Pro Vercelli: The Nickel Objects of Our Dime Desire

The two implacable enemies of a successful football club are stagnation and arrogance. Stagnation leads to complacency, to a drowsy sense of timelessness. If things have always been and will always be as they are, why should we bother being fierce? Arrogance leads to laziness and a bitter, spoiled entitlement. If we're special for who we are rather than for what we do, why should we have to prove it? Like a hereditary aristocracy, in other words, a football club can only thrive with frequent i