The only place in the world where "Goal!" could be born The myth of Newcastle, a city that has indelibly marked the history of English football

Danny Cannon, director of the ''Goal!'' trilogy - a film that traces the fictitious career of Santiago Munez, a Mexican promise who wants to break through into European football - although he does not know if his 2005 film would have been yet another unsuccessful experiment of the binomial football-film, had one certainty to rely on: Newcastle United.

In the mid-90s the city of Newcastle was one of those in which the English people recognized themselves because of their working class and Newcastle United represented the hipster culture translated into sport, a team that everyone liked because of the consideration of ''underdog''; a consideration that vanished within three years - from 1993 to 1996 - after the Bianconeri of Tyne County moved from the First Division to the Champions League, before quickly returning to the slums of the ranking.

In these weeks of quarantine, the writer has not been able to enjoy Travis Scott's experience on Fortnite, nor the sense of community typical of gaming at Fifa Ultimate Team and, therefore, has managed with a Psp with a very limited choice of games. Among them was a 2009 Football Manager, and I allowed myself to save Newcastle from a sad - as announced in reality - relegation to the Championship. 

An unexpected desire to see Newcastle in the Champions League was automatically triggered, followed by the virtual tour of the city of Newcastle and an amletic buy/don't buy in front of the 1995 Newcastle second jersey. And the news that Kuno Becker - the actor who plays Santiago Munez - is writing the plot of Goal! 4 just now that Saudi money is coming, I noticed how nostalgic football stories are destined to repeat themselves over time.