The week 34 match between Genoa-Siena was marred in controversy as Genoa ultras stopped play for 40 minutes,
but the ultras tried rationalising their actions.
There were outcries all across http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Italy-c2926 after the incident at the Marassi, with the FIGC condemning the actions of the Genoa
group of fans along with AIC President, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Damiano-Tommasi-c9800. The game took a turn for the worst after the Grifone supporters reacted angrily to the humiliation Malesani’s men were receiving by Giuseppe Sannino’s men.
The Genoa fans spokesperson was talking to Studio Sport on Monday evening and expressed his opinion on the issue at hand,
and further suggested that although there have been talks of violence, it did not actually take place in the match. Fabrizio Fileni did not see anything wrong in the match against Siena and there were no apologies necessary.
He further stated that they were concerned about the club getting relegated into the second tier of Italian football. The
Genoa ultras’ representative was further questioned what his definition of violence was, as flares were thrown onto the field of play. The ultra’s then blocked the player’s tunnel and there were apprehensions that the match might be called off.
Their spokesperson replied by suggesting that violence was killing people in the stands, and he denied reports of children
and women rushing from the stadium and commented:
“Violence is that which is seen in the Rome derby, where you have people being stabbed. We’re used to seeing ugly incidents outside stadiums, but this time nothing happened.
Women and children fled the stadium? This is not true, we have been attentive to this situation.”
Fileni also commented that they had not planned for things to unfold this way, but the manner of the defeat was too much to
take and they decided to take action, further commenting:
“Up to 3-0 we cheered as usual. There was no premeditation [to humiliate the players], but then what prevailed was a mixture of anger and concern. It was more concern in truth,
because we risk relegation and that was a turning point.”
The ultras’ had demanded the shirts of the players as they deemed them not worthy of the Grifone jersey. Genoa captain, Marco
Rossi, consequently collected the shirts of all players and handed them over to the fans.
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