The controversy continued well after the final whistle of Inter’s 4-3 win away to Fiorentina, with reports Viola President Rocco Commisso tried to break down the locker room door.
It was a chaotic match decided in stoppages by Henrikh Mkhitaryan and there were several contentious incidents, above all Federico Dimarco not seeing red for his knee-high foul on Giacomo Bonaventura and a possible Edin Dzeko foul in the build-up to the final goal.
There was tension at the final whistle and a scuffle broke out on the touchline.
According to news agency ANSA and La Gazzetta dello Sport, the row continued into the tunnel of the Stadio Artemio Franchi and Fiorentina President Commisso allegedly punched the locker room door, trying to smash it down.
Fiorentina have already denied this was the version of events, insisting that it was director general Joe Barone who opened a door that had been incorrectly closed, which leads from the VIP seating area to the tunnel and the locker rooms.
La Repubblica and Firenzeviola.it, meanwhile, report that in the VIP seating area there was an exchange of some extremely heated words between directors Barone and Beppe Marotta.