Italy
Brendan Gallagher finds some reasons to be hopeful of a new dawn for Italy

Big loss: Wasps’ Matteo Minozzi has pulled out

Razor sharp: Gloucester No.9 Stephen Varney
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ITALIANS are naturally optimistic – it comes with the territory when you live in paradise – but for the pint-half-empty brigade there seems very little reason to be upbeat about their chances in the 2021 Six Nations.
It all seems to be going even more pear-shaped than normal. Their one world-class player –Matteo Minozzi – has suddenly announced he is unavailable, f...