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Telegraph" front page, one of the more popular newspapers in England. The
attention of several sporting transmissions. A script, worthy of a very
great agonistic presentation. The protagonist : an Italian athlete. This
time in a negative way. The puritan and conservative Britain society wakes
up and rubs her own eyes when the main television network broadcasts the
inconsiderate gesture of Paolo di Canio. A career through Lazio, Milan
and Napoli, the roman football player who has thickened the Italian group
abroad, rises now to the honours of the news due to a bit vehement reaction
because of an expulsion.
These the facts: it is been played Arsenal-Sheffield Wensday, where Di Canio just plays. 44th minute first half. Everything arises from a quite vigorous clash between two players. The Italian intervenes to put an end to a pseudo-brawl and receives a whole face slap by a rival. Paolo’s reaction is a kick just under the referee eyes, Paul Alcock, who cannot avoid expulsing him. At the red cart sight, the football player loses his temper and leaving the play ground, knocks down the referee with a push, really light. The immediate consequences bring him to the exclusion from the short-list and to a foreseen megadisqualification. Somebody even talks about a possible athlete’s expulsion from the beyond the Channel football. Waiting for the decisions the English Football Federation will take, the Di Canio’s censurable gesture is to evaluate under different points of view. Verified the scarce Mr. Alcock’s physical form, quite awkward attempting balancing, in order to some overweight kilos, under a strictely sporting point of view sure it’s not either justifiable nor excusable a push to referee mainly during several European countries live broadcast. The words, mainly those of the home tabloid, which followed days after the football player’s gesture, frankly puzzle us. It is not the first time England proposes similar incidents, one of the boasts of the beyond the Channel football is to be male football, almost off propriety limits but anyway physical contact inclined. Since it is not the first time that in the country which had invented football a football player comes to contact with a referee, explaining him in a less orthodox way his own reasons. The epithets reserved for Di Canio seem to have something of premeditated. "A brutal attack" or "Mad Raptus that deserve expulsion" are the commentaries we would hardly find on the English newspapers if the protagonist, as it has already happened, had been a home athlete. Maybe it is not well known that since time in England it is being putting into effect a real defamatory campaign toward the Italian football players. Till now champions like Zola and Vialli have paid for that, charged correspondingly of premeditation, self-pity and professional incompetence. Looking at it this way it did not seem true for the Her Majesty submits to splash another azzurro all over the front page, this time self confessed responsible of an attack, so being at the top of masochism. We suggest to the sage England to practice beneficial self-criticism a little. We repeat it ; there was and it remains the Di Canio’s impropriety . But tagging an athlete as a criminal because of a light push against a referee, more in Olio than in Stanley version, seems frankly excessive. It would do better the Britain mass media not to forget the beyond the Channel hooligans years, during which they have terrified half Europe during their barbaric travels. And that the tragedy of the Heysel in 1986 , during which 39 fan of the Juventus died, were caused by an attack (this one real brutal) of the more animal fringes of their support. If it were attempted to erase remorse and football inferiority complexes in such terms, it would be the case to export to England, besides successful football players, some good psychologist too. |
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