Here we go again with Serie A Weekly giving you a list of five stories to read this lunchtime that we have seen from around the web and enjoyed ourselves. Many of these will be about Italian football of course but there is always room for something different and those will be here too. Take a look at our recommendations, pass them on and be sure to leave a comment on these great articles. The feature will return tomorrow for more of the same!

First up today is friend of the show James Horncastle with a fantastic review of the recent events in French Football for FourFourTwo.com. Read his round up here

New York Cosmos are never far from people minds, and the people behind the excellent TwoFootedTackle.com look at riviving the most famous name in US Soccer in the first of a five part series here

Next up is a piece by one of our favourite writers, Gabrielle Marcotti, who compares Lionel Messi to Wayne Gretzky for the Wall Street Journal here

Speaking of our favourites, Giancarlo Rinaldi riffs on Serie A’s most influential soloist Zlatan Ibrahimovic. Read his look at how much the Swede matters to Milan here

Finally something altogether different. With the BBC’s Match of the Day program taking much criticism, Rocco Cammisola looks at one of Italy’s many varations on the theme, Controcampo. Read his review here

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