just protests, not plots (à la Mou) – Corriere.it

As happens to men with strong personalities – politicians, writers or football coaches do the same – Jos Mourinho he said beautiful and horrible things after the Europa League final that, in his personal opinion, given that I was at the Puskas Arena to comment on the match, Roma deserved to win. Let’s start with the beauty, said to the team inside the circle in midfield, with the coach in the middle, after the penalty lottery had ended in the most painful way: I’m proud of you, you played a great match and the whole world did. view.

Mourinho, in that way, has not only cheered up his players. He built an invisible bridge between generations of Roma fans starts from the goal disallowed against Turone in Juventus-Roma on 10 May 1981, which cost the Giallorossi the scudetto, and gets to referee the English Taylor in the match in Budapest. A direction well below 6, saved only by the intervention of the Var. The players feel which way the wind is blowing. Sevilla have committed 21 fouls and Roma 19, but in the 108th minute the Spaniards had a yellow card and the Giallorossi 6! One team, in a normal game situation, without any really bad interventions, played scared of a second yellow card and the other didn’t. Unfair.

We arrive at the horrible, which also arises from Mourinho’s words after the match (The referee seemed Spanish) and from his aggressiveness in the underground car park of the stadium, where he first confronted Taylor and then his collaborators shouting: What a disgrace! What a fucking disgrace! What a fucking disaster!. Let me be clear: any personal crime. You can’t blame the PlayStation if a madman is shooting in the street like he’s in a video game. So whoever put referee Taylor, his wife and fourteen-year-old daughter at risk at Budapest airport was not armed by Mourinho but felt justified by an idea of ​​conspiracy that our society now applies to any subject. Those who claim to be Roma fans cannot justify that behavior in any way. The grandparents and fathers would also say so, those of the goal disallowed in Turone – almost certainly it was valid -, those of the Champions Cup final lost on penalties against Liverpool, those of Roma-Lecce. But some of them are gone and many others, fortunately for them, are not on social networks.

Ps: if we were mayor Gualtieri and AS Roma we would invite the Taylor family for a holiday in the capital. Just to show that an unruly fringe isn’t the city.