Inter director Marco Fassone said San Siro fans are “more refined” than Napoli supporters ahead of tomorrow’s match.
It kicks off at 19.45 UK time (18.45 GMT), click here for a match preview.
Inter director Marco Fassone said San Siro fans are “more refined” than Napoli supporters ahead of tomorrow’s match.
It kicks off at 19.45 UK time (18.45 GMT), click here for a match preview.
This will be a reunion for Coach Walter Mazzarri and general manager Fassone, who both worked together at Napoli before coming to San Siro.
“In the two years I spent at Napoli, I rarely heard fans in the more expensive seats jeering,” Fassone told the Corriere del Mezzogiorno newspaper.
“The Neapolitan fan is more easily swept up in a wonderful move. Inter fans, not those in the Curva, are much more demanding. They love beautiful football, bitterly criticising even the great players.
“It’s a more refined supporter compared to the Neapolitan and has much higher expectations. From Jose Mourinho’s era onwards, here there is the belief that you have to win always and at all costs.
“When that didn’t happen, and as time went on, the criticism aimed at his successors became increasingly bitter.
“At Juventus you could sense the end of an era after Gianni and Umberto Agnelli died. Napoli had a more populist climate, while Inter had the nobility of a club that knew it had to sweat more than others to fight the power.”