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Club Focus - US Sassuolo Calcio

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The last time I saw Sassuola they were playing in C2 against other small teams a lot of whom have gone to the wall. However, Sassuolo have been a real success story over the last few years and next season will take their place in Serie A, for the first time to and become the smallest town to have had a Serie A team representing it. The team from Emilia-Romagna was founded in 1922 and spent most of their history in the lower leagues of Italian football. That was until 2006 when they reached C1, which up until then had been the highest league that they had played in. The next season they almost made it to Serie B, but lost to Monza in the play-offs. One year later they managed to gain promotion to Serie B when they won C1 outright. They managed to secure these promotions despite being victims of their own success. After narrowly missing out on promotion from C1 the first time coach Gian Marco Remondino moved to Piacenza and when they won promotion his replacement Massimiliano Allegr

End of May play list

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May 2013 by jim_bomb on Grooveshark Plenty of familiar bands got a play over the month of May and with the Stone Roses concert coming up and tickets for Happy Mondays in November in the bag there was a decidedly retro feel to what I have been playing recently. 1 The Stone Roses - This is the one The version that appears on Garage Flower. 2 Рубль – Люовь - это... More plays over the month for St.Petersburg foul-mouths 'Rouble'. The missing word in the title seems to be their favourite word. If you know Russian you can probably guess what it is. 3 Happy Mondays - W.F.L. If you have a blast of the Roses you should probably have a blast of the Mondays too. Told you it had been a nostalgic month. 4 Kraftwerk - Tour de France My favourite track by the grandads of techno. 5 Swervedriver - Rain Down They were never my favourites from that scene, but I have grown to quite like them over the last month. 6 Curve - Chinese Burn From the same era as Swervedriver, one o