Loved and loathed, Società Sportiva Lazio are one of football's most intriguing clubs, boasting a history littered with both controversy and world-class names. It's a club of contradictions, from gun-toting league winners to legendary players who never got an international look-in. No club can boast the contrasts of Lazio, which makes them one of the most fascinating sides we've ever covered.

Between the varying ends of the spectrum, the club has enjoyed two marked periods of glory, from the 1974 Scudetto through to Sergio Cragnotti's 1990s revolution. It's striking that a club of Lazio's magnitude, playing in the majestic capital city of Rome, hasn't won more despite its litany of legendary players.

Think Chinaglia, Verón, Piola, Nesta, Immobile, D'Amico, Giordano, Nedvěd and Signori. They're merely the tip of the iceberg. The list goes on: Vieri, Salas, Gascoigne, Sosa, Klose. If it's big names you seek, find Lazio.

And yet, the unmistakable reality of Lazio is that it's a club as mad as it is brilliant. They've boasted some of the most reviled supporters in European football, the Irriducibili, and have been termed the continent's "most right-wing club", with reason. Much of that was born at a time when a politically-divided dressing room, replete with .44 Magnums at training and on matchdays, lifted the Scudetto in 1974.

Welcome to Lazio. This is 140 pages in gorgeous print, all dedicated to that iconic blue and white jersey.

Featuring:

- Silvio Piola: Serie A's record goalscorer

- The magic and the madness of Giorgio Chinaglia

- The gun-toting icons of the 1974 Scudetto

- Vincenzo D'Amico: the greatest to never win an Azzurri cap

- After Chinaglia came Giordano

- Beppe Signori: the one-step wonder

- The shame of "Europe's most right-wing club"

- The making of Alessandro Nesta

- A single season of Christian Vieri and Marcelo Salas

- The Cup Winners' Cup glory of 1999

- How Sven masterminded the 2000 Scudetto

- The witchcraft of peak Juan  Sebastián Verón

- Ciro Immobile and the rise of Lazio's record goalscorer

- The Inzaghiball revolution

- The 16 greatest Lazio kits

- Lazio's history by numbers

- A visual history of the Lazio top scorer

- The evolution of a logo

- ... and lots more

Order now before we sell out. Every other issue has sold out before dispatch and won't be back until we reprint in future.

Projected dispatch by 17 July