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That Italy didn’t qualify for the World Cup this year.
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Overcooking pasta for my Italian family in Napoli – they would kill me.
Minimum effort, maximum satisfaction. That’s the way everyone should live.
I wanted to be a footballer at first, like any other Neapolitan kid.
As a nice and fair guy who helped bring authentic Italian cooking to the UK.
I would have spent more time with my parents. I did see them often, but you don’t realise how much you’ll miss someone or something until it’s gone.
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