When an Italian Club President AMBUSHED the Referee #football

Nothing compares with the Italian mentality.They're just barmy.Nasty.Nasty.Ajax against Torino.First leg in Turin.

This is 1992.And from the moment we landed, and this happened quite a lot when you did European games in my day, it was subtle bribery all the way.Anything they could do to persuade you that they were the bee's knees and they deserve the result, they'd do.And they wanted to measure us up for Armani suits.We got everything we wanted.Before the game, which was at the Stadio degli Alpi, the old stadium in Turin, 65 ,000 in on the night.

There's some Fiat cars.The car's going round the track, you know, advertising.You like the car?I said, oh, it's lovely.He said, we'll have one fucking delivered to you if you like.

I was, whoa, whoa, whoa.Fucking calm down.

Anyway, we did the game, and with about 15 minutes to go, Torino are winning 2 -1. And you're thinking, she's going nicely now.Anyway, with about 15 minutes to go, Joe Worrell gives a penalty.Dennis Bergkamp was playing for Ajax.He went into the box, went down.Penalty.I think it was Wim Jong came up, smacked it in.

2 -2. But they've only drawn 2 -1, and they know they've blown it, Torino.the pitch, four of us, the president of Torino's coming down towards us.And on each side of the tunnel, there are the Italian Carabinieri with fucking cock rifles, right?And you're thinking, this isn't going well.And this president coming through a bunch of Joe Waller missed him, thankfully, and got ushered away.But it was, and you're thinking, fucking hell, what's going on here?