Fatal Verona and 5 May, or the obsessive search for failure
It is May 5th and Inter have not yet lost the Scudetto. Predictable news in a championship that hasn’t had any bosses since August, uncertain to the point that for the end credits it will probably be necessary to wait for the last day scheduled for the weekend of 21-22 May. Meanwhile, with three rounds from the finish line, with an Italian Cup still to be transmitted, many are hurrying to draw up in advance the balance sheet of Simone’s first season in the Nerazzurri Inzaghi resorting to the usual miracle-failure dualism. No intermediate position is accepted by the Manichean current that divides the world of football between good guys and idiots, even if to deserve this or that definition, the coach who trains this team may not be able to hit a goal by only two points (each reference is purely random).
Childhood, the daughter of the contradictory events experienced in recent months, is understandable among the fans who are often alone every week to win, no matter how, but it is inappropriate if analysts change their opinions. It therefore happens that the magma of these opinions in freedom produces opposing currents of thought that end up taking root so deep as to become dogmatic in the media: some say, for example, that Inter is in line with the goals set by the owners because replaced Eriksen, Hakimi, Lukaku and Conte with Calhanoglu, Dumfries, Dzeko (+ Correa) and Inzaghi. But the Beloved, which has always been two-faced, also generates opposing ideas and, in fact, there are those who raise their finger and assert that the Italian Super Cup, a Champions League eighth final and a Coppa Italia final cannot be enough if accompanied by a second place in Serie A for the reigning champion of Italy. Reason? It is closely related to the mistreated Milan by Stefano Pioli, first in the standings for several months, which by now most critics have established that he is outperforming because in the famous summer ‘grids’ he was barely placed in the second row. It continues to resist, by assumption, even in the face of the denials of the facts, the thesis for the Rossoneri to be weaker in terms of squad than at least three teams in Italy. Which leads to the demonstration that each of these that sees the license plate of the Devil is below its standards. Those rigorously drawn on paper that can only count on the crystallized values of the players, as if the latter – the young ones – cannot improve especially from one year to the next.
Wrong evaluations are allowed and are part of the game, God forbid, but they are deleterious if they become the excuse to bend reality to one’s own thought instead of the other way around. What appears very clear is that, lacking a team-reference as happened in the last ten years (Juve x9, then Conte’s Inter), many have launched into rash predictions and that, in order not to be misled, they now unload the blame on the losers or brazenly fill the pot of merit of the winners. Easy this way, between miracle and failure there are different degrees of separation. We can do better than looking for a third fatal Verona or another May 5th, perhaps bringing back the respect for the losers, Sure disappointed, but not for actors of a defeat.