“I’m a fan of inter”. The Nerazzurri’s advertising campaign in the months immediately following Calciopoli was, at least in my opinion, simply spectacular. Those three words, or rather the last, then took on multiple concepts. Cheering for the Beloved didn’t just mean belonging to your favorite team. But also, given the precise historical context, a sort of claim to be honest, clean, decent people.
Precise characteristics, which over the years have always been highlighted by clubs and supporters of the Biscione. Even that: “Everyone has their own story, we have ours and we are proud of it”, proudly specified in 2017, was then a subsequent demonstration.
There is. Leaving football aside for a moment, I am a person who turns the other cheek in everyday life as long as he can, and really thinks the world would be a better place if everyone helped each other. Without that arrogance and pettiness masked in cunning can get the better of good intentions. This does not mean always saying yes and indulging in everything and for everything else. Just claim fairness. And instead of passing the concept of “what makes us” and “I also had his money and his power, I would do the same” try to always be balanced and objective.
All this preamble I need not to announce the release of my very personal heart book. But only and exclusively to say that the VAR, during Inter-Juventus in 2018, could not intervene. The rules, even today, would not allow it. Pjanic’s on Rafinha was not a direct red foul. So to go back to that episode by claiming that the electronic eye should have stirred the Race Director is wrong. And it would mean carrying out a campaign with a fallacious basis. Attention: the Bosnian undoubtedly deserved the second yellow. And then the red card. It was a very serious mistake, which certainly proved decisive in that specific match. And probably also for the final result of the championship. There will never be a counter-proof. But if Spalletti’s Inter had won against Juve – as they deserved – maybe Napoli would not have “lost the Tricolore in the locker room”. Points of view. Hypotheses to discuss for days, weeks, years.
But since intellectual honesty is the basis of the work of the journalist (or at least it should be so) and of all those people who still give importance to sound principles, it seems right to applaud the hyenas – very good, really – but also underline, once again, as per regulation terms, the VAR could not intervene. That the offending audio then disappeared and that thus new suspicions arise, is another further and consequential discourse on which I do not intervene.
But let everyone use their own head, find out about the situation and the current and past rules, and try to make an objective speech. Whichever team they belong to. At least they can correct their mistakes. And who, addressing the world, boasts of being loyal and respectful of rules and judgments, can, if he made a mistake, retrace his steps. And don’t exhibit revoked Scudetti in your own facility
Because declaring A, and then behaving like B, is an attitude of someone who would have deserved the C.
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