As Enzo Ferrari once said: Italians will forgive you anything — except success. It’s just in our DNA. In Italy, success comes with terms and conditions. Always has, always will. Rule number one: you better start apologising.
We’ve advised Valentino Rossi from the sofa, debated Baggio’s penalty for three decades, and blamed Ferrari’s pit stops from our kitchen tables. So, we couldn’t have asked for anything juicier than the first Italian ever reaching No.1 in the ATP rankings to unleash the next very Italian kind of hysteria.