Italian pre-match banter can appear overwhelmingly good-natured, especially to people from some other football-mad European countries.
Part of this apparent friendliness though may be down to the tendency of some Italian fans to ‘gufare‘, or to praise opponents before a match in the hope of ‘jinxing’ them.
Still, Italian fans had a few points they wanted to make to England supporters before the two teams meet at Wembley on Sunday night.
Florence FC questioned which “home” football would be coming to, given that the city’s famously rough calcio storico predates the more genteel modern game by several hundred years.
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