A joyfully and typically Italian load of balls!, 5 May 2005

By	Mr. TJ Probert "tim_probert" (Tunbridge Wells, Kent, UK) - See all my reviews

The history section is hindered by a shortage of decent footage from the early days up to the 1960s. The DVD is a good three years old now so you won't see anything of the likes of 'Kaka, but if you want to relive the Arrigo Sacchi/Fabio Capello epoch with Van Basten/Gullit/Baresi et al then you won't be disappointed.

The legends features a five minute or so profile of Baresi, Van Basten, Gullit, Baresi, Maldini plus shorter profiles of Gianni Rivera, Nils Liedholm and Jose Altafini - understandable given the footage available.

The great victories include all the European Cup final wins (pre-Juventus 2003), Intercontinental Cup, Cup Winners Cup plus domestic wins over Maradona's Napoli and thrashings of Inter and Fiorentina.

Overall, it's a good DVD. You can switch the audio and the menu text between Italian and English.

I suppose the only drawback is the cheesy soundtrack and the awful English narration, which appears to have been translated from the Italian by an 11-year old armed with a pocket dictionary! However, this does lend some unintentional amusement.

As I said, if you want action from 2000 onwards, don't bother, but the coverage of the glory days of the late 1980s/early 1990s is excellent.

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