No, it's not the plot for a new Martin Scorsese film, but the reality of the deadly world of the Ultras - the violent far-right Italian football thugs known as 'foot-soldiers of the Mafia'.

No photo of the Derby della Madonnina is more iconic than the one featuring Inter’s Marco Materazzi and Milan’s Rui Costa in their ... game of the European football calendar.

"Materazzi was nicknamed something like a butcher; he is not really a gentle player. Rui Costa was the opposite - more gentle, more artistic in his football ... 2004-05 campaign as Italian ...

Inter legend Marco Materazzi will watch tonight’s Champions League semi-final against Milan alongside Nerazzurri ultras in Curva Nord. The 2006 Italy World Cup winner had asked his Instagram ...

Thirteen Middlesbrough fans were taken to hospital, some with stab wounds, after a masked gang of Rome's infamous "ultras" ­ hyper-violent football ... organised gang of Italian thugs" set ...