Letter from Milan: Magnificent San Siro but gloomy weather fits mood of travelling Gooners

The distinct, angular muscularity of the magnificent San Siro looks for all the world like a fevered sketch from the pen of Leonardo da Vinci.

San Siro in the Milan mist. Photo: @laythy29

Deep blue windless skies on a gloriously late autumnal afternoon in Lombardy gave way to a forbidding thick mist.

The evening fog settled fast, and was thick, and gloomy. So dense you couldn’t see the snow-dusted jagged Alps that fringe the city of Milan so attractively on a clear day.