Ancelotti and the curious background with the referee after Napoli-Atalanta

NAPLES – The shadows, and there were, had already taken the whole night: and in those darkness, between human bitterness and professional suffering, the only light could come from the monitor, from a television that helped to understand where hiding the error and, above all, how huge it was. A frame, a sequence of images, a response to make it a reason for everything that happened in those minutes «delirious», Lost in disbelief for a strictness appeared solar (despite the hour) and then that vortex that was swallowing everyone, after that Napoli-Atalanta it had become something else, no longer a game but a case.

Ancelotti and the post-game, here is the curious background

The backstage of this crazy day, enclosed in a mother-scene, begins at about twenty-one on an evening swollen with anger and poisons, a red card waved under the nose of a man born calm and then become a leader, the one to whom Giacomelli asks «help to calm people down»And receives it. "Of course yes, I'm giving it to you, but a doubt doesn't come? Outside, for the second time in Italy (with Roma on the bench, his son Davide), with his clear intellectual honesty and reaffirmed just three days before, in Ferrara, when to remove the clouds of the conspiracy and the obstinacy to the kilo makes it clear («the one granted to us was not rigor, the defender's hands are attached to the body») And therefore has no holds, no alibi for himself:«Carlo, let's go talk». Cristiano Giuntoli he tried to sprinkle chamomile drops in a red-hot dressing room like a furnace and yet he knows that there is a role to be respected and also a protocol: approaches Ancelotti, tells him that an invitation has arrived, and the post-game becomes a question and answer, civil (and we miss him) on points of (s) seen that do not coincide.

In fifty years of football, a coach can also have a technical preparation on the very detailed regulation, or enrich it – in the light of the new rules in which it is legitimate to lose oneself because here they change them for breakfast, lunch and then also for dinner – confronting immediately with whom know of norms, laws and of Var, of theses and theories and in there, in the big room where there are Giacomelli, his assistants, the fourth man and the "technicians" of technology, can now try to discuss and confront those who arbitrated the game, with whom he assumed (or failed to do so) responsibilities that weigh like a stone tombale on Naples-Atalanta, transformed into a second dwarf by a (non) choice. But to quibble, and for a long time, is Mr. Luca Banti, 45, former referee, Video Assistant Referee who does not attend this time, but intervenes and amazes Ancelotti. "But sorry, why are you talking? Didn't he direct the race …?». They were eight friends in the Var ….

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