In the confused guerrilla war underway, the twenty-year-old Italian fan of San Giorgio a Cremano, Sergio Ercolano, on his second away match, tries to escape the indiscriminate charges of the police.
In a panic he climbs onto a stand and jumps (or is he pushed?) down onto a plexiglass roof which cannot support his weight, leaving him to fall into a ditch where he loses consciousness and is dying due to the very serious injuries sustained in the flight from ten meters high (severe head trauma and injuries to internal organs). The late and difficult rescue of the young fan (almost half an hour to find the keys to the entrance gate to the ditch where he had fallen), unfortunately useless, aroused anger and a ferocious desire for revenge in the Neapolitan Ultras who invaded the pitch, beating and beating the police and destroying any object in sight.
The match was no longer played for obvious reasons of public order (a 3-0 victory was awarded to Avellino). Sergio died two days later in the intensive care unit at the "San Giuseppe Moscati" hospital in Avellino due to cardiac arrest. "You can't die like this, you can't die for a football match" his mother Carmela kept repeating in the morgue.

CP PARLA ESCUELA – FAIR PLAY: Nando, Álvaro, Magan, David Serrano, Miguel Muelas (More, 69’), Adrián Romero (Javito, 75’), Salmerón (Pantrigo, 76’), Almendros, Suso, Greci (Fernández, 75’) and Manu García (Fuentes, 59’).

Died 24 January, 2019
Durham, England