Lazio-Roma and the fairplay that no longer exists, from Sarri to Mourinho to Milinkovic- Corriere.it

Talking about fair play in Italian football sends anyone who does it into the reviled category of do-gooders, because expressing “good” ideas is now considered a defect and not a merit. The Football Federation prosecutors will certainly have to deal with the third half of the Roman derby
i.e. everything that happened after the final whistle from referee Massa who, during the match, had already sent off Ibanez (double yellow card, with exultation from Milinkovic-Savic who waves his arms towards the audience as if he had scored a goal) and two members of the technical staff – one on each side, the Lazio athletic trainer Ianni and the trainer of the Giallorossi goalkeepers Nuno Santos – after a fight that arose following a misunderstanding: Pedro had not promptly thrown the ball out to have two injured players rescued.

The post are the expulsions of Cristante and Marusic who argued on the pitch, the confrontation between Romagnoli and Mancini in front of the yellow and red locker room, the spat between Mourinho and Lotito, the disagreement between Luis Alberto and Foti, Mou’s second, separated before come to blows. More wrestling than football. A product that cannot be sold abroad.

As always happens, the after the result of a before. Di Sarri who comments on the freezing of Mourinho’s disqualification after the Serra case in Cremona as a Lifetime Achievement Award. Of Mourinho who, after the elimination of Lazio in the Conference League, plus the one already suffered in the Europa League, asks himself a rhetorical question on live TV: Lazio won’t play in a third cup this year, will they?. Sarri has the enormous merit of having brought a team that has a much lower wage bill to second place than those who follow it in the standings.

Mourinho that of having brought back a trophy to Roma last season and of continuing to fill the Olympic stadium also for the Coppa Italia matches, which previously attracted 2,000 and not 60,000 spectators. Lazio and Rome have to manage the treasure of an enormous passion, who has an educational task as their technical guide (but this too, by now, has become a dirty word for many). The Olimpico filled a show. If we manage to keep anyone wearing a t-shirt with the name Hitlerson and the number 88 (the eighth letter of the alphabet, the acca HH for Heil Hitler) from entering, that would be even better.