Next up was a trip to Florence to face the Viola. "Terry Neill always made sure we went first class," recalls Banks, but the luxury ended there as captain John Kaye's own goal proved costly in a 1-0 defeat. "I can remember the Fiorentina game well," Banks went on. "They were waiting in the tunnel for us at the end wanting to fight us. "And we were quite prepared to give them one as well, let me tell you. "We were frustrated at getting beaten and gave as good as we got. "There wasn't many supporters in the ground but it was hostile. They were climbing up all the fences that went around the ground. It wasn't very comfortable that's for sure." Read more: http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/Euro...ory-21965634-detail/story.html?#ixzz38sh6zOAJ Read more at http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/Euro...l-City-8217/story-21965634-detail/story.html?
I remember that Lazio game as if it were only 41 years ago. They had a larker called Giuseppe Wilson. Buckets of water flying round like Charlie Cairoli was in panchina for the laziali.
Att: 7,325 Att: 3,965 Clearly a lot of these were plastics and flaskers. Obviously, they needed guiding though the intracasies of supporting HCAFC. Basically ****s the lot of them with no idea of who we are or where we've come from. Chappy
Was at those games. And the 3-0 defeat at Coventry. My wife to be's introduction to the delights of away travel. Though a fracas in the city centre after the game when she was the only female and we were outnumbered rather heavily wasn't her idea of a great day out.
Odd how the italians seemed to like to call it on after the game in the tunnel. Remember reading about how Lazio demanded it with Arsenal after a European tie there, yet had a reputation for being big girls' blouses. Just like they have a reputation for being 'temperamental' but are also as disciplined/focused as any teams in the world.
I remembered right. From an article by Brian Glanville, one of the best of sports journalists- On the field, though Chinaglia himself played no part in such excesses, his Lazio team was prone to outrageous behaviour. After the banquet which followed a European match against Arsenal the Lazio players, incited by that notorious Argentine coach, Juan Carlos Lorenzo, attacked the Arsenal players, brawling with them, till they escaped in their coach, just in time, as Chinaglia himself once told me, to evade a horde of approaching Lazio fans.
I think they had a big inferiority complex about our football and that all changed after Capello's winner at Wembley, and the spell was broken.
[video=youtube;9hRk4SnKc0k]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hRk4SnKc0k[/video] Season pass campaign for 14/15 from Hellas Verona FC, about same size as Hull, i serie A. No call for them to renamed Verona Romeos as yet.
