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Italian politicians condemned the sale of T-shirts reading “The Hammers vs. the Mafia” before West Ham’s UEFA Cup match against Sicilian side Palermo.
“The T-shirt gesture . . . is deplorable,” Carlo Vizzini, a former member of the Italian parliament’s anti-Mafia commission, was quoted as saying Friday by Italian news agency ANSA. “Perhaps it would be suitable for West Ham . . . to apologize to Palermo’s citizens.”
The T-shirts were on sale outside West Ham’s Upton Park stadium before Thursday’s game in the first round of European soccer’s second-tier competition. The London club lost the match 1-0.
Sicily’s governor, Salvatore Cuffaro, said that the T-shirts were “an offense to all Sicilians,” who were “tired” of outdated stereotypes.
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