Michel Vorm is someone who has experienced the atmosphere on a football night in Naples before but Swans fans will be hoping that he manages the same feat as last time he played there when he kept a clean sheet for his former side Utrecht.

A 0-0 scoreline in Naples followed a 3-3 draw in Holland in a European tie but a clean sheet for the Dutch keeper tomorrow night could see the Swans progress even if they may need extra time and penalties to do it.

But Vorm is first warning his team mates to steel themselves for one of the most hostile receptions they could have with 60,000 crammed into the Stadio San Paolo with the large percentage of them baying for a home win in a way that few will have experienced.

The Swans will have their own travelling army of supporters but Vorm says that whilst the Swans fans are football crazy, the Napoli fans are something else and talks about the players bus being banged on the sides all the way from the hotel to the stadium which should make for an incredible atmosphere inside the ground.

Vorm played in front of the Anfield Kop on Sunday - an area that is renowned the world over for supposedly one of the best atmospheres (from experience a reputation greatly exaggerated?) but this could be something difference as the Dutch keeper explained

“I don’t want to make it worse so people are afraid when they go out on the pitch, but it’s going to be hostile,” he said.

“Naples is an amazing and beautiful city but, when I was there with Utrecht, the travel from the hotel to the stadium before the game was something else.

“People were on the street by the bus and banging on the sides for the whole trip.

“It’s different, but you have to cope with it and it’s something that I enjoy. Even if it’s hostile, this is football.

“In Swansea people are football crazy, but over there it’s another level. For people there, Napoli is everything.

“But that’s why you play football, for this atmosphere. It may be hostile for us but it’s something you look forward.

“It’s good. We’ve been to Romania and Russia this season as well as other places and I enjoy seeing other countries.”

Swans fans making the trip to Naples can expect to sample that hostility inside the ground but the one thing we all have to be is loud and proud and make sure that we don't get drowned out in the atmosphere and maybe the odd early goal from us could just dampen down the noise and give us the advantage against the odds?

We can try anyway!

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