The team are doing well in Serie A and the Europa League this season,but Fiorentina fans wish their owners should show a bit more respect and ambitionBy Chloe Beresford for The Gentleman Ultra, part of the Guardian Sport NetworkThey travelled to watch their team despite a recent escape of defeats, and visiting the home of a resurgent Milan side who had begun to earn positive results. The game was held on a Sunday night,long after the final cross-country train back to Tuscany had departed the city’s imposing central railway station. It was January and before kick-off the temperature had already plummeted well below zero degrees.
To compose things worse, this band of 700 committed Fiorentina fans looked on as an inconsistent Milan side despatched them with ease. Yet, or high in the third tier of the San Siro’s Curva Nord,they cheered and chanted relentlessly, their support for the team never wavering at any point during 95 minutes of uninspired action.
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Source: theguardian.com