There was one other twist within the unusual story of the insulting Fiorentina tifo through the sport towards Juventus, because the native authorities are additionally imposing fines.
The expectations had been that the Viola followers would have a message welcoming their bitter rivals to the Stadio Artemio Franchi for final weekend’s Serie A showdown, which ended 3-0 for the hosts.
Nonetheless, many thought of the message all throughout the stands to be past the standard stage of membership mockery and tipped over into being an unseemly insult.
Fiorentina had been and given a warning that additional breaches may see them hit with a stadium ban.
Fiorentina followers introduced a faux tifo
Now there’s a new twist with information that the native authorities have fined 11 Tuscan supporters €166 every for sitting in seats that had not been assigned to them.
The massive challenge is the twelfth fan, who within the stands to the one which had been agreed upon with the Safety Group (GOS).
This means that the Fiorentina followers introduced a design to the native authorities earlier than the match and got the all-clear, then modified it as soon as they had been in place to the insulting phrase.
Had they confirmed this was going to be the plan all alongside, they’d not have been allowed to go forward with the tifo.
If it had been a banner, then this might’ve been inspected and banned from getting into the stadium, however the message was spelled out in small squares of paper.