I wouldn't want to be at The Stadio Olympica tonight - it's a hell hole.
who told u this bullshit mate! this is not true at all! I was at the olimpico a lot of times in the pas few years.....kind people, good supporters..... last year i made a "scarf exchange" with a roma ultras. He wanted my scarf, but he didn't want to give me his scarf, coz it was all messed up; so he asked me too follow him, we went to his ultras friends, he picked another "clean" scarf, and he gave me that one..... in the meanwhile almost 30 romanisti offered me a cigarette, as i didn't have anymore.......
before the match started, when palermos ultras entered into the stadium (i was already in there, cause i don't travel with palermo's ultras), roma's speaker, Franco Zampa (the Legend)screamed into the mike "romanisti, le'ts give a warm welcome to our palermo's friends"...... then 35 thousand romanisti applauded palermo's ultras for something like 30 seconds...
...... now, would u call this a hell hole????
i Know u got your bizarre (but funny, sometimes) sense of humour, but, when we're not joking, let's cut with all theese prejudices.
Sure we have our problems with some groups of ultras (and we are on our way to solve them), but there are a lot of ultras groups known for their kind and polite attitude, like Parma, Chievo, Udinese, Empoli, Siena and Palermo Ultras....
my team is palermo; palermo has a 107 years tradition...... our stadium has NEVER been witness of disorders..... tell me mate, could u say the same about manchester united????
when Hammers came here last year with their "nice" t-shirts....
... do u know how palermo's ultras replied? with this banner:
"una civiltà di 3000 anni non può essere infangata da una maglietta. buona permanenza, hammers"
translation "a 3000 years civilization and culture can't be stained by a shirt. have a nice day hammers".
..... and actually they had a nice day....... destroyng 2 pubs (all alone, there weren't palermo's supporters in those pubs) and burning 3 cars....
....but still, i'm quite sure that next time palermo will meet west ham, u won't see in palermo official site a guide about "how to survive in London", like some bastards ignorants did in manchester united site.
now, i'm sure that tonite roma supporters will humiliate that idiot who wrote that internet page, exactly how palermo supporters humiliated hammers.... with ther kindness, respect and tollerance.
still one thing.
ultras are a very little percentage of italian supporters. here in palermo we have various groups of ultras for an overall amount of 300 people...... but each week at the Favorita (our stadium) u will se from 28 to 38 thousand people. the others are just simple supporters, like me, who just like to enjoy the match. and the same goes for other italian clubs.
so the statement:
To be fair, Italian supporters are generally hostile and hooligan-like.
is simply wrong.
just a little minority of our "supporters" (i wouldn't even call them supporters) are hostile.
Now u can tell me that english supporters are generally better than italian supporters; i'd say that's true. but u can't say that we're "generally" hostile.... this just means that u don't really know us
Nah man Franco Sensi was a pig as well.
well, i guess i know what your talking about mate. he made a mistake, a lot of years ago (when everybody used to make that mistake), but we can't deny that he fought for years for a fair competition in italy.
