He's young, Italian, we have an anti-Italian crew around here, so.. you do the math.
Really? So why does his partner in Samp's attack gets so much love then? Cassano is Italian and only 2 years older than Pazzini.
I like it how some went on a counter-attack here and blame it all on hate for Italians.
People simply want the better players. The fact that there aren't many WC players in Italy at the moment, makes people choose a non-Italian when it's between a non-Italian and an Italian, simply because the foreigner is better.
Give them a possibility of signing Cassano or De Rossi and you will see how much they "hate" the Italians.
The problem isn't the so called "Anti-Italian crew". That crew is in the imagination of those who'd prefer Italians over anything else. The problem are some fanboys who will prefer an Italian even if the Italian is the inferior player.
Start a poll and ask who would people prefer between G.Rossi and Dzeko or van Persie and see how many votes will Rossi get. At least 1/3 of the votes.
Will it be because he's the better player?
But if there is a poll between Pazzini and an inferior non-Italian, all of those "Anti-Azzurri" will vote for Pazzini.