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Inter fans curse their luck 
[table=98%][tr][td]Everyone belonging to the posh quarters of the Fourth Estate should, once, watch an important football match within earshot of the home fans. Or, on second thought, it shouldn't. The experience can be wildy exhilarating, veering from the ridiculous to the sublime in the blink of an eye, ascending to the heights and plunging to the depths of what, basically, attending a football match entails.
On Tuesday, at the San Siro or Meazza in Milan, your humble correspondent did just that. Not on purpose, mind you. The extraordinary number of Press credential requests for Inter v Liverpool meant that, as for other Champions League matches in the same venue, some of the media had to sit in the overflow section. Among the fans, that is, which has a tendency to create a whole new atmosphere.
In short, not often have I heard as much swearing as I did on Tuesday. And that was towards Inter players within a few minutes of kick-off, not against the red-clad visitors playing their cat-and-mouse game on the pitch. Boy, what an international, cosmopolitan way to learn new swear words. And what a confirmation of that old clich |
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Post time 12-3-2008 11:30 AM
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