Roma to be Everton's opponents in 2024-25 curtain-raiser

I'd rather it was played in Roma as it's one of my favourite cities. I also think this signals that this ownership issue is closing in on Everton in my opinion. Not long to go before the season starts.

But I have to admit Rome is nice too.

"Arrivederci Roma"

Milan is a great city with great people.

I've visited a couple of times but was lucky enough to be sent there for work also a couple of times.

I worked in Rome for 7 months in 1974 and loved the city and I have visited Italy many times since.

Milan is the only Italian city that I vowed never to return to. Too much traffic and noise and too little patience. The New York City of Italy.

I really like Rome too. The only place in Italy I wouldn't return to is Venice.

From a tourist perspective, I'd say it is overpriced and overrated — and the service was fairly poor.

We were only half an hour south of Roma. I went to watch both, but took to Roma. The Lazio fans were fascist.

If anyone visits Roma, there is a small town called Anzio. Go to the harbour and enjoy the best seafood ever. There is a place owned by a guy called Walter. Strange name for an Italian, but speaks perfect English!

As for Scilla, that was interesting. I woke up, went to the car for a day out. Wouldn't start. Next thing two blokes arrived on a scooter. We opened the bonnet and the battery was missing. But low and behold they had one. My one! They fitted it for me at cost!!!

The Battle of Anzio cost the Americans nearly 24,000 combat casualties and the British nearly 10,000. The Allies also suffered 37,000 noncombat casualties, an unusually high number for an engagement in the European theatre. Many of these non-battlefield losses were caused by malaria and other mosquito-borne diseases that were endemic to the marshes in the beachhead area. The Germans suffered some 27,500

On the day of the landing, however, the Italian government agreed to the Allies' secret terms for a capitulation. It was understood that Italy would be treated with leniency in direct proportion to the part that it would take, as soon as possible, in the war against Germany. The Italian surrender was announced on September 8

My Dad fought at Anzio. "Hell on earth" he described it as.

You know what happened after that; Anzio Annie, wave after wave of attacks from the fanatical panzer Lehr division and Hitler youth, constant bombardment etc… Anzio is not fondly remembered in my family.

Walter Zenga the great goalie is Italian. Not an uncommon name in he German speaking north.

Returning again in 2018 with a touring choir, performing in St Peter's Basilica and the Sistine Chapel, then later holing up in a family restaurant during a wild thunderstorm and "singing for our supper" to the owners all afternoon while they plied us with incredible food and way too much limoncello.

And Audrey and Greg on a scooter in Roman Holiday.

Ah, Roma.

I stayed in a local area about 20 minutes walk from the centre and it was great. Friendly locals and local restaurants with great food, and beer, local beer made on the premises, not the mass-produced Peroni crap. Canal walks with local flea markets along the banks, it reminded me of Paris.

And of course the San Siro is a fantastic stadium.

Only traffic noise was from the train line that went by.

Rome, meh! Although I did stay in a nice local area there just by the Stadio Olimpico.

Like Mike #8, I passed on the chance to return to Venice.

By the way, if anybody is going to Rome, I found the name of that incredible family restaurant near Vatican City -- Ristorante Bar dei Museo Pizzeria Massa, walking distance from the Vatican Museum. Tell Maria the drunken California choir says hi.

I love. randomly driving in Southern Italy despised arrogantly by the Milanese, Florentines, Romans, Venetians etc, as backward ignorant peasants. Watch Christ Stopped at Eboli. That's the soul of Italy, closer to its heel. That's where the best Italians are - Pietrapertosa, Positano. Castelmezzano, Atrani, Pietrapertosa, Tropea, Bova,

And, then as Danny say, get on a boat to Sicily - Erice, Cefalu, Taormina, and Bagheria, where the greatest film of all time - Cinema Paradiso (the director's cut is essential) - was mainly filmed.

Bergamo is my number one North Italian town. Bologna is second. The rest I don't really care about, except for Firenze and Trieste.

So the best thing I ate that night was a Clif Bar from my backpack. Only miserable meal on the whole 4-country tour.

And I'm convinced, through experience, an Italian male would rather get knocked down crossing the road rather than run to avoid an approaching car as that would look uncool!

A nation of very different parts. The north, which has long campaigned for a separate state. The Sud Tirol, where I go Ski-ing. Previously part of Austria, but ceded to Italy after WW1, but still predominantly German-speaking and Austrian in culture.

Then you have Napoli and the south. They are like different countries. I went to Sardinia as well. I'd recommend it to all.

And as for the driving, that was an experience and you just had to join in otherwise you wouldn't get anywhere. Road marking and traffic lights? Waste of paint and pointless!! Loved the place.

This thread has become a bit 'TripAdvisor' however. Each poster trying to prove that they're the go-to Italian guide for ToffeeWeb. I didn't notice this kind of behaviour when the Coventry game was announced!

The food, weather, people, culture might all be great in Italy, but their ska bands are shite.

Milano for me in October. First time since my boss was changed to someone in Vlaardingen in 2002.

Maybe we should be on the Roma forum giving them advice as to the best pubs and eats in Liverpool.

I go to Iper (Ypres) often. Those visits are very sobering.

Napoli is chaotic. I used to jokingly call it 1980s Liverpool in the sun!!!

We travelled all over Italy in the 1970s and 1980s and were told by a B&B owner, in Naples, that red traffic lights were only advisory and the driver who blew the horn first had right of way.
It seemed a bit tongue in cheek but that's how it seemed to work in practice.
The other thing to watch out for was Fiat 500s, undertaking you on the pavement!

In fact, that whole region is stunning.