Serie A’s two Milanese sides have provided inaccurate data regarding attendance at the Giuseppe Meazza.

La Repubblica and the Corriere dello Sport are reporting that the numbers that Inter and AC Milan have provided the league on gameday sales and season tickets do not match those recorded by the turnstiles, which are manned and operated by Milan’s police prefecture . Oh dear.

Whilst the latter claim that 662.425 fans entered the stands of the Giuseppe Meazza… the two clubs claim 801.442 did. For those counting at home, that’s 138.997 who have either disappeared into thin air… or who never existed in the first place.

That’s an average of around 8.000 fans of game who may never have attended in the first place. Inter’s average attendance so far has been of 50.557 fans, first in the league to their City rival’s 5th (with 34.428 per league game).

We could well witness the intervention of the Italian police and magistrature.