to represent England abroad. Three years later in 1896 a man named James Richardson Spensley arrived in Genoa introducing the football section of the club and becoming its first manager. Other evidence suggests that Edoardo Bosio, a merchant worker in the British textile industry had visited the United Kingdom and decided to introduce the sport in his homeland. He returned to Turin in 1887 and founded Torino Football and Cricket Club. Politics Both states are members of the NATO, Council of Europe, Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe and the G7. Resident diplomatic missions Italy has an embassy in London, a consulate-general in Edinburgh and a consulate in Manchester. United Kingdom has an embassy in Rome, a consulate-general in Milan and a consulate in Naples. See also List of Ambassadors from the United Kingdom to Italy Foreign relations of the United Kingdom Foreign relations of Italy Italians in the United Kingdom Holy See–United Kingdom Relations (including its history as the Papal States) European Union–United Kingdom relations References Further reading Baldoli, Claudia. Exporting fascism: Italian fascists and Britain's Italians in the 1930s (Oxford: Berg, 2003). Edwards, Peter G. "Britain, Mussolini and the 'Locarno-Geneva System'." European History Quarterly 10.1 (1980): 1-16. Hayes, Paul. Modern British Foreign Policy: The Nineteenth Century 1814-80 (1975) pp. 194–212. Horn, David Bayne. Great Britain and Europe in the eighteenth century (1967), covers 1603 to 1702; pp 327–51. Morewood, Steven, "Anglo-Italian Rivalry in the Mediterranean and Middle East, 1935–1940." in Robert Boyce, Esmonde M. Robertson, eds. Paths to War (Macmillan Education UK, 1989). pp 167–198. O'Connor, Maura. The romance of Italy and the English political imagination (Macmillan, 1998). Robertson, James C. “The Origins of British Opposition to Mussolini over Ethiopia.” Journal of British Studies 9#1 1969, pp. 122–142. online Podmore, Will. Britain, Italy, Germany and the Spanish Civil War (Edwin Mellen Press, 1998). Schwegman, Marjan. "In Love with Garibaldi: Romancing the Italian Risorgimento." European Review of History 12.2 (2005): 383–401. Wright, Owain. "British foreign policy and the Italian occupation of Rome, 1870." International History Review'' 34.1 (2012): 161–176. United Kingdom Italy