It’s fair to say that in the ranking of controversial footballing figures, former Leeds United owner Massimo Cellino will always make an appearance.
Cellino owned Leeds between 2014 and 2017 and oversaw a turbulent period at Elland Road, to say the least, full of managerial comings and goings, strange transfers and failure to get out of the Championship.
He departed in 2017, having initially sold 50% of his shares to Andrea Radrizzani in January before selling the other half to him the following summer and returning to Italy.
That same year he bought Serie B side Brescia and has been up to his old tricks ever since, with managers coming and going at a frequent rate and the 2017/18 season seeing four in the dugout.
Still, there is no excuse for what has recently happened there, as Tuttosport are reporting today how the former Leeds owner has found himself something of a target.
The newspaper say Cellino was the ‘victim of an attempted assault’ when this group of unknown persons were waiting for him with ‘belts in hand’.
A complain has been filed, with the club’s general manager, Luigi Micheli, condemning the actions in a statement released by the club.
“There is a protest going on that has gone beyond civilised coexistence,” Brescia Ingol report him saying.
“Banners are one thing, what happened two Fridays ago when there was egg throwing towards the offices, inside which there were people working, is quite another.
“Two days ago some people tried to attack Cellino on the way out of Torbole, there were even belts… All this, a club cannot tolerate. Now complaints will be made: those who do certain things must take responsibility.
“A climate has been created dictated also by a denigrating campaign by a part of the Brescian press. We are being described as a society of runaways.”
