- Roma players wore ‘Forza Sean’ shirts in training on Tuesday afternoon
- It was a mark of support to Liverpool fan Sean Cox who was attacked last week
- Cox, 53, was the victim of an unprovoked attack by Roma Ultras outside Anfield
- Roma’s president Jim Pallotta has labelled his club’s hooligans as ‘f****** morons’
Roma’s players have trained in ‘Forza Sean’ shirts in a mark of support to Liverpool fan Sean Cox who was attacked ahead of last week’s Champions League game at Anfield.
Cox, 53, was the victim of an unprovoked attack by Roma Ultras outside the ground ahead of the first leg of the semi-final.
He sustained a severe bleed to the head and remains in an induced coma at Walton Hospital in Liverpool.
Roma’s players wore ‘Forza Sean’ t-shirts in training on Tuesday afternoon in Rome
It was a mark of support by Roma’s players for Liverpool fan Sean Cox who was attacked
On Tuesday, Roma’s players, who are preparing for the second leg in Rome on Wednesday night, wore shirts with Sean’s name on the front.
It comes after Roma’s president Jim Pallotta labelled the hooligan element of the club’s support as ‘f****** morons’.
Two Roma fans have been charged for their part in the incident but there are concerns that worse will follow on Wednesday night, with 5,000 Liverpool fans expected to head for Rome.
Pallotta said: ‘We have a long history at Roma and what’s going on when you have a few stupid people is that they destroy our history and they attack our legacy and I’m tired of it,’ he is quoted as saying in the interview.
‘It’s not just an issue for Rome. It’s an issue for Italy and it’s an issue for the authorities and it’s an issue for all of (us) to band together and to finally wake up so that we don’t have a reputation – that’s not deserved around the rest of the world – that our fans are not good fans because our fans are the best fans in the world – it’s just a couple of f****** morons that take the rest of us down.
‘What I want to talk about is how these games are great but they’re not life and death.
‘What’s going on right now with Sean Cox in Liverpool, that’s life and death and that affects his family.
‘I don’t really give a s*** about the score of the game.
‘It’s disappointing to me that Rome and AS Roma get blamed for a few individuals who do stupid things.’
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