San Siro

Kaka!

Crazy Fans!

A big part of our trip to Milan was to see AC Milan play. AC Milan is Andy's joint favourite European team with Real Madrid. We were very much looking forward to seeing Maldini and Kaka play.

We arrived at the San Siro (it was an early evening match) to a great atmosphere, we had a drink with some local fans before being let into the ground. As we were early, our first point of call was the club shop. Andy bought a home shirt with Kaka on the back.

The San Siro stadium looks pretty amazing from the outside, but incredible on the inside with an atmosphere to match. The fans make the atmosphere and AC Milan have a hell of a fan base.

We had some great seats, near the bottom, but high enough to have a great view of the pitch, opposite the tunnel.

The match: AC Milan v Torino

The final score was 0-0, disappointing as it would have been good to see AC Milan score.

What we loved was that the commentator would introduce the players number and first name and the fans would shout the surname - brilliant!!

We have to say though that some of the die hard fans certainly had a die hard attitude! We observed the fans on the top tiers and some were hanging off the railings! If they fell, they would have been dead!

Food and drink were brought round the stadium and to our amazement on this pretty chilly night, the most popular buy was the ice cream!

Maldini has only just retired in his forties, for an out field player, that is practically unheard of in England. Does anyone know the secret to why Italian players have longer careers?

After the game there was organised chaos with fans from both sides on their way home. We could not find an empty taxi or a bus to save our lives! We tried walking back to the hotel, but ended up getting a bit lost. We actually found out later that we had walked near to our hotel at one point! Eventually we found a taxi and welcomed our bed!