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Cast your minds back to 1999. The Premiership
is growing like an angry pustule in a Turkish bath, Robbie Williams is singing about the Millennium, and Man United have just won the European Cup. It's only natural that Coventry want a slice of the global flare. Under the stewardship of Gordon Strachan, Cov turn their back on Britishness, giving short shrift to the likes of Barry Prenderville and Willie Bolland on their way out of Highfield Road, embarking instead on a £12million continental summer spree of which Posh would be proud. |
On 22nd June 1999, the Sky Blues swooped for Inter Milan pair Raffaele Nuzzo and Antonino Caruso on season-long loan deals. Crazy, but true. It must have been a rollercoaster for the lads .. emerging at the concrete haven that is Cov mainline station, rolling along at Ritzys on their opening night, meeting Brian Kilcline etc.
Sadly the youngsters couldn't cut it. Midfielder Caruso lasted only a month before being packed off back to Italy, while keeper Nuzzo joined him four months later having leaked five at Tranmere in the League Cup, maintaining a constant frustration at having not been able to overtake 74-year-old Steve Ogrizovic in the shotstopper pecking order.
He did return two years later for a loan spell at Wigan, bizarrely, but in similar fashion bench-warmed there too, achieving a collective total of one appearance in seven months on British shores. Mama mia.
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