HERE’S a novel idea: a fresh European tournament specifically aimed at clubs based on the continent of Europe, as opposed to a European tournament featuring teams from another continent entirely and therefore about as European in tone as Nigel Farage on St George’s Day. What kind of new crazy is this, pray? It will never catch on.
According to the journalist Francisco Isaac, who keeps a sharp eye on shifts beneath the surface of the sport over there on the mainland and is a good friend of this paper’s weekly podcast, there are tentative moves in Italy to re-energi...