When Milan loses (but even draws or you don’t play well enough) I don’t write or comment on social media because I find them clogged with coaches, sports directors, managers, tactics, strategists, football professors who really know too much more than Maldini, Pioli and of course an old columnist sitting like me. So wrong formation, crazy changes, players to be thrown away, oh my God it’s a catastrophe. It is a game of massacre that does not belong to me, it does not belong to the generation that experienced Buticchi, Colombo, the betting scandal, 2 relegations, Giussy Farina and Yong Hong Li. We’ve seen them all, throwing away a Scudetto 4 days after a triumphant Cup Winners’ Cup and winning the Italian Cup (derby in the final with Inter, 2-0) a month after we saved ourselves from relegation … So I can’t tell you if every time Milan does not win or play badly it would have been better to play at the beginning with Tizio or Caio and replace them in the race with Sempronio or Mr. Brambilla. I have no counter-proof and I have not experienced ailments, conditions, tests, mental situation of each player day by day. I leave this exercise to those who know more. I just hope that the widespread panic after the karakiri with Don De Zerbi’s Sassuolo does not infect Milanello: away from home we have lost one (one!) Match throughout the season, a match that was not played and never started in La Spezia. So I am optimistic and confident before Rome, Turin 2 times and Bergamo, trusting that the anger for the monumental waste consumed at San Siro allows us not to throw ourselves out the window against Benevento and Turin. It takes balls and this team has proven many times that they have them.
I believe that the disastrous second round at home was conditioned first by the absences of the attackers in games to be won or not lost, then by a mental situation conditioned by the results that did not arrive. The injury issue is primary this season because the duty paid by the Rossoneri was and is too high to only curse against bad luck. There is a flaw in the circuit: it must be identified and it must be vigorously remedied because the future is too important. Relapses are becoming more obsessive than the injuries themselves. It’s not normal.
The baffling story of the SuperLeague was faced with an even more unbearable momentum and rhetoric than the same question. In one sense or another, that is, between the ones for and against. I have repeatedly invited everyone in these days, both by writing articles and participating in radio and TV programs, to follow 3 guidelines. It was first necessary to understand the reasons for the ways and tones with which this real coup d’état was conceived and announced, then in what it really consisted, and finally to imagine the scenarios. Instead, the Pasdaran took the floor on the one hand, the Don De Zerbi on the other and we slipped onto a land very dear to the people (values of sport, law, respect for the fans) that was fake and slippery, hiding the fact that it is not It was by no means a war between rich and poor, but a brawl at the crossroads between rich and rich. So there was nothing politically correct at all, but nothing at all, in any nuance and in none of the contenders. Finally, as James Coburn said in “Giù la testa”, every revolution, even a short one, changes something. But, as Rod Steiger replied in yet another masterpiece by Sergio Leone, “the revolution is explained by those who read books and eat a lot to those who cannot read and have no food: the latter then fight and, when it ends war, power still belongs to those who read books and eat a lot “.
Paolo Maldini candidly confessed that he was not involved in any way in the SuperLeague, that he was not really aware of it. After all, when they prepare “coups” the colonels don’t tell their friends, wife or children. But to the captains yes, it must be said. Otherwise they get pissed off. With all the bad things that go with it. I hope that this tear does not reflect on the team and does not prejudice the future of a work begun and continued with surprising skill and achieved cohesion: we do not want to be the only ones in the bandwagon to remain with the unlit match in hand.
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