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We broke up on September 29, less than three months ago. You remember? Probably yes. At least, every Inter fan worth his salt has not forgotten. Because sometimes (or many times) in football there are theoretically secondary appendages that, however, who knows why abstruse device, become decisive, even more than the game. Most do not know the reasons. The fact is, however, that there are often implicated Bury (or I always do). The result is that, behind every Nerazzurri victory, there seems to be a constant desire to blur and diminish all satisfaction, to reduce efforts, to seek the fatal nit at every possible opportunity. And this, frankly, is not acceptable. No longer.
We broke up on September 29, we said. You remember? That day we faced, not without understandable regret, the issue of the five changes. ‘Guilty’ of having reversed the result against Fiorentina (4-3) thanks to the entry into the field of Sensi, Hakimi, Vidal, Nainggolan and Sánchez, in fact, Inter had suddenly become the manifest of the alteration of football, of its essence of fatigue and sacrifice. “Too many five substitutions, come on. Bury the small teams!As if, in an instant, having a long, rich squad was a shame to hide under the bed, as if such a circumstance had never occurred in the last decades of the sport.
Too bad, however, if you look at the numbers, on matchday twelfth of the championship, Inter is only sixth for changes made, behind Lazio, Benevento (!), Genoa (!), Spezia (!) And Sassuolo. It matters little. From the second day of the championship onwards, we have seen the debate magically dissolve into thin air. Since the end of September, raise your hand if you have heard someone on television or read in the newspapers about the problem of the five changes. Challenge accepted.
After almost three months of apparent equilibrium, (re) here is dejavù. Shame soon returned. The right opportunity came with Inter-Napoli. Poor Massa ended up in the public pillory this time, guilty of having sent off a player, in this case the blue captain, Lorenzo Insigne, for having literally sent him to hell on live television and with clearly audible audio, given the absence fans in a San Siro obviously defected.
We ask ourselves: since when have referees been asked not to apply the rules? Since when can a player disrespect the referee in front of everyone and undermine his authority on the field without paying the consequences? Has it ever happened that a defense campaign was started against the accused and an accusation against the offended party? We are probably asking ourselves the wrong questions. On the other hand, just by reading or turning on the television you will come across a myriad cloying and indecent of “He had to cover his ears !!“,”Faked the game!“,”Inappropriate and insensitive referee!Phrases that have evoked the garbage cans instead of the heart and various fruits. But let’s get back to ourselves.
The problem is not so much discussing an arbitration decision. In Italy, although we live in the VAR era, it is a daily exercise and we fear immortality. The problem here is that, once again, there has been a campaign to put an asterisk on Inter and their victories. Suddenly, the referee has to cover his ears and accept insults so as not to distort the games. So, however, let’s talk about good examples for young people, model behaviors, paradigms. Only when it’s convenient, of course. The best journalists in Italy have worked to decriminalize foul language and crime. But then we take it out on the fans (we hope they will return soon) who, perhaps, will send their rivals to that country. Where do these contradictions come from? Where does this inconsistency and this dialectical and thinking schizophrenia come from? We hope, at least, that they come in good faith.
Unfortunately, however, these discussions make anyone think that this is something different. And those who face certain frankly embarrassing scenes cannot be condemned. Like the one related to the controversy about foreigners in the field. And if Marcello Lippi and Italian journalism attacked Inter in 2010, who had won everything but were not a true Italian team since they lined up eleven foreigners, now that Inter has practically half of an Italian team and that there are other companies that do not even deploy one, the controversy is no longer necessary. It just doesn’t exist anymore.
It will be a coincidence but, when you have to make a scandal, Inter is always in the center of the cauldron. You don’t need to dig too deep to figure it out. Another lousy page of the football discussion in Italy (and Italian journalism). And all this would be the moment to say enough. Because even shame can have a limit. In fact, you must have it.
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