https://doismiu.blog/tags/identity/Recent content in Identity on doismiu - dispatches from the infernal archiveHugoen-usMon, 29 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0100https://doismiu.blog/posts/how-pain-created-torinos-identity/Mon, 29 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0100https://doismiu.blog/posts/how-pain-created-torinos-identity/<p>I need to tell you about a football club that died and refused to stay dead.</p> <p>Not metaphorically. Literally. On May 4th, 1949, a Fiat G.212 aircraft carrying the entire Torino FC squad crashed into the Basilica of Superga, just outside Turin. Thirty-one people died. The team that had won five consecutive Serie A titles, the backbone of the Italian national team, the greatest club side Europe had ever seen, was obliterated in an instant.</p>