Try as he might, Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich has a long way to go before he can even come
close to carrying the bags of Silvio Berlusconi.
AC Milan's owner and president has been at the forefront of European and Italian club soccer for
more than two decades, winning 5 European Cups during that period.
Video games are no mirror of the real world, especially football games that allow old, weezy
washups like us to win championships and gold boot awards. But real life, like video games, gets
boring when accelerated to, in the words of Rick Moranis in Spaceballs, "ludicrous speed."
In this interesting piece about the evolution of football tactics and television broadcast's effect
thereupon Jonathan Wilson doesn't make this same video game analogy.
Franco Baresi is one of the first names to come to anybody's mind when you mention the Libero
(or sweeper) position, simply because he was the on-field general and symbol of Arrigo Sacchi's
great Milan side in the late 1980s; a side that arguably boasted one of the greatest defences of
all time.
