Inter-Juve, Curva Nord without banners in protest

It lasted a few minutes. Inter’s Curva Nord was left without banners and half empty, before the second leg of the Coppa Italia with Juventus. It was a sudden and unannounced protest. It is the result of the pre-sale (which, however, has not officially started yet) of tickets reserved for the Nerazzurri for Milan-Inter, the first leg of the Champions League on Wednesday 10 May. What happened? Inter has not yet communicated how the tickets for the second green tier will be managed, the one that will be reserved for away fans in the first of the two semi-finals or the one with the Diavolo at home. On the Viale della Liberazione website, at the moment there is no trace of official press releases in this regard. However, the ultras had the “feeling” that the seats in the Curva would not be reserved for them (or in any case a sufficient number of them) and that those tickets would all be available for sale for the 40,000 Interisti season-ticket holders. Hence the discontent in the minutes before the kick-off, with the initial protest, then sketched out. Because there is still no official announcement on how to sell away tickets for Milan-Inter.

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The heads of the Curva Nord thus decided to remove the banners already hung and not to do the planned choreography. Several ultras remained out, but before Doveri’s initial whistle the curve was repopulated, the banners were reattached and even the chants started to incite the team and the individuals. As always happens in the Italian derby. At the beginning of the second half, the North unrolled a first banner (“In silence we look forward: let’s fight them with all our might”), then a second (“Squad and Curva united towards our objectives”). In the latter, the (voluntary) absence of the word “society” seemed evident. One pro Handanovic had previously been exhibited.