Roma fans leave carrots for out-of-form players at training ground
Tuesday 1 December 2015 15:12, UK
Roma supporters, infuriated by their team's faltering form, let the players know how they feel on Tuesday by presenting them with carrots.
Around 50 supporters turned up at the Trigoria training ground with boxes of the vegetable.
A banner helped to explain the coded meaning of the unusual gift: "Bon Appetit Rabbits," it read. In Italian, the word for rabbit, "coniglio", is synonymous with coward.
Roma's French manager Rudi Garcia is under pressure after a 6-1 thrashing by Barcelona in the Champions League last week was followed by a 2-0 home defeat to Atalanta on Sunday.
The Barca reverse left the club's hopes of advancing to the knockout stages of Europe's elite competition in the balance.
Runners-up to Juventus for the last two seasons, Roma currently stand fourth in Serie A, four points adrift of leaders Napoli.
Tuesday's protest was not the first time the worlds of football and fruit and veg have collided in Italy.
When the national squad was knocked out of the 1966 World Cup by North Korea, the players were famously pelted with rotten tomatoes on their return home.
