Rome both is and isn’t a football town. The people who live there might be crazy about the sport but the clubs who also live there aren’t really that successful at the sport.

For a brief window in the late 90s and early 2000s, that changed. This is the story about when Rome ruled Italy, in a football sense of course, but only too briefly.

References for Issue #2 (Calcio)
The Blizzard (Issue #7)
Calcio (John Foot)
Erbstein (Dominic Bliss)
Forza Italia (Paddy Agnew)
Golazzo: The Totally Italian Football Show
Immortal Torino (Roberto Pennino)
Juve! (Herbie Sykes)
Sempreinter.com
The Names Heard Long Ago (Jonathan Wilson)
These Football Times (Issues: Napoli, Maradona & Online)
Zonal Marking (Michael Cox)

00:00 – Introduction
00:30 – Lazio
08:35 – Roma
14:30 – 1999/2000
21:35 – 2000/2001
28:55 – Legacy


Check out our football alternate history channel:    / @whatiffootball3417  

Check out our football gaming channel:
   / @whatifgaming3417  

I write about football here:   / jdoyle9293  

What if Documentaries is YouTube's only football magazine, with monthly issues of five videos each month on a topic as far back as the dominant Aston Villa team of the 1890s, as recently as Napoli's stunning 2023 Scudetto winning team, as obvious as Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo and their litany of trophies, as obscure as Dynamo Moscow's passovotchka football of the 40s. We've got it all.