Luke Taylor
@luketaylortcd.bsky.social
Writer & Creative. Calcio aficionado. Italian food, culture & history. Editor-in-Chief @ FORZA CALCIO newsletter. Campari and Italodisco enthusiast. https://linktr.ee/luketaylortcd
Really sad to see that Milan and Italy legend Franco Baresi has died. A one-club icon. Sit tibi terra levis. www.rainews.it/articoli/202...
Franco Baresi è morto. A 66 anni se ne va la leggenda del Milan e del calcio italiano
Ha legato indissolubilmente la sua intera carriera professionistica al Milan, diventandone un simbolo assoluto di lealtà e leadership. In segno di riconoscenza, l'AC Milan ha ritirato per sempre la ma...
rainews.it
The latest paid exclusive from the newsletter landed last night. It focuses on the story behind Livorno, looking at the city’s history and the culture on the terraces and how they define the club. £3.50 per month to get access to the archive. forzacalcionewsletter.substack.com/p/the-story-...
The Story Behind: Livorno
A long-form deep dive essay exploring the club’s history, culture and story.
forzacalcionewsletter.substack.com
Your weekly calcio briefing is live now. The Dispatch is FIGC and Azzurri heavy this week, as expected. Malago, Pirlo, Mancini. It’s all in there. Curva culture is, too. Read now forzacalcionewsletter.substack.com/p/the-calcio...
The Calcio Dispatch: Over before it started
Your weekly 5-minute briefing on Italian football.
forzacalcionewsletter.substack.com
Sharing this again as I only saw / posted it last night during a small sporting event that was distracting readers! I've always been fascinating by attempts to reverse enclosure: privatising a common is so easy, doing the opposing is exceptionally tough: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
‘Liberate the lidos!’ Who will win the war over Italy’s private beaches?
Almost all of the sandy stretches on the country’s 8,000km of coastline are run for profit. Now ‘free beach’ campaigners are fighting back against the mafia, the military and those profiteering from s...
theguardian.com
Your weekly briefing on Italian football will at 6pm this evening. This week’s Dispatch looks at the Guardiola news, transfers and the return of calcio. Plus: some lower league bits, and a bit of Curva Culture, too. Sign up to get it direct: forzacalcionewsletter.substack.com/subscribe
The Paolo Maldini Era. This week’s FORZA CALCIO looks at the new chapter for Italian football and what appointing Maldini means for the country. Read now. forzacalcionewsletter.substack.com/p/the-maldin...
Your briefing will land in inboxes at 6pm tomorrow. This week's Calcio Dispatch explores Paolo Maldini's new job, Arthur Atta signing for Fiorentina and Ederson's ongoing saga. Curva Culture and some lower league stuff, too. Sign up: forzacalcionewsletter.substack.com/subscribe
The Story Behind: Sampdoria A long-form deep-dive essay exploring the club’s history, culture and story. Subscribe for just £3.50 per month. Live now. forzacalcionewsletter.substack.com/p/the-story-...
The Story Behind: Sampdoria
A long-form deep dive essay exploring the club’s history, culture and story.
forzacalcionewsletter.substack.com
The Calcio Dispatch has landed. Malago, Jonathan David, Dusan Vlahovic and…Ronaldinho? Get briefed on everything that happened in Italian football over the last week. Read now: forzacalcionewsletter.substack.com/p/the-calcio...
Long-read published today. It's about the year I spent hanging out with an amateur drug lord in Ferrara. Such a fascinating, complicated character: www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ju...
‘I’m not a person who puts up with rudeness’: unpicking fantasy and reality with an Italian football ultra
I’ve met many hardcore, violent fans, but the hostage-negotiating, cocaine-smuggling, Marxist-Leninist Alessandro Casolari still stood out
theguardian.com
In tomorrow's FORZA CALCIO newsletter, I've picked out six players you should be watching at the World Cup. No Azzurri doesn't mean no calcio. It lands (for free) in inboxes and online at 6pm. You can subscribe to get it directly. forzacalcionewsletter.substack.com/subscribe
Your weekly 5-minute briefing on Italian football will land in inboxes at 6pm tomorrow. Sign up to receive The Calcio Dispatch direct to your inbox. This week: Ascoli, Vlahovic, managerial changes & more. forzacalcionewsletter.substack.com/subscribe
The newsletter is now live, and I dive into the North vs South divide in Italy and the how football is impacted by the social and economical landscape. Read this week’s FORZA CALCIO feature now. forzacalcionewsletter.substack.com/p/north-vs-s...
North vs South: Italy's geographical connundrum
The divide continues.
forzacalcionewsletter.substack.com
Your weekly 5-minute calcio briefing is live now. Read this week’s Dispatch now. forzacalcionewsletter.substack.com/p/the-calcio...
Join the curva. Support the newsletter. I'm launching the paid tier of FORZA CALCIO, where you'll get access to two monthly deep dives and the full archive, as well as more. Free tier remains the same as now. Subscribe for just £3.50 per month. forzacalcionewsletter.substack.com/subscribe
I have mapped out all of the stadiums in Serie A for the 26/27 season. Venezia, Frosinone and Monza added. As you can see, and as expected, the imbalance between north and south is pretty stark. 0 Sicilian sides in the top division (yet).
Summer, so I’d like to draw your attention to @luketaylortcd.bsky.social’s unbelievably good Italian football output. Luke is ex-IBWM and his clever Calcio updates via Forza Italia are truly exceptional. Think of an upgrade on James Richardson! Check this out: www.instagram.com/reel/DXRJJJ0...
Luke | FORZA CALCIO 🇮🇹⚽️ on Instagram: "Who is going to be relegated from Serie A this season? 🇮🇹⚽️ Welcome back to ‘Caffe e Calcio’, the series where I give you a Moka thought, a little espresso sho...
55 likes, 3 comments - forzacalcionewsletter on April 18, 2026: "Who is going to be relegated from Serie A this season? 🇮🇹⚽️ Welcome back to ‘Caffe e Calcio’, the series where I give you a Moka thoug...
instagram.com
In this week's FORZA CALCIO newsletter, I look at the Italian Summer Funfair, where the main attraction is a merry-go-round. There are managers changing clubs everywhere you look, and I give you my thoughts on the big stories. 6pm tomorrow. Sign up. forzacalcionewsletter.substack.com/subscribe
New Patreon Podcast: The Art of the Tifo We're joined by @luketaylortcd.bsky.social from Forza Calcio World to discuss the cultural significance of tifo to football fans and why we should always protect tifo as supporter-owned culture. Subscribe and listen here ⬇️ www.patreon.com/posts/157702...
Your weekly 5-minute calcio briefing lands in inboxes at 6pm. The Dispatch looks at Como, Milan, the managerial changes in Serie A, play-offs, protests and more. Sign up if you fancy. It's free. forzacalcionewsletter.substack.com/subscribe
I've made this week's newsletter a love letter to a certain archetype of striker that is dying out. It's an emotional, yet romantic one. Sign up for FORZA CALCIO to get it directly to your inbox. forzacalcionewsletter.substack.com/subscribe
Tonight is the final night of the season in Serie B before we enter the playoffs and playouts. So, to celebrate, this week’s FORZA CALCIO newsletter reflects back on Juventus’ time in the league. Sign up to get it direct to your inbox 🔗 forzacalcionewsletter.substack.com/subscribe
The Calcio Dispatch lands in inboxes this evening at 6pm. Your weekly five minute briefing on everything you need to know in Italian football. Champions, relegations and scenes from the curva. Sign up 📩 forzacalcionewsletter.substack.com/subscribe
There's (finally) a newsletter coming tomorrow on Learning Italy, my Substack focused on studying Italian history. Sign up, if you're interested in this sort of thing. learningitaly.substack.com
Previewing the 25/26 Serie C Play-Offs The tournament kicks off this weekend, so now is the perfect time to get clued up on it and pick your team. I'm backing Catania. Read now 🔗 forzacalcionewsletter.substack.com/p/previewing...
Previewing the 25/26 Serie C Play-Offs
One place in Serie B, decided by fine margins
forzacalcionewsletter.substack.com
