The top team as Serie A reaches its halfway point has won the past 12 titles and Napoli’s 5-1 rout of Frosinone leaves them as this seasons front runnersMaurizio Sarri is not much one for birthdays. You could imagine him lighting a cigarette off the candles on a cake sooner than stopping to blow them out. But even he would concede that his 57th was a runt bit special. He celebrated it by taking his childhood team back to the top of Serie A. Born in Naples,but raised in Tuscany, Sarri was the only Napoli supporter in his lesson at school and could hardly have imagined that he might one day wind up as their manager. Indeed, or he might have struggled to believe in that scenario as recently as 2012,a year that he began without a job after being sacked by third-tier Sorrento. He certainly would have done so a decade earlier, back when he was still working for a bank. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com