👇🏼 🫱🏼 That’s where Milan are Henry, they’re f’ing there! Albeit a nailed on 0-0 tonight as you said on the Pod. Would gladly take that right now but let’s roll the footballing dice once more eh. Looking forward to reading the blog 👏🏼 #ForzaNapoli 🩵🤍🎲 ⚽️

We’ve got two greats playing each other tonight for #MilanNapoli. The blog is back & here I consider what makes great players great. (With some help from Diego Maradona, football tactics and Paddy Considine’s acting in Shane Meadows’ films) intheshadowofvesuvio.substack.com/p/de-bruyne-...

Great episode, loved Michele's naked schadenfreude at the Tribuna. A friend is getting me a ticket for city game so may see there, as a Romanista United fan (mainly FC now) I'll still be firmly siding with the Partonopei

74 is here! @getnapolitickets.bsky.social & I discuss: 😇 Who is the most Jesus like of Napoli's players? 🏟️ Decibel Bellini fiasco 💪 Napoli v Cagliari 🤬 ADL trolling the world? 💶 Away tickets for UCL games podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i... open.spotify.com/episode/64Bz...

New blog! I process my emotions with Cholito, Raspadori and Osimhen all leaving the club. I then look forward to the future by going back through #NapoliSorrento in detail. Please subscribe to the new substack and share!! intheshadowofvesuvio.substack.com/p/cholito-ra...

New blog! With the arrival of VMS, @sscnapolifc.bsky.social have the best goalkeeper in @seriea.bsky.social for the first time in the ADL era. To celebrate this, I look back at the legacy of goalkeeping since 2004 in Naples. intheshadowofvesuvio.substack.com/p/goalkeeper...

Napoli have really got these shirts right. Pretty rapid arrival from Italy, replica option is really high quality and is a normal fit, too. Design is beautiful and full of Neapolitan iconography when you look closely

🚨BREAKING: The last journalists working for AFP in Gaza have said they can no longer work for the news agency. They are out of energy and they are starving to death. I have never seen a statement from a news organisation like it. 🧵

Quite a few really bad career decisions in the mercato. Osimhen and Retegui among them. No point in discussing the merits of other leagues (money talks as ever) but worth emphasizing again, that the Italian top flight remains one of the best in the world. Tired of people talking down Serie A.

First blog is here! Welcome To Napoli Lorenzo Lucca I write about:- 9️⃣ the enjoyment of ‘proper strikers’ in Italy 🗣️ Uanema Jeppson and Neapolitan language 🌟 a history of Napoli ‘bombers’ 🤔 how Lucca will fit into to Conte’s side intheshadowofvesuvio.substack.com/p/lorenzo-lu...

Fantastic

🪶 Bit of news from me 🪶 In 2025/26 I’ll be writing about Napoli every week as part of the In The Shadow Of Vesuvio Substack that we’ve just launched. I’ve really missed penning pieces on calcio and Naples and hope a few of you will be glad to see me back. intheshadowofvesuvio.substack.com

72 is here! Me & @getnapolitickets.bsky.social discuss:- 👕 Our new beautiful shirts 🇧🇪 Kevin De Bruyne’s arrival 🙋‍♀️ Listener Questions 🤔 Pros and cons of Conte driven mercato 🏟️ Stadio update podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i... open.spotify.com/episode/7HtQ...

Heartening! Deserves the 🩵. Amidst euphoria of Naples for Scudetto #3 Fiorentina match I bought Kim’s FaceGame shirt in what it turned out was a v challenging size Medium. I think he left for Bayern literally the next day so gone before it turned up. Low moment though still worn (just!) with pride 🙌🏼

“McTominay isn’t idolised here but that’s not the same as not being idolised in say London. He is still 100% being assaulted every time he comes out of his house…….in a good way!” A Michele classic there 😆 Great ep as usual 🙌🏼 Kim is a majorly underrated cult hero for me. An absolute collosus! 🩵🤍

71 is here! We discuss:- 💩 71’s significance in Neapolitan culture 💶 the state of play with Osimhen 🤔 Osimhen’s Napoli legacy 🦸 What makes a Napoli mito? 🙋‍♀️ Listener questions open.spotify.com/episode/1D5H... podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...

Came out a while ago but if anyone wants to relive Napoli’s Scudetto weekend episode 70 is here:- podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i... I’m still coming down!

Omg @okwonga.bsky.social with the most perfect answer to *that* mailbag question. McFratm managing his club in Genoa is the purest @stadio.football vibration that has ever been sounded.

I’m in Ischia, otherwise known as @legalizemaradona.com’s ancestral home. Christ on a bike it is wonderful

NEW – Napoli Serie A Champions! 🔵🇮🇹🏆 Conte's Napoli secured the title this season by a single point. Here is the most-used formation, most-used 11 (by minutes) that fit it, and then the next 5 most-used players as 'subs'. Enjoy! Fans, you can pick up a print here if you wish! ➡️🛒 buff.ly/3fDCDvh

‘That’s why a state is different to a rich man or venture capitalists, however unpleasant they may be, they’re not as bad as a state and never will be.’ The Football Weekly panel discuss PSG's Champions League win. @maxrushden.bsky.social @nickybandini.bsky.social @jonawils.bsky.social

69 is here! A bonus mini pod made in Naples podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i... open.spotify.com/episode/1MVt...

No club in Europe is like Napoli. No place in Europe is like Naples. #napoli #SSCNapoli #scudetto #forzanapolisempre

Has Michele survived the night?! Hope so. Very very special to be there. Grande Henry! 👏🏼👏🏼🩵🤍🏆🥇🫶🏼

Curva B last night in Naples. The whole city feels hungover today but in a very pleasant way!

Just got home. What a night. 4 felt better than 3. Thank you Naples!

Beech trees in Pollok Country Park in Glasgow. There are few things in life as green as brand new beech leaves - perfect for a little bit of shinrin-yoku forest-bathing as it is also known. #glasgow #trees #pollokcountrypark #forestbathing

It’s been fun persuading a fair few English and Scottish folks to watch Serie A this season. The quality of coaching, drama at either ends of the table and general absurdity of the league has got them hooked - even if the days of Baggio and Vieri are long gone.

Last minute sale of some of @mogwai.scot tickets for tonight! #Mogwai secure.ticketmaster.co.uk/rs/3600616EA...

Nicolò Barella currently on course to become the first Sardinian since Lionel Messi to win the Ballon D’Or www.unionesarda.it/en/sardinia/...

Bloody Genoa! Frustrating watch again. Conte's tactics, the defensive aberrations and general lack of urgency at times. Plenty to discuss on your podcast. McTominay great again though and Gilmour impressive. At least they didn't lose.

Maybe concentrating on the defence would have been a better idea

Conte has clearly focussed on the attacking shape this week. Napoli looking so much more dynamic up front with multiple players in the box for every attack. Smart approach with all the fixtures comings against sides in the bottom half. #NapoliGenoa

Utterly, utterly incredible. One of the most dramatic football ties I've watched in almost 20 years covering this sport. A reminder of why we all fell in love with it to begin with

Italian football: actually quite good. Inzaghi the best one-off fixture manager in the world. Will win a World Cup with someone one day

Great to speak to @football-italia.bsky.social editor Lorenzo Bettoni about the success of the Scottish players in Italy this season. We talk about Adams, Gilmour, Ferguson and of course Scott McTominay. Watch on YouTube here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQgQ...

A lovely piece of writing, this.

Recording a pod if anyone has any unusual questions to ask or pizza pics to review

A big step closer after today’s result & boost psychologically to have a significantly inferior GD yet still have it come down to a one off match. Like the team who finishes 6th winning the playoffs in the Championship, free hit mentality. Permission to get excited…..🙏🏼🩵🤍

Serie A Scudetto play off is ON!! Goal difference is for premheads and losers

Red sandstone tenements and spring blossoms in the Broomhill area of Glasgow. #glasgow #spring #trees #blossom #springblossoms #tenement #glasgowtenements #architecture #architecturephotography #broomhill #glasgowtoday

Respect to my neighbour who is firing up his BBQ in sunny (but freezing) suburban Glasgow. He’s donned a retro Sampdoria shirt with ‘Souness’ on the back

C’mon ragazzi!! A scrappy win means the Scudetto playoff is on. Would be the first time since 1964 and my bones are telling that’s what is going to happen #MonzaNapoli

he has a very good case for most valuable player even if they come up just short on the scudetto, imo

What a fucking player is Scott McTominay Right through the whole season he’s been the guy who has stepped up. Scotland’s finest is Napoli’s finest!! #MonzaNapoli

Sunset on Great Western Road in Glasgow. Cont./ #glasgow #sunset #greatwesternroad #glasgowsunset #architecture #architecturephotography #glasgowatnight #nightphotography

Thoughts and prayers

When was the last time Napoli had a good second half?

Just saw Spiritualized for the first time. The played the whole of Pure Phase then Cop Shoot Cop as an encore and WOW. Still utterly amazing

I know the material reasons for the rise of fascism. I also think another reason - which doesn’t get talked about as much because it’s embarrassing that humans can be that naive - is that when you are financially comfortable but bored, abstract cruelty can give you a sense of purpose.