Yesterday, Roma and Inter Milan played football matches that decided the outcome of the Serie A, the Italian equivalent of England’s Premier League. Had Roma won and Inter, who went into the game one point ahead, either lost or drawn, then Roma would have been crowned champions. Their opponents, respectively Catania and Parma, had to avoid defeat to escape the drop into the lower division.
The matches ended with Inter winning and becoming champions, which condemned Parma to the drop, while Roma drew, with Catania scoring the equalizer five minutes from the final whistle, a fact that saved them from going down, the second near escape in as many years. Great news!
In fact, Catania was so happy to have avoided the drop, their substitute players and staff first insulted the Roma bench on hearing that Inter Milan had scored, and again when Catania equalized. After the game, the Catania fans were so happy that their team would be playing in the top flight again next season, they celebrated by going on the warpath against the police. Again? 'Fraid so!
These people have the smallest brains and the shortest memories, and clearly no shame; their fans were responsible for the death of 38-year-old police officer Filippo Raciti during crowd violence at the end of the Catania-Palermo derby on February 2, 2007. Just fifteen months ago...
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I like this one, it stands out as football going too far and becoming life and death instead of the passion of football just as a game.
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