Arrogance

For my fellow IFP listeners, Nima hit this on the head. Inter were arrogant yesterday. But it was a microcosm of Italian football since 2006.

Inter and Juve, club and fanbase, media and management spent the last few days bashing each other and embarrassing Italian football on a world stage.

Italian football has been infighting and leading the world in incompetence for decades now. Yes, decades. 20 years since 2006. It’s all been downhill since then. Calciopoli rocked the Italian world and we’ve never recovered. It wasn’t just Juve. Every big club had fault.

The FIGC is arrogant, the fanbases are arrogant. The inter core is arrogant.

We won’t even get into the media and fans calling for bastoni to be axed from the national team. It’s just arrogance and delusional. There’s never been a more divided time in Italian football and part of me thinks the team wants these qualifiers to come and go so they can be done thinking about the national team for a while. It’s toxic.