More violent is an outstretched leg intervention that hits the ball first and then the opponent, or a banner along an entire curve that reads, with creepy cynicism, "we of Turin are proud and proud, you are just a crash" ( with reference to the Superga tragedy, where in 1949 the entire Turin team lost their lives in a plane crash)? It is not a rhetorical question, because the ritual of the Turin derby revolves around this demarcation line. Rivers of words declined and written by various commentators to stigmatize the madness of a player who "risk" of hurting his opponent a lot, but didn't do it and sorry if it's little, and almost nothing on the infinite time in which non-Juventus players and fans had to live with that terrible writing.
Some playing, others cheering and all with that impending warning: don't worry too much because in the your destiny there is only a "crash". An inscription whose responsibility cannot be limited to a few frantic fools. The Juventus stadium is a perfect machine. Nothing can happen that is not under the wise and rigorous control of the celebrated Juventus organization. It is a source of pride for the company, for the city, for the mayor who caresses it with love and promotes its commercial development, it is the sign of the new course tenaciously affirmed by the young Agnelli. But everything is miserably shipwrecked on Saturday night.
That banner shouldn't have been thought of, it shouldn't have been displayed, it shouldn't have been tolerated, it should have been immediately removed. No one felt the moral duty of a gesture of civility. Yet in the stands there were all, really all, the top management of Juventus. And everyone leapt to their feet when the "crazy" Glik first hit the ball and then the Juventus opponent. But everyone, really everyone, looked without any revulsion at the words engraved on those thirty meters of shame. The good drawing room conveyed bad messages with the complacency of variously titled clerics. It wasn't a good derby for me, a grenade from the diaspora, but it wasn't for everyone who continues to hope for a more civilized country.
