Tuttosport: San Siro becomes ‘icy and grey cathedral’ amid evident fan detachment | OneFootball

While AC Milan might have the best attendance in Serie A, but playing at home has been far from comforting in recent weeks.

As Tuttosport (via MilanPress) writes this morning, all of the declarations about sold-out games and getting over 70,000 fans through the gates are not enough to make an image different from the reality.

Instead of being a fortress, San Siro has become ‘an icy and grey cathedral, increasingly cold and disenchanted’. The paper underlines the now evident detachment between the Rossoneri fans and the club that they support.

When Germano Lanzoni – known as ‘Gegio’, the San Siro announcer – read the teams out the fans used to shout players’ surnames back at him. Now they no longer do, and this is both due to the fact many are under-performing, but also a large presence of foreign fans who perhaps aren’t used to it.

In the last nine league games, Milan’s average is 1.1 points per game, a trajectory that if repeated over a whole season would have them in a relegation battle. The disaffection arises from this, but also from the increasingly minimal approval towards the management.

The chants against Gerry Cardinale and Paolo Scaroni are now a consistent soundtrack at the San Siro, as is the discontent towards Giorgio Furlani and Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who are not facing the media as much as supporters expect.