San Siro, curve in dispute: season debut with seventy thousand fans but without the usual enthralling cheering. A signal that divides Milan
A cultural revolution or a simple consequence of the investigation of the Milan prosecutor’s office? We will find out only by living as Lucio Battisti said, but in the meantime the first game of the new season at San Siro has proposed an unprecedented atmosphere: more than seventy thousand spectators in the stands but the curve still in open contestation with the company and that does not drag the rest of the stadium. Will we have to get used to a new way of living football? It is still too early to say it and for sure it is a situation that divides the world of Rossoneri cheering but that will probably also affect the Nerazzurri of Milan.
The investigation And The big names of the curves made out
After the arrest of the historical leaders of Milan and Inter curves, the Ultras movement has undergone a series of restrictions that have actually removed the noisiest part of cheering at the stadium. The controversies were not lacking, starting with the distribution of tickets for the Inter Champions League final and then the prohibitions to sign subscriptions in curve for many fans considered dangerous from the point of view of public order. And here we enter the new dimension in which San Siro entered and that perhaps we are not used to considering as normal. The goal of removing the violent at the stadium is part of the normal rules of civil life, but it is wrong to criminalize the whole world ultras because there is a healthy part that dedicates one’s life to the team of the heart and that does not go beyond the limits allowed by the law but is concerned with supporting the club and players.
Different tendency and culture
Then there is a trend that comes from abroad and that depends above all on the fact that the stadiums in England, Spain and Germany are owned by Club and the objective, more or less declared, is to increase the turnover with increasingly expensive tickets by providing services that in our stages, too old, we cannot afford to guarantee. It is the concept of the stadium that becomes like a theater where you go to see the show being able to exploit all the potential of hospitality. This is the reason why the number of foreigners who is improper to define fans increases at Bernabeu as in Old Trafford. They are tourists who also love football and go to the stadium with the same mood with which they visit the Colosseum or the Milan Cathedral. A culturally opposite culture of our wing, which we climb the steps of the stadium with anxiety and carry it behind for two hours suffering like dogs for our heart team.
Inevitable divisions
What is the right model? It is a question to which it is impossible to answer. In the social world these days are faced with those who applaud a more open stadium to families and children to those who cannot think they no longer see the curved curves from choreography and noisy to push their team to victory, that is, that stadium model that we have always used to.
