After their last home fixture, a group of ultras dictated
terms, blockading players within the San Siro Stadium in protest over the worst
start to a season since the 1980s.
Six days later, the vice-president Adriano Galliani
announced he would step down after 28 years as a Milan executive.
Galliani, criticised by fans for transfer strategy and
for what is perceived as too fierce a loyalty to head coach Max Allegri, had
been engaged a very public power struggle with Barbara Berlusconi, who sits on
the AC Milan board and is the daughter of owner Silvio Berlusconi.
Berlusconi senior, meanwhile, has problems outside his
beloved football club, the former Italian prime minister having been
effectively expelled from the country’s Senate because of a conviction for tax
fraud.
