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I have always been fascinated by Italian football.

A child of the early-nineties, forging my first footballing memories in formative years falling after Italia 90 but before David Beckham’s 2003 move to Real Madrid, how could I not be?

Forget the lure of La Liga, Football Italia on Channel 4 was where it was at.

Spain might have Real Madrid and Barcelona but their great sides never caught my eye the same way as the likes of Juventus, AC Milan, Internazionale or AS Roma.

They didn’t need to call themselves ‘Galacticos’ to be littered with world class player after world class player and to be considered truly special.

It was the Italians who first witnessed the global superstardom of Zinedine Zidane and Ronaldo, while it was the likes of Andriy Shevchenko, Pavel Nedved, Edgar Davids, Alessandro Del Piero, Francesco Totti and Paolo Maldini who first captured my imagination when flicking through the pages of my weekly Match magazine or absorbing the back page of the Funday Times pull-out from my dad’s weekly edition of the Sunday Times.

I will never