Attending Milan matches

It looks like I will be in Europe from May 9th thru June 4th, traveling around Italy, Holland, Belgium etc. and I'd, of course, like to see a Milan match live. I am pretty sure that Milan play Brescia (I think its Brescia) on Sunday May 16th. So I have few questions to those who've attended a match before:
First if all, is this a home match (I am assuming, since I think we played Brescia at their place already)? Around what time in the day would the match be played?
How to get tickets? How much in general do tickets cost?
Easiest way to get to the San Siro (I assume I will be taking a train from Rome)?
Best seats to buy, without going totally broke?
Any halfway decent not terribly expensice hotels in the area?

Thanks for any help you all can give me in this matter. I would be pretty disappointed if I was Italy and didn't do everything I could to see Milan play a match live and in person.

RIO

Giovanni is probably the best person to answer these questions: damn him
Giovanni ...........

RIO: Don't forget your camera! We are counting on you to live vicariously through your experience at San Siro!

I will asnwer with many details very soon..

Hyai Heather.

How dare you travel to europe without noticing me first and without visiting the central "can't miss" place of Luleå, Sweden?

As for Milano, get a map with the metro and bus routes marked, with that you can't go wrong there. to make it better, you pay for tickets for one hour or one day (cheap) and can use that ticket for both the buses, metro and city trains. San Siro is located in the north-west part of Milano and the only way to get there (except walking) is by bus, there is many overcrowded buses going there.

As for match ticket prices, I would suggest you look at the official site, don't they have their online booking there still? Then you can check prices for the different sections. opinions differ on which places are the best.

Are you going to meet up with ... that communist colleberator in Belgium?

Originally Posted by kris

Are you going to meet up with ... that communist colleberator in Belgium?

i am from Belgium, but which person do you mean with 'communist colleberator' ??

Btw, if you come to Belgium, come and visit me (i live at the North Sea), we can have a few belgian beers then

The closest metro stop is Lotto Station..from there u can catch a bus and go till San Siro.u will see many people still in the metro with scarfs and red and black stuffs..just seek them.

U can reach Lotto Station from the central line, from the Duomo for sure..

For tickets: it's better for u to find tickets before, but if u don't find them go in the San Siro area and u will find loads of them on the black market.
Anyway u can look for them at the Milan Points around Milano.

If u look for a quiet place, go in the second orange ring (secondo anello arancio)

If u look for a close view of our heroes..go to First ring (primo anello)..choose among green (not very cool, near away supporters as well, but u will take great pics of Curva Sud on the other side of the stadium), red (very expensive, u can see many vips, maybe u will be sitted near El Berluska), blue (just under the Curva Sud, great views and atmosphere from the near Curva)

If u wanna be in the heart of our supporters and maybe take part to coreography go to Second Blue Ring (secondo anello blu, or Sud)

The cheaper places are at third ring, but i suppose u want to see very well...anyway the best place at third ring is the Red Ring.

If u attend at some derby or important match, remember that it's an Italian costume to get into the stadium very early, at least one hour before the kick start, and in these important matches even 2/3 hours before (if u go to Curva Sud)

If u have other questions, ask.
Cheers

Originally posted by Giovanni
If u attend at some derby or important match, remember that it's an Italian costume to get into the stadium very early, at least one hour before the kick start, and in these important matches even 2/3 hours before (if u go to Curva Sud)

It is spelled custom if you where not talking about something to wear.

Be in good time anyway, what takes time is to get there and I bet you would like to look around the little shops and food vendors around the stadium before the match. The lines to wait to go into the stadium is not that long and that part takes little or no time.

I got to see the serie A debut of Redondo, hopefully you will get to see something as exciting...

Or maybe I will go there and watch with you, I still have some plans to go down and see a game, depending on various circumstances.

Originally posted by kris
It is spelled custom if you where not talking about something to wear.

yes, i confuse it because in Italian we use the same word for the usual behavior and for the thing u dress.

Thank you Giovanni. I will be working on planning the trip in the coming weeks and may yet ask a few more questions.
Kris, I'll go to Sweden next time. If you are going to be there in Milan, just let me know. By that point I will probably be happy to see someone I "know", since I am sure that my limited skill at Italian (learned from my grandmother, so it's all orders) won't get me far. And well, of course, I will probably be experiencing some Communist central planning hopefully. You know, if the boss central planner will show me around town.

RIO

One question:where are u from?

Originally Posted by Giovanni

One question:where are u from?

acmilan the best

I have never been to a european football match and just have a few questions. How are non-Italian fans(mainly Americans) treated at the games? Now I go to college in new orleans and go to our american football games and I am a fairly roudy and loud fan, but how do the fans at the matches act? And is there some sort of etiquette at the matches?

Originally Posted by JakeM

I have never been to a european football match and just have a few questions. How are non-Italian fans(mainly Americans) treated at the games? Now I go to college in new orleans and go to our american football games and I am a fairly roudy and loud fan, but how do the fans at the matches act? And is there some sort of etiquette at the matches?

i don't know..they are threated like anybody else.
no etiquette ..swear as much as you want..if you are loud enough you can reach the curva sud, but that means you have to come there 2 hours before the match and find a seat which is not "booked" by the ultras..it works like this: the crowd of our end called curva in italian go at the opening of the gates, then we go into the second tier and with cellotape we take the sits..those ones are "booked", unless you come there for the opening of the game which is roughly at 1730 when the match is at 2030..if you arrive later on, the later you get in the harder you'll struggle to find a sit. That said, once you find you place, there are no rules there, instead if you don't sing (being italian-it's not supposed that foreigners must sing in italian) the speakers bash the people if they don't sing.
There isn't an etiquette at all, instead the only rule is there aren't rules..so you can smoke smelly plants as well as drink alcohol brought with you ( no glass inside the stadia -better to put into a plastic bottle) and be loud and free your ultras soul as much as you want

Originally Posted by JakeM

I have never been to a european football match and just have a few questions. How are non-Italian fans(mainly Americans) treated at the games? And is there some sort of etiquette at the matches?

I've been to 2 games and never had any problems, altho I don't sit near the ultras. I always noticed that the fans around my friend and I thought it was pretty cool we were Americans and were cheering as loudly as we could for Milan and were of course worshipping with them every time Maldini did anything. I think the only etiquette is that if you're among Milan fans then you are supporting the team.

Me, I'm from San Francisco, California, USA. My great grandparents were from Lucca and Bologna, though.

RIO