The stop is between us and what do you want to do about it? Let’s hope it passes quickly.
And let’s go with the barrage of phrases, phrases, whatever.
Ladies and gentlemen, we are at the refereeing paradox: in Italy there are two regulations, one in the penalty area and one outside. And in fact the whistles are no longer understanding anything, because “outside” certain cheap interventions let them (rightly) run, but “inside” they can’t, because the regulation says “this is rigor! There’s steponfut!”. And then a referee who is consistent with his standards ends up looking like an idiot because oh, inside the area that’s a foul. Moral: our referees may not be perfect, but having generated this bit of “rate” in the penalty area is certainly not helping them.
The mutiny on penalties at Milan is not trivial. I mean, you can lose a match, let alone against the beautiful Fiorentina the other night, but everything else is not admissible. It is not acceptable to see a captain who misses a penalty by stealing it from his teammate and gets kicked out after the game is over. It is not acceptable to see a defender jumping to catch a ball to offer to his “friend” (Abraham) but not jumping enough when it comes to not letting his opponents score a goal. It is unacceptable that Fonseca is unable to command respect. It is unacceptable for anyone to speak after the match other than Gabbia, one of the few Rossoneri players who seems to have understood what it means to be a “Milan” player. If the Devil’s fans are disappointed at the moment it is not so much or just because of the results (after all, the ranking is very short), but because of a feeling of “general disorder” to which they are not historically accustomed.
The footballer Marco Curto was disqualified by FIFA for racism for having said to one of his teammates, in reference to an opponent (the South Korean Hee-Chan Hwang, striker of Wolverhampton), “Don’t listen to him. It feels like Jackie Chan.” Racism is a serious, very serious thing. This decision, however, is ridiculous, the result of the prevailing “political correctness” and trivializes a problem that does not deserve to be trivialized.
Como offers drinks to its fans when the team wins matches, gives concerts at the stadium, does charity without telling it and, the other day, listened to its fans (it doesn’t happen often in our football): they, the fans, they told how much the Neapolitan welcome was appreciated for Napoli-Como, the club responded with an enlightened initiative (free beer for Neapolitans on the occasion of the return match). Well done to Como and its supporters, well done to the Napoli supporters, well done to everyone. Proving that very little is needed to elevate our battered football to something better.
One thing about Simone Inzaghi: Manchester United has been courting him for months and a phone call (through an intermediary) also arrived recently. Given that a transfer at this moment would obviously be impossible, the Inter coach confirmed that he is fine where he is. From Manchester they denied any type of approach, we confirm everything.
This thing about the Allegrians waiting for Juventus to take half a misstep to bust Thiago Motta’s balls and the anti-Allegrians who make references to the recent past with every victory is really sickening. Thiago Motta is doing a good job, the Leipzig match in the Champions League is a memory destined to remain, the only goal conceded after 7 league matches certifies a non-trivial solidity that cannot be questioned for one, two or even three draws . Let’s stop demanding the moon after two months of work, otherwise the ridiculous ones… are us.
Marco Baroni is not an idiot.
There are a lot of injuries, we are realizing it. For some people play too much, for others not. The fact is that the calendar is extremely busy and, above all, the players have changed in the last 30 years. Physically of course. Definitely larger muscle masses than in the past translate into a greater possibility of getting hurt. If we add a frankly inhuman number of games, the result is this. So what do we do? Shall we reduce competitions? It will never happen because you have to cash in. Just as the players will never give up their succulent wages. And then we just need to hope for two things: 1) Increasing rotations within the squads. 2) In luck.