Former Tottenham Hotspur director Fabio Paratici has returned to the club following the end of a 30-month ban from football activity. The 53-year-old will act as joint-sporting director with Johan Lange, who has been promoted from the position of technical director. In a statement, Spurs said the pair “will lead our men’s football strategy and…
An early memory of visiting Milan involves walking through arrivals at Malpensa and being confronted by Andriy Shevchenko. Our meeting, then at least, was in portrait rather than in person. Shevchenko was the face, the masculine muse, of a monochrome Armani campaign. The poster showed him standing against a wall, pinstripe suit loosely buttoned at…
When Martin Scorsese saw Fellini’s 8½ for the first time he was a student at New York University. Upon returning home, he tried to sketch his favourite scenes from memory and then set about thinking what the film was about. “Then you realise you don’t have to because it’s very simple really,” Scorsese explained. Dreams….
The family of the late Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has agreed to sell soccer club AC Monza to U.S.-based investment firm Beckett Layne Ventures (BLV). A statement on Tuesday confirmed 80 per cent of the club’s shares will be transferred to BLV this summer, with the remaining 20 per cent to be processed by…
The most high-profile players heading for the Premier League from Europe in this transfer window have been known for months. Florian Wirtz and Jeremie Frimpong have left Bayer Leverkusen for Liverpool. Viktor Gyokeres and Benjamin Sesko have been gossip column regulars for long enough. But who are the outsiders? Who are the players who do…