ACF Fiorentina may have failed to sign Dimitar Berbatov, but there are reasons for quiet optimism this season.   In one of the quieter transfer periods of recent years, ACF Fiorentina bucked the trend by staging a major overhaul of the squad. Out went Riccardo Montolivo (free transfer to AC

As the sun lingers on the horizon during the long evenings of early summer, and the bats fly overhead, the courtyard of the Bargello museum, once Florence's seat of government and then prison, will be the setting for William McNulty's stage adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel Dracula.