football... the non-american kind

i can't take credit for being the instigator of this portion of my trip, but i have to say it was quite the experience!

San Siro: Inter Milan v. Tottenham

it so happened that the person traveling with me was hugely excited that his team, Tottenham, was playing Inter Milan while we were in town.  so one evening we ventured into the city, parked our car, and walked through the streets nearing the stadium where vendors were selling all sorts of sports paraphernalia.  my favorite is the scarf that is a "half and half" it has one team on one end and the opposing team on the other.

i don't know much about soccer (football, i'm american ok, to me it's soccer)...  only what i pick up during world cup every few years and quickly forget...  but apparently the match i saw was one of the beginning matches of the Champion's League, which from what i understand is like the world series of soccer.  and last year, Inter won the whole thing!

these fans mean business, and of course because they are Italians they are passionate about it!  

check it out:

 

 it was a pretty full house!

they are also take exiting the stadium after the match pretty seriously... they ask you to stay in your seats until they instruct you to exit by section!  none of the guys i was with were to keen on this and we left a little early to avoid it... in doing so missing my personal favorite part of the match at the end where the players swap jerseys!