Milan History: Memories of Kilpin

kilpins-memoriesKilpin’s memories will remain an inexhaustible source of news and interesting stories, with a kind of legacy that only Rocco will provide about fifty years later. Kilpin being Milan’s number one patron, said that once he was called in to referee a game whereby one of the two linesmen opened an umbrella to shelter himself from the rain while indicating the offsides. For Kilpin that was too strange and contrary to the way the game was played. He asked his linesman to do what all participants do during a rainy football match, and therefore close the umbrella and let the rain soak himself just like everyone else.

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