Check out this brilliant BBC feature about Milan's first captain and star player...
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Herbert Kilpin died in poverty in 1916, aged 46.
In 1999, AC Milan paid for a new tombstone and their illustrious founder, and superstar was reburied in the Monumental Graveyard in Milan.
But after a heavy drinking session in a Milanese tavern, the homesick Kilpin and five friends decided to start a football team to remind them of home.
AC Milan was born.