De Laurentiis shakes the Palace

CASTEL VOLTURNO – Rule eighteen: use common sense. And you have to metabolize a whole night, traversed among the ghosts, thinking back to what it was, what it could have been and what it could become this hell now …. Football managers, who are now companies, have a duty to let the brain dominate instinct and that incessant murmur – I do it, I don't; I say it, I don't say it – it is repressed, exploiting rationality, which cannot always be diplomacy. Aurelio's rude awakening De Laurentiis, in Naples which is a gurgling repressed of suffering (football), is filled with those images that are still there, they sail everywhere, in social and air, and stun, always asking the same question: but why not go to the VAR?

A clean sweep

The anger of Castel Volturno is that of a team that incredulously thinks back to an exemplary game, rich in content, beautiful also thanks to what Atalanta did, and then disfigured by that episode that becomes the mother of horror: and there is a thread of bitterness, but it is very often, that stretches as far as the seafront, where De Laurentiis is sipping a coffee, before sitting down, cell phone in hand, to talk with those who govern this world, and it is Gabriele Gravina (Adl dixit last October 17: "a respectable person") to politely tell him, in an interview that has the friendly character of the frontal debate and yet lucidly analytical, what was "his" Naples-Atalanta, to discuss this Universe in which the time has come to intervene, to put one's hands in it, "doing tabula rasa", a concept that has belonged to him for quite a while and that this time explodes overbearing, because he has seen so many and endured so many. It is this macrocosm that does not suit him, the attitude towards a gentleman like Ancelotti and the one that remains of a night "scarred" by a series of football decisions that have devastated (il) Napoli and pushed it.

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