When the Italian literary magazine, Rivista Inutile, asked to write an essay on a team’s shirt history, I put aside my purple allegiance to trace the 105-year journey of FC Internazionale (the editor's a nerazzurri fan). I also created a two-part, poster-size, timeline graphic charting the sartorial highs and lows of the famous Milanese club, finally putting to good use my encyclopaedic vault of calcio-related archival material.