Italy v England Special

To mark this week's International friendly between Italy and England in Turin, a quick look back at the remarkable history of Italian goal nets in this fixture.

 Florence 1952 - looks like Hampden Park



Rome 1961 - more Olanda than Italia



 Rome 1976 - Wembley-style hardware (West Ham-style software)



 Turin 1980

UEFA European Championships - Italy 1980

The 1980 finals featured 8 teams in two groups of 4. The number of host stadia also increased, from two to four. There, the goal nets generally hung from curvy A-frames in a hybrid fashion:

Stadio Olimpico, Rome


Stadio Communale, Turin

  

San Siro, Milan


Stadio San Paolo, Naples

Goalnets and Aesthetics #3 - Two penalties

Both are taken in the same stadium - at the same end of that stadium - though you wouldn't know that to look at the videos.



Both go low to the goalkeeper's right but the lighting, the grass, the ball, the goalkeeper's dive, the goalposts and the goalnets themselves are all different.



Everything's different. In the 13 years separating these two penatlies, everything had changed.

But in the simple aesthetic of the ball hitting the net, the two penalties are the same.