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Inter’s successes over the 100 or so years of Italian football can be concentrated into three ‘cycles’ of victories. After sporadic success in the early part of the twentieth century legendary striker Giuseppe Meazza inspired the team to two championships in three years in the late 1930s. A further two championships followed under the defensive management of Alfredo Foni in the early 1950s. However, the myth of Inter – its national fan-base, rivalled only by Milan and Juventus – was born in the 1960s, with the hyperbolic management of Helenio Herrera and thanks to the largesse of president Angelo Moratti. Herrera was a personality so bizarre, strong and successful that he was to dominate the game, and the sports media, for nearly ten years. This was the Great Inter, a team ‘touched by the hand of God’.²