Is Antonio Nocerino the most underrated signing of the season in Serie A?
James Horncastle
Posted on March 21st, 2012
Flashback to transfer deadline day, August 2011. Milan have already said that, for them, the window is “closed, in fact it’s very closed.” But Adriano Galliani can’t help himself. Like a punter at the races, he fancies another flutter, backing a horse everyone else thought was a donkey. The odds are long, but as with Tipperary Tim, Gregalach, Caughoo, Foinavon and Mon Mome, all of whom were 100-1 winners at the Grand National, his outside bet comes home. “It was a stroke of luck,” Galliani smiled. A colpo alla Nocerino has now entered the rich vocabulary of Italian football. It refers to the player involved that fateful day when Galliani had a gamble on Antonio Nocerino. “I understand what it means,” the midfielder…
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