Introduction
Issue 42: Editor’s Note – Jonathan Wilson
Jonathan Wilson’s Editor’s Note from Issue Forty Two
Tournaments
Homecoming – Jonathan Wilson
Euro 2020 was a surprisingly bright tournament that, for good and ill, celebrated a returning normality
The Two Cultures – Morten Glinvad
Kasper Hjulmand and the job of reconciling Denmark’s divided footballing identity
A Strange Kind of Glory – Tim Vickery
Lionel Messi has an international trophy at last, but it came in the weirdest of circumstances
Photo Essay
A Coming Home – Stuart Roy Clarke
Stuart Roy Clarke photographs during Euro 2020 (with a little help from his friends Jose & Dan, Nick & Natalie)
Italy In The War
The Birth of the Legend – Nicola Ferrero
The creation and destruction of Torino’s five-time title winners
Son of the Father – Paolo Vezzola
Sandro Mazzola on his Superga, his father and living up to the family name
Football and Fascism – John Foot
From the very beginning Mussolini understood the soft-power importance of sport
Opposite Sides – John Irving
The parallel tragedies of Raffaele Jaffe and his former protege Luigi Barbesino
The Ironic Little Laugh – Simone Pierotti
Football, scepticism and the battle for survival in Tuscany during the War
The Reserve Net – Alberto Facchinetti
Gip Viani and the development of catenaccio at Salernitana
Wandering Rocks – John Irving
Throughout Italy, careers were shaped and destroyed by the War
Theory
Mentors – Ben Welch
How players are shaped by the environment in which they grow up
