LUCIANO Spalletti has taken Napoli to the top of Serie A and into the Champions League last 16 this season - just months after Italian club’s ultras stole his beloved Fiat Panda from outside their team hotel following a bad run of results and informed him they would only return it if he quit his job.
So it is maybe no surprise that he thinks the “taxi for Giovanni van Bronckhorst” calls which have emanated from disgruntled Rangers fans in recent weeks are uncalled for and is confident his opposite number can get the Ibrox outfit motoring once again if he is given time.
Van Bronckhorst is under intense pressure going into the Group A encounter with the section leaders in the Diego Armando Maradona Stadium here tomorrow evening and is well aware that another heavy and humiliating reverse will lead to fresh demands for him to be replaced.
