By Chris Wright
Compared to David Villa’s delirious welcome parade at Atletico Madrid, Mario Gomez’s unveiling at Fiorentina was an altogether more sedate affair, though only just, as 20,000 Viola fans swarmed into the Stadio Artemio Franchi to greet their new €17million-ish striker and his wonderfully sculpted obsidian hair-wave…
You’ll no doubt also be glad to know that Gomez’s ridiculously catchy unofficial theme song has been updated to include the lanky striker in Fiorentina colours…
We’ll be singing that bloody thing all day now.