The Day Italian Football Died: Torino and the Tragedy of Superga Partick Thistle to be replaced by buildings

to be replaced by buildings more in keeping with modern times

securing an exclusive interview with the new chairman of Nottingham Forest FC who lived in the same village

for which the latter was hanged in August 1910

She leaves teaching to volunteer with a Quaker project providing income generating work for refugee peasant women

The Day Italian Football Died: Torino and the Tragedy of Superga Partick Thistle to be replaced by buildingsAT just after 5pm on 4 May 1949, a Fiat aircraft carrying 31 people, among them the Torino football squad, crashed into a 2,200ft high peak called Superga on the outskirts of Turin. In an instant the dominant force in Italian football was destroyed. It was a tragedy unparalleled in sporting history and still affecting the club today. Unlike Manchester United after Munich, the Torino club has never been able to recover from that awful moment. Fifty