How about the fact a Milan ultra killed a Genoa fan? Orrrrrr...
"Neapolitans Together With the Jews in the Ovens" read one banner in Milan's San Siro stadium before a 1989 AC Milan-Napoli match"
So classy!
1989! A time when English fans, supposedly a bastion of good behaviour today, were banned from Europe. Some PERSPECTIVE, for fuck's sake. Italian fans have some catching up to do but Ladro's right, our ultras embarrass themselves the least out of the big clubs in Italy.
And are regionalist chants really racist? They're racist if that region is inhabited by people of a different ethnicity to Italians, but it isn't. Just like the Mancunian "you're lucky you're not Scouse, eating rats in your council house" is offensive, but not really racist.
Same scumbags, different generations.
Calling out Maldini and Costacurta in the 90s, calling out Maldini in the late 00's, booing selectively Seedorf while everyone was underperforming the same, racist regionalist chants, all cool? On top of that they have a history of not allowing people not affiliated with the Curva to sit around them, or letting the other fans come up with their own chants.
It's quite amazing how you feel that professional footballers on millions of dollars should be spared criticism from their fans - a football club's most valuable asset. There were times when Maldini and Costacurta played poorly, and it's only with the benefit of hindsight that it becomes unimaginable that such legends could be criticised.
I also like how the ultras are collectively blamed for the Maldini incident. As if it was the entire curva and not a small section of fans who had some issues with Paolo off the pitch. Anyone who was at the Roma game and not watching it in his parents' basement on a pixelated stream would know that 99% of the curva paid their respects.
Is it really the "same scumbags"? I'm sure you're aware of the political and structural conflicts between and within Fossa dei Leoni, Brigate Rossonere and Commandos Tigre in the past, so do you really think there was unanimous agreement about everything in the curva in 1989, 2009 etc?
And they're not loyal or anything like that, they get money from the clubs (via blackmail, most of the time, obviously the big guys get it, trick rest into thinking about being loyal and stuff) to live on being ultras. To sum up, they're pieces of entitled shit.
It must be comforting supporting Milan from thousands of miles away and telling yourself that the actual tifosi are nothing more than mafiosi. Because OBVIOUSLY those at the stadium week in week out, making financial sacrifices to watch their team, have got nothing on keyboard warriors in their replica shirts on an Internet forum.
