on the courage of the resistance?
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Watched a couple of Premier League games recently and the corner kick stuff is wild.
I think it comes down to coaching and refereeing because it doesn’t seem to be so systemic in Serie A
Happy world book day to all who celebrate!
From my office window work has begun constructing the city that will become Vinitaly 2026!
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I was in a C & W bar on Broadway in Nashville - they didn’t really get “soccer”!
👀 Well look at this. It's only the lovely cover of our World Cup special issue. That's right, WORLD CUP SPECIAL.
📖Published late March.
🛒 Get in early and pre-order yours:
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Great stuff!
I’ve just bashed out a short summary of our discussion on pub culture for the Italian Wine Podcast.
PMUs an intriguing part of that landscape!
Stories like this make me smug as all hell to be deputy editor of @pelliclemag.com
@anahlcq.bsky.social is the best drinks and working class culture writer in the world right now. I said what I said.
www.pelliclemag.com/home/2026/2/...
Documentary retells the story of a community saving its village pub @teamdb.bsky.social
A couple of sitting MPs follow me so I am resharing this because I think this is a pretty darn good idea and imagine if we had something similar in the uk that helped showcase our long, rich culture of beer and brewing.
I think it’s what I love so much about going for a pint. You can’t make that shitty. Although they almost did during COVID!
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BREAKING: @EuropeanSlpr's new sleeper train from Brussels & Cologne to Zurich, Como & Milan will start 9 September. Tickets go on sale from 17 March with couchettes from €49.99, single/double/triple sleepers also available. 🥳 Press release: mcusercontent.com/5ffbd133c9ab...
This - after a public consultation that came down c95% against corporate copyright theft - is a hearty move towards this government’s spineless purchased representatives needing to be hoofed in the crotch by us all, in a big queue until they get the message.
Another 5-star review on Amazon for Verona Campione!
Please keep them coming!
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Bellisimo!
Another 5-star review on Amazon for Verona Campione!
Please keep them coming!
When breakfast included wine. 1859 Breakfast Menu of New York City Metropolitan Hotel. Hearty fare (e.g., cold tongue, stewed tripe, fried pig’s feet) – all washed down with a 1841 Chateau Margaux (offered as one of several BREAKFAST WINES).
Share of Population Who Drinks Wine and Beer in Italy, 2024. The share of wine drinkers in the north is higher than in the south. In fact, and contrary to popular assumptions about Italian drinking culture, there are more beer drinkers than wine drinkers in Puglia, Calabria, Sicilia, and Sardegna.
Donkies will fly if they ever make it back to Serie A!
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