As the new president and technical director of Club Italia, Claudio Ranieri has embarked on a bold mission to rekindle Italy’s passion for football by overhauling the country’s youth development system. The experienced coach, famous for his performances at Roma, Chelsea and Leicester City, is determined to tackle a key issue: Italy’s lack of technical
In the mid-2000s, Guardian Weekend magazine ran a regular feature called “Writers’ Rooms”. As a secretly aspiring writer (is there even another kind of writer?) I couldn’t get enough of looking at photos of book-lined studies furnished with beautiful antique desks. These images seemed to represent literary success as well as the key to it.
ICh, on a European holiday, you get nervous greeting people – should you kiss? how often? – Leave a Comment on Dutch theologian Desiderius Erasmus. Visiting England in 1499, he found a nation of enthusiastic kissers. “Wherever you go, you are welcomed with kisses by all hands; when you take leave you are dismissed with