So first of all I would like to thank everyone for reading/voting and commenting on the last piece. I have been blown away by the response and in all honesty it has made my task incredibly difficult. After Roma’s strong start Fiorentina and Juventus have come back strong and as we speak it is La Viola who sit top of the table. Well done to everyone who voted for Fiorentina.

I am pretty sure I have narrowed it down to 4 teams that I will sleep on and make a decision. Before I get to who I have left, I will explain who has been let go.

“The Old Lady” Juventus got 14% of the vote and so many strong arguments to follow them. So many good players and such a superb history. Great piece on the Juventus Offside giving 10 reasons to be a Juventus fan and there’s not many of those points I can disagree with.

And it is not for “footballing” reasons that Juventus will not be my team. With the wonderful people on twitter like Adam, Mhairi, Aaron and Lars I just don’t want to be part of their team. I think I would have much more fun being against them. Being Scottish I am a fan of a bit of banter, so I look forward to my future team’s battles against Juventus.

Another three teams ruled out are Genoa, Chievo and Cagliari although all three are good teams I just can’t see me following them. Chievo come close with the wonderful “Flying Donkeys” story it’s a wonderful tale but the quality of football is just not there. And from the games I have watched this year I am going to tar Genoa and Cagliari with the same brush, although Cagliari have Biondini and you’ve got to love an Italian “ginger”.

Lazio lost out in my support from basically the lack of votes or even any positive comments. And when you get a message saying, “If you don’t choose Parma go for Samp or Fiorentina but you can’t go for the big four, that’s too easy or the racists Lazio.” I don’t at all believe if you’re a Lazio fan you’re a racist fan, but the lack of support towards il Biancocelesti led me away from their side.

With Juventus ruled out and Lazio ruled out in my mind I wanted to stay away from any kind of glory supporter. There was plenty of support for Milan, Inter and Roma but I don’t want to jump on an already existing band wagon, it would be far too easy to pitch up at the San Siro follow one of the Milan sides and enjoy the success and the football. I wanted to make things a little more interesting though.

It’s really really harsh but Roma get ruled out 1) Out with Milan, Inter and Juve they are one of the bigger teams in my eyes. 2) I have always had a bit of a dislike for Totti, not as a footballer but from a personal point of view. Hard to explain just someone makes me dislike him (sorry Roma fans!) and 3) From my history of collecting football kits I have never ever been able to buy a Roma kit due to their obsession with extremely tight Kappa jerseys, although I’ve been told they make them bigger, it’s always stuck in my mind and puts me off.

So we’re down to six and I said I had narrowed it down to four. So who’s going to go next? It’s Parma unfortunately. I love the colours and there are some great players from the past. Who can’t love Gianfranco Zola and Hernan Crespo? There was a wonderful comment left saying: “ I turned up on Parma’s front door at the Tardini unannounced in 1994 and was given a one hour guided tour, dressing rooms everywhere and the general manager even gave me a lift back to my hotel! Would any other club do that?”

Back in my Italia 90 days Parma were a superb club, with Ariel Ortega, Juan Seba Veron the list of former players reads like a who’s who. Unfortunately the good times have yet to return and since their return from Serie B they have done really well but they seem just to be lacking what I would want now to spark my interest more in the league.

Last to go and it really was a tough decision is Sampdoria. Good team, memorable jersey, so many good players Vialli, Gullit, Platt etc. Pazzini now is superb, the exciting loan move for Federico Machedo and Angelo Palombo give you so many reasons to like this club however I think the loss of the always entertaining Antonio Cassano makes it hard to see where they go from here. How long till Pazzini goes and the team is weakened again. Not one for going forward.

So we are down to four Fiorentina, Palermo, Napoli and Udinese. There are so many great reasons to pick either of these exciting clubs. I think after the amount of info and reasons given to me to pick one of these four clubs, it is only fair that I sleep on this and decide tomorrow.

Until the morning…..Ciao!!!!

PART 3 – A decision has been made….