I became a juve fan in 1995.The previous year milan had lost to ajax in the CL finals n i felt bad since i was supporting the Italians.So when in 95/96 another Italian side (Juve) came up against Milan in the finals,i was rooting for Juve.Dramatic finale;superb ravanelli goal(great build-up from Alex) n late ajax equalizer.However The Old Lady carried the day n i fell in love.
The love i feel today is so much stronger than the one i felt when i first fell in love(I hope my marriage goes that way too!),I do not know at what stage she ENTIRELY won my heart;but these days fan is a mild term to describe the way i feel about her.
I'v notebooks from as far back as 1999 filled with various player formations from the era of the likes of Zanchi,Blanchard,Morkovic,Paramatti,Peruzzi,Rampulla.............
Match reports from such epochal games as that massive CL game against Fenerbahce in Turkey,the CL thriller against Celtic at the Delle Alpi,our 5-1 bashing aginst Lazio(Nedved was still a Roman then!!),the 2-2 draw against Roma in the season they won the League...............................
My memorabillia collection includes a muffler,two pin badges,a beach towel,a pair of socks(got a hole in them now!),flash disk/I.D. card holder n d outgone season's away league jersey.
The way I see it it's a win-win situation for us.If we are relegated,we will get a chance to build some of the younger players(volpato,palladino,chiumento..) n work our way back to the Serie A inj no time(ask Fiorentina!)
If we are not relegated,but deducted scudetti;then we can take that anger n use it to fuel our drive towards a massive season where we shut-up all naysayers with our on-field displays.
However it pans out,sorry Del Vecchia Signora-U'R STUCK WITH ME