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James

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Had heard he was ill but just assumed he'd pull through, despite extremely first hand personal experience to the contrary in such matters.

Gutting stuff as he seemed and was impossible to dislike as a player or manager even taking the Samp/Italy bias out of it.

 

Have a Sampdoria shirt from his era in my drawer in my bedroom even now (with a few others) probably down to my first Italian match - Inter v Sampdoria 90/91 critical title game, was the most engrossing match I'd seen up to that point.

The commentary on Vialli's goal said it all "grown men, hardended football watchers are scarcely able to turn their eyes to this, and surely its two this time, it is! the sommersault of celebration from Gianluca Vialli".

 

RIP Luca, Grazie mio amico

 

 

 

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Really shit news. Phenomenal player. Synonymous with the PL.

 

Amazing that he was old and at the end of his career, and all of his great achievements at Sampdoria and Juventus were in the past, but he was still the highest quality for a few years when he went to Chelsea despite being Gullited.

 

 

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