–The story as I have heard it goes like this. Napoli is a greek city, originally, hence the whole Partenopei thing. As a coastal city that relies on the sea, it has as it’s symbol a horse – the animal of Poseidon, like Milan has the Snake, Rome has the Wolf and Turin has the Bull.

Anyways, fast forward 2000 years and the football team lost one of it’s early games quite badly, like 10-0. So, as a sarcastic put down, people called them donkeys instead of horses – you know, like they’re not good enough to be horses.

As often happens in Italy, they adopted the joke to turn the tables on their detractors.

That’s the way that I heard it.

1) Verona and Pro Vercelli
2) Split according to regions and then playoffs (?)
3)
4) The Filipini brothers
5)
6) True
7) 1938
8) Massimo Margiotta
9) Nakata, Morimoto, Nakamura
10) False
11) Terza Categoria
12) Giovanilisimi (I’m sure that’s spelled wrong)
13)
14) Luciano Gaucci
15) Parma and Udinese
16) Firenze Viola
17)
18) Foggia
19)
20) Messina’s stadium (?)
21) False
22)
23)
24) Alessandro Rosina and Alex Del Piero (?)
25) Gentile, Tardelli, Zoff
26)
27) Seven (Vicenza, Fiorentina, Juve, Milan, Bologna, Inter, Brescia)
28)
29)
30) Roberto Donadoni
31)
32) Either the San Nicola in Bari or the San Paolo in Naples
33) La Gazzetta Dello Sport
34) Byron Moreno…ass!
35) Totti, De Rossi, Materazzi
36) 1968
37) Alessandro Del Piero
38)
39)
40)
41) False
42)
43)
44) Sebastiano Rossi
45) Parma
46) Antonio Cassano
47) Sven Goran Eriksson
48) Giuseppe Meazza and Christian Brocchi
49) Marco Amelia
50) Christian Vieri