Roma president Jim Pallotta attacks violent ‘morons’ among club’s fans

• Pallotta criticises fans who are ‘destroying our history’
• Alleged assault of Liverpool fan Sean Cox ‘disgusting stupidity’

The Roma president, Jim Pallotta, has launched a furious attack on a section of the club’s fans, warning that a violent minority of “fucking morons” are destroying the club’s reputation and hurting Italian football more widely.

In an expletive-laden interview on Roma’s website, the US investor who took control of the club in 2011 criticised those supporters who cause unrest at and around matches and labelled Tuesday’s alleged assault of the Liverpool fan Sean Cox, which left the 53-year-old in a critical condition, the “most disgusting stupidity”.

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