Curva Sud Milano

Because that area of Milano is always full of dickheads who attack for robbery or looking for fights. Years ago there were numerous stabbings between fascists and anarchists until the police decided to clean up but it still remains a risk area. Furthermore, at least in Milano (unlike Rome and Naples), ultras related attacks are always motivated by previous relationships between rival fans... something that had no reason to exist vs Newcastle.

I can assure you that the stabbing of the Newcastle fan is not linked to the ultras, unlike the french one. If french ultras look for trouble in Paris (as they tried to do without success) then when they come to Milano they will find trouble. It's wrong, I know, but that's what happens.

Today, violence (football related) in Italy is at its lowest level... I have been going to San Siro since the early 80s and in that decade something serious happened EVERY Sunday, inside and outside the stadium. The only serious events that happen in recent years occur almost exclusively if/when groups of away fans ( Italian fans) meet in motorway service stations. Or when foreign fans come the day before the match and become an easy target because, after 40 years, they still haven't understood what they should not to do.

This is not true... there is an amplified megaphone for the person who starts the chants, otherwise is impossible to coordinate a 80meter long section. San Siro Curva Sud is huge, we've been using megaphones since the 80s. Before there were several people arranged along the entire Curva who started the chants with an normal megaphone each, now only one man in the middle with an amplified megaphone.

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I was there years ago, Newcastle-Chelsea, Shearer and Pistone with u...Newcastle won 2 or 3-1. Di Matteo scored for Chelsea.

in the 90s a friend from London ( Chelsea fan) often came to visit me in Milan. Every time he entered the Curva at San Siro he showed me his arms and had goosebumps

for complicated choreographies to create it takes several weeks of work and around 80/90 people, obviously you don't work on the choreography every day but those are the times. For some choreographies, many years ago, we had prepared three months in advance. Yesterday's one, for example, was very easy and can be prepared in a very short time.

“Franco was the best player I have ever played with. The guy was world class to his core. He had everything – pace, two feet, and he was a leader of men. I remember the first time I trained with him at Milan, I couldn’t believe my eyes; I thought, “Christ, he is unbelievable.” He was a joy to play with.” — Ray Wilkins An anecdote that you surely don't know about Van Basten and Sacchi...Sacchi was a great coach but he was also arrogant and presumptuous, he often argued with van Basten in training sessions until one day Sacchi called Berlusconi and warned him "President choose.. . me or Van Basten, we can't be together." Obviously Berlusconi sent him away .

You're right, the 2004 and 2005 AC Milan were better than the 2007 team... but Sacchi's Milan were unplayable, never seen a similar team since then. My father's (born in 1930 and football fanatic) personal ranking of the most beautiful teams to watch: 1) Real Madrid of Gento Puskas and Di Stefano late 50s 2) "Grande Torino" late 1940s 3) Sacchi's Milan 4) Cruijff's Ajax

We had a lot of champions at least until 2010 but none like Franco Baresi... a true legend as a man and as a footballer. Sadly, AC Milan today is only a pale memory of what it once was.

Palermo was safe, Catania is more dangerous in Sicily. In the 80s and 90s the most dangerous were Bergamo - Verona - Rome (Roma and Lazio) and Milano (MIlan).

From '84 to '90 I saw all of Milan's away matches... from Palermo to Gothenburg (I only skipped Tokyo for the two intercontinental finals), then I started working and I skipped many of them.

I hope, I have to argue with my daughter about going on an away game but I told her it will be a peaceful trip . She never wants me to go to Greece or Serbia/Croatia for example but England, Spain and France are always quiet places for matches.

yes, at that moment he acted like a dickhead but Gattuso was like that... you couldn't reason with him when his brains went crazy. In San Siro all the "old" fans booed him.