Ten years of watching football in Italy

Getting excited ahead of this weekend, as myself and good chum Gordon are off to Italy again, for the first time in a couple of years.
This trip is a special one - not only are we revisiting old haunts of Turin and Genoa to watch Juventus and Sampdoria at home this weekend, but it's actually ten years next month that we first set foot in Italy together to watch a football match.
In that ten years there have been some incredible highs of seeing the likes of Zidane, Davids, Ibrahimovic, Maldini, Del Piero, Totti and Adriano in action, watching Gordo get chased by a wasp in Parma and the superb cuisine served at Da Da Umpa in Turin - and the lows - freezing out tits off in the Della Alpi on two occasions and hearing about 9/11 while we were in a youth hostel in Genoa.
Ten years on from that wet December in 2000 though, we're still good pals, still footie mad and still incredibly excited about going over to Italy and coming back with good memories and no doubt some Italian football stickers!