2006 06 03 - I have never thought... I have never thought that my son will born in a land without football. I am not referring to the fact that here in Italy it is mandatory to pay per view: through the satellite or terrestrial digital television it is the same. For example the incoming football world championship, will be totally blinded for me since I cannot afford it. The problem is all what is happening here in Italy in these days: phone tapping to important football managers, presumed associations to obtain favouritisms and so on. The problem is that some unbecoming laws, now put sport decisions in the hands of the ordinary magistracy. The problem is that the sport magistracy, without any doubt able and expert, has a ridiculous time available to take very important decisions, in a very tangled matter. But European cups draws are coming, and the next Italian football championship has to start in a reasonable time. But, above all, it is very strong the suspect, looking at the evolution of the things, that not all the system that will result involved will pay, but a team only, and probably it will pay like no one before. It is coming back to my mind another Italian vicissitude, long to explain here. In other words, a bad thought is strongly coming: that looking impossible to win vs. Juventus on the green field, there is the will to keep away for some times this football club using other methods. At this point I am against it: I consider much immoral to use the justice against a sport opponent, than all the supposed obscure manoeuvres made by the teams involved in this scandal. We have also to wonder how deep the rottenness is extended. I mean, a game is played by 22 players and the reserves, one referee, two linesmen, and the “fourth man” (The reserve referee at the border of the field). Among all this people it is possible that someone follow a design to drive the game as they will, but the others that know nothing: what are they doing?. They play an extra part perhaps?. Of course not!. If
we listen after every match to supporters, players and managers of the
losing teams, we can think that every match hides something wrong. But
it is only a loss of sport spirit. Observing with some good sense, we can ascertain that all these complains have no background to support them. If we hear the opinion of people that have played or directed football, they are frequently divergent, this is the matter of life, and prove that the game was regular, of course. Moreover: the number of referee’s gross mistakes, so incredible to be almost without explanation, it is not so high to create suspects. These mistakes are part of the human fallibility. And moreover again, if at the end of a football championship we weight up the referee mistakes for and against every team, we can point out a substantial balance. Not only: frequently the teams that cry more for injustice are those having a balance of mistakes in favour. Looking at this great accusation about a “team of teams” made to drive the games results and much more, I am wondering about the behaviour of the people that in televisions or on papers talk about football. In these years no one was excited more than usual (driven sometimes by a secret love for a team). Looking at that, where are all these irregular games?. Is it possible that all these people were blind, ingenuous or conniving?. I don’t think so. I do not want to appear more ingenuous than my child still to be born. Of course behind all this great investigators work, something of concrete there will be. Making my readers thinking it is my intent. I think that analyzing everything with patience and competence, the infernal pot that now seems opened, it will turn out only like a pot of bad hot soup. It can be in this way, but will not be, probably. First of all for a lack of time. And moreover, now that the Great Opponent (Juventus F.C.) is involved in these investigations, all the others are saints or victims!. Of course it is not in this way!. If all the teams that have a skeleton in the cupboard will pay for this, I will explain to my child that there is a good sport called football. Sometimes it has some crisis, but it is always a good sport to enjoy. But
if only one team will pay (at least accompanied by minor teams)
certainly I will not introduce my son to a sport that is able to be
worse than the same people that want to dirt it. |