It was only a couple of hours until the match kicked off against Napoli.Dede wasn’t an Inter ultra. Unlike Sonny Barger, the Californian Hells Angel leader who once told Hunter S Thompson “nobody never wrote nothin’ good about us, but then we ain’t never done nothin’ good to write about”, the ultras – while never denying the violence and mayhem they create – believe they have done a lot of good. They have been feuding and fighting all season. But to see this, you have to be with them, to live alongside them. A group of Inter Milan "ultra" fans have written a social media post saying monkey chants at soccer matches are not meant to be racist. A victory for this almost unknown Calabrian city, against a stunning Tuscan town that was once instrumental in the founding of capitalist banking, would show that football is still able to do something miraculous: to invert the established hierarchies and give succour to the underdog.Just a few months later a very different side of the ultra underworld emerged in Milan. The ultras say they’re fighting brutal state repression, and that their insurgency is a quasi-sacred act: “Weirdly, one of the ways to spot the ultras is that many aren’t paying attention to the game. Still no one near him. Son histoire le prouve. The ultras are singing and singing. About 100 Inter ultras now ran onto the road. One member of the gang now lived between Morocco and Spain and was involved with the ’Ndrangheta, the Calabrian mafia, importing tonnes of hashish through the port of Genoa.The Blood & Honour gang, though, had a political affinity with the Inter ultras.
Results: Chievo 1-3 Milan, Fiorentina 0-0 Atalanta, Genoa 0-0 Empoli, Inter 1-2 Cagliari, Juventus 2-1 Udinese, Lazio 1-1 Bologna, Napoli 1-3 Roma, … People were shouting, smashing their palms on the side of the van.“He’s yours, he’s yours,” the Neapolitans screamed to the Inter ultras. In Italy we use some 'ways' only to 'help our teams' and to try to make our opponents nervous, not for racism but to mess them up," the fan group "L'Urlo della Nord" — translated to "Scream of the North" — said late Tuesday.
Many witnesses even said that the Inter ultras applauded the Neapolitans for handing over the dying man, as if the whole aggression was contained within a ritualistic, role-playing framework that could be paused when real life, and death, intervened.It suited everyone to exaggerate the violence.
The fact that the Napoli defender, Kalidou Koulibaly, But behind the headlines, the story was far more subtle. In this extract from his new book, Tobias Jones joins the anti-fascist supporters of one small club, CosenzaIn many ways this story isn’t about football at all, but a portrait of an enduring Italian subculture inspired by it. Even the ultras themselves tried to depict the encounter, with embellishment and bravado, as an epic confrontation in which, as one said, “we showed ourselves worthy of honour”. "We understand that it could have seemed racist to you, but it is not like that. It was the ideal place for the ambush because it was near the stadium and a couple of large, dark parks were good for getting lost in or dumping weapons. The “SAN” of Inter’s Boys SAN – one of Italy’s oldest ultra groups – stands for When the call came through – “They’re turning into Via Novara now” – about 100 men in 20 cars raced to Via Fratelli Zoia, which runs perpendicular to Via Novara. ©2020 FOX News Network, LLC. More paper bombs were thrown. And because it’s far easier, and safer, for journalists to talk to the police, it’s usually only the official narrative that is heard. Table summarizing the history of Inter Milan players. He was there with other ultras from Varese, part of a group called Blood & Honour that was twinned with Inter ultras. But it’s a way of life that has evolved, mutated, regenerated and reinvented itself. Violence is integral to them but so is altruism. The story had everything necessary to depict them as the embodiment of evil.
(AP Photo/Luca Bruno) The only ones missing are the Ciccio’s group was called Nuclei Sconvolti (the “Deranged Nuclei”). Hammers, axes, baseball bats and knives had all been used in fights before, but now they were being backed up by a Nazi ideology in which force was the only language. They constantly seem to be asking the question of what it is to be a man in a world in which muscle and manliness are, for understandable reasons, considered suspect.Suddenly, a goal.