JAMES RICHARDS looks at how southern Italy has been starved of success – but why there’s a glimmer of hope for the future

NORTH-South divides are common. They fall into a number of categories ranging from political, economic, topographical, cultural or even sporting -and no north-south divide is quite as pronounced as the one that exists in Italian football.
In the history of the Italian top flight, dating back to 1898, only two teams south of Rome have won the Scudetto and only one of them heralds from the Italian mainland.
Cagliari, thanks to the fierce left foot of Gigi ...