Roberto Gotta in Italy

Until Milan scored their first goal in surreal silence - in fact, you could hear their players celebrating - a pastime of most people inside the Luigi Ferraris Stadium in Genoa had been 'spot the rossonero'. There was an away fan ban for fear of a Genoese reprisal for the killing of one of their number back in 1995, but since most bans in Italy are respected as much as a 'no ogling' sign on a nudist beach, a trickle of fans were supposed to have made their way to the coast of Liguria.