‘He liked that people were scared of him’: my year unpicking fantasy and reality with a veteran of Italy’s football ultras

I’ve met many hardcore, violent fans, but the hostage-negotiating, cocaine-smuggling, Marxist-Leninist Alessandro Casolari still stood out By Tobias Jones. Read by Bert Seymour. Help support our independent journalism at <a href="theguardian.com/longreadpod">theguardi…;