The English players who came to Serie A during its 1990s pomp
Published: 18:39 EDT, 27 March 2018 | Updated: 04:19 EDT, 28 March 2018 All this week Sportsmail will be celebrating Italian football in the 1990s, in the build-up to BT Sport's new documentary on the glory days of Serie A. ADAM SHERGOLD remembers the Englishmen who tried their luck in the then greatest league in the world. For a generation of football fans in the 1990s, Channel Four's coverage of Italian football was their ticket to an exotic and stylish form of the game so different from unsophisticated English football. With their Saturday morning highlights programme Gazzetta Football Italia and live coverage of Serie A matches on a Sunday, Channel Four would regularly pull in three million viewers at its peak. Their decision to broadcast Italian matches was inspired by Paul Gascoigne's transfer from Tottenham to Lazio in 1992, plus an enduring English interest in all things Italian from the 1990 World Cup. Paul Gascoigne celebrates his famous goal for Lazio against Roma in the der...
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