Leo Messi è stato paragonato a Maradona per il gol al Getafe in Copa del Rey, in cui si fece metà campo saltando gli avversari come birilli. Proprio come el Diego in Argentina-Inghilterra dei famosi mondiali di Mexico '86.

Stasera, Messi ha segnato anche l'altro gol di Maradona in Argentina-Inghilterra, quello di mani. La mano sinistra, il pugno che ha raccolto il cross di Zambrotta deviato per il gol del pareggio, 1-1 nel derby con l'Espanyol). Non sappiamo come finirà la Liga, non sappiamo nemmeno come finirà la partita (mentre scriviamo è l'intervallo) ma non vorremmo che la Pulga avesse emulato il suo illustre predecessore. Anzi, per un attimo abbiamo pensato che andasse dall'arbitro a dire che il gol non era regolare, invece dopo un secondo con nostra grande delusione l'hanno inquadrato che esultava, alzando il ditino incriminato. Chissà se anche lui dirà che è stata la 'mano de Dios"

 

PS: tra Capello e Rijkaard, tra Cannavaro e Zambrotta, tra Emerson e Thuram, a me non è che fregasse molto, ma visto il gol di mano è giusto così. E Totti ora trema, van Nistelrooy a un solo gol da lui per la Scarpa d'oro...

So, we’ll have our football back next Sunday, with a lot of restrictions. For the time being, in Verona, Milan, Bergamo, Florence and Messina they’ll play behind closed doors. We feel that these measures could not be effective, as you know many incidents happened outside the stadiums. We think that “zero tolerance” should mean heavy punishments to people found guilty. For example, jail could be a solution instead of prohibition to go to the stadium. And again, the only criteria they used –stadium- is not enough and, if left alone, doesn’t work. Verona stadium just needs about forty electronic gates to check tickets and supporters’ identity, but Chievo Verona has the quietest fans in the whole Serie A.


Here you have the typical Chievo fans

Anyway, clubs’ owners decided not to strike, and in some stadiums they are working day and night in order to have situation under control. Inter Milan and AC Milan executives had a meeting with the prefect of the Lombardy capital, but we still do not know the results of it. Let’s see, in fact San Siro has the worst situation, it looks like it takes 8 months to complete its reconstruction (in theory). New UEFA president, Michel Platini, wants the open doors. We hope to have both fans in all stadiums and security, and to do we think that clubs and policemen has just to regain those areas of the stadiums that are not under their control (and under law control). It won’t be easy, but it’s necessary.

Let’s go to Spain, to see what happens at Real Madrid. Fabio Capello thanks the ‘Ultras Sur’ group as they did support him while the rest of the crowd was against the Italian coach. That’s why he has been warned by the Spanish government's Anti-violence Commission about this: ‘Ultras Sur’ are violent and Capello’s comments could have negative consequences. Capello was already blamed as, a couple of years ago, expressed a positive comment of Franchism. And when he was a player, he hit a journalist, whose only guilt was to criticize him.

Remaining in Madrid, and talking about the other Italian ‘Fabio’ at Real, Cannavaro said yesterday he could be back to Juventus at the end of the season. Well, he has a contract until 2009, at that time he will be 36. He plays for the most important club in the world, with good possibility to win Liga and Champions League, and he aims to be back to a club that, if thing go well, will be a Serie A newcomer? We think that Fabio 2 just thinks that his Spanish experience is a failure, and said those words just to prevent Madrid executives’ decision to give him away. Let’s see…

In the meantime, public prosecutor in Rome decided to prosecute all GEA managers, especially Alessandro Moggi, and his father Luciano, former general manager of Juventus. The crimes they are charged for are: criminal association for illegal competition, and private violence. After he was banned from football, Moggi is everywhere –TV stations, radio stations, newspapers- to claim he’s innocent. He also said that other clubs guilty, even more than Juve. Let’s see if he’s going to repeat all his theories in a court of law, under oath.