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1. 1.

   Fill in the blanks to complete the given sentences.

   1. Comparing Italian and British football is like comparing ____________________ with ____________________.
   2. ____________________ football lacks the two vital ingredients that the ____________________ game has: ____________________ and ____________________−fantasy and cunning.
   3. The ability to tilt the game in your favour through slightly ____________________, but perfectly ____________________ tactics is called ____________________ in Italian language.
   4. Italian ____________________ are famous for producing a ____________________ of surprise that springs open a ____________________.
   5. The national stereotype of Britain is to be ____________________ while that of Italy is to be ____________________ but these
   6. When ____________________, the long-haired Argentine who played for Florentina for almost a decade, later playing for ____________________, scored a vital goal against his old friends, he ____________________ up his face in a grimace of pain and that gesture was described by gushing commentators as ____________________, meaning 'a very beautiful gesture'.
2. 2.

   What is comparing Italian and British football akin to and why is it so?
3. 3.

   What does the author compare watching Italian football on television to?
4. 4.

   Give two examples of how Italian footballers are dignified.
5. 5.

   What are some of the examples on field of Italian tecnica?
6. 6.

   Why is one of Italy's longest running TV programmes and what happens in that show?