Defiant director says front page was ‘innocent’Smalling’s club, Roma, hits out at the paperThe Italian newspaper Corriere dello Sport has defended its widely condemned front-page headline “Black Friday” which featured Romelu Lukaku and Chris Smalling as the former
Manchester United players prepare to face each other in Serie A on Friday.
The front page was heavily criticised but the paper’s director, Ivan Zazzaroni, produced a remarkable defence, saying it was “innocent” and that the article by the journalist Roberto Perrone had “been made poisonous by those who have poison inside them”.