With the Fleet’s recent successes on the pitch Gianfranco has a lot to tell his friends back in Italy, but there is still one person that Gianfranco, like most football fans, can never win over - and that is his wife, who can’t understand the importance of watching football anyway, let alone over 500 miles away.
Thursday, 20 October 2011
Fan travels from Italy to watch Ebbsfleet
You may not associate Blue Square Bet Premier side Ebbsfleet United as being the most glamorous or attractive football club around Europe, but for one fan travelling to Stonebridge Road from his home in Turin is better than watching his native AC Milan. After tossing his Milan season ticket to one side, Gianfranco Giordano, a policeman back home, hopes to make the 1,000 mile round trip to most home games to support the Fleet. His reasoning for his unquestionable commitment is the love of watching 'real footballers'. Giordano said: “I like the players, the little clubs, because they are men, they are football players not superstars.” His journey begins by flying into Stansted from Turin, he then takes a coach into central London and catches a train to Ebbsfleet station.
With the Fleet’s recent successes on the pitch Gianfranco has a lot to tell his friends back in Italy, but there is still one person that Gianfranco, like most football fans, can never win over - and that is his wife, who can’t understand the importance of watching football anyway, let alone over 500 miles away.
With the Fleet’s recent successes on the pitch Gianfranco has a lot to tell his friends back in Italy, but there is still one person that Gianfranco, like most football fans, can never win over - and that is his wife, who can’t understand the importance of watching football anyway, let alone over 500 miles away.
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