Seems Serie A is almost getting more like here by the week!

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Also just found out that no away fans are allowed in the following games and the return fixtures:

- Roma - Napoli
- Livorno - Lazio
- Lazio - Juve
- Fiorentina - Napoli
- Roma - Lazio
- Lazio - Juve & Juve - Lazio in the Coppa Italia

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True but security and stewarding of games is still no where near as rigid as in britain. The fact that at italian matches banners should be checked before games, looks like thats not happening the fact 1000 napoli fans were at the game despite being banned makes a mockery of italian security measures. There really has to be a revolution in italy for things to become as bad as over here, I can see things getting worse for them but it will never be like britain.

It's been like that for a while now.

They'll still get in.


I thought the banner would be racist or something but "Naples - Sewer of Italy" isn't that bad!

That's not true.

Has anyone read Tim Park's 'A Season With Verona'?

Blame the dude on ultras-tifo. I just copied and pasted. :P

Are you the York lad that has been enquiring about that fixture BTW?

More like here ???

If it gets to the stage of that many games banning away fans then heaven help us. I thought leeds and millwall kicked up a fuss about the prospect of banning each other later this season never mind premierleague teams

Was in Italy recently and went along to a couple of games including the Lazio v Real Madrid fixture. First time I had been since the security measures that were introduced in January and noticed a few changes but nothing major. There were no fireworks/flares going off in the curvas although the Real Madrid section had plenty going off when they scored.

Ticket checks were in place although Lazio were selling tickets on the day of the game which I had been led to believe had been stopped since January. Italy being Italy they tend to ignore many rules/regulations anyway. Inside the stadium, the stewarding was still only for segregation and hardly saw any police about. Atmosphere was still bouncing in the curvas with plenty of colour.

Loads of Lazio supporters who could'nt buy tickets in curva Nord and had to buy elswhere were all climbing the fence to get in there before kick off. Police and stewards just left them to it. There were around 70K there with both curvas sold out but you could basically stand anywhere in stadium as usual. Plenty near me just stood at the block entrances watching the game.

Roma V Napoli and Livorno V Lazio have long history of trouble so not surprised by the bannings. Inter V Napoli last week was similar but Napoli still had well over 1K in San Siro by kick off.