- by Debbie Smith, writing from Rome, Italy
The funniest part about witnessing the AS Roma match was that I had a Curva Sud ticket, so this crazy Milanista ended up watching the match in the middle of hard core Roma ultras, something a little bit dangerous but at the end it made it more interesting.
So, given that there are no words that could make up with the actions I experienced that day, I share with you my top 10 pictures.
The Stadio Olimpico is beautiful from the outside, but given it has tracks on the inside, it actually makes a bit hard to watch the match, the actions feel far away.
Still, a beautiful stadium.
The Milan curva was singing, jumping and being amazing. I was so sad I couldn't find tickets for the away curva but you know, how difficult it is the whole away fans traveling and getting tickets in Italy.
The roma fans had a choreography, and they never stopped singing during the 90 minutes.
As an honest fan you know that wasn't a particularly pretty match, so there was one point when I was more interested watching Andrea Pirlo and Antonio Cassano gossip with Marco Borriello while they were all warming up.
But then when it was the last seconds, It was pure magic, the bench was all up and nervous and I remember how beautiful it was when the referee whistle and the whole bench rushed to the center of the field, and threw the mister in the air, and where hugging, by that moment I had absolutely forgotten that I was at the curva sud of the Stadio Olimpico and I was cheering and super excited. The players went to the Milan fans side of the stadium and celebrated underneath there, which made a bit difficult to take decent pictures, but the memories, those will remain in my heart forever.
(Plus, I was like whatever, I am going to Milano next weekend and celebrate with them at the Duomo and the San Siro, which I did, but that story will be for a different occasion).
