Today, the FIGC have held a ‘referee revolution’ meeting, and Franco Ordine has brought up a rather interesting stat.
The fallout from Inter’s win against Juventus is still going on, especially with Milan pretty much out of the title race now. Perhaps it is keeping an old wound open and vulnerable to a sting. However, the Rossoneri may still be able to feel hard done by.
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Pierre Kalulu’s challenge sent shockwaves around Italian football, with many feeling that he was harshly shown a second yellow for seemingly not making contact with Alessandro Bastoni.
Since, the Italian has apologised for making such a meal of the challenge, but no punishment has been given to him.
Inter’s red cards against the rest
For Franco Ordine, the journalist believes that there have been big mistakes made, and highlighted that there may be bigger issues with the number of red cards given to certain teams, as MilanNews relays.
“I only share one thing about the card, in this championship there have been many mistakes, repeated and that have had many teams as victims, not only Napoli. It’s not a question of good or bad faith, I say we need to give this story a football setting.
“When a team doesn’t work, the coach is changed and so at this moment the companies should not bark at the moon but should reason to find a solution to this series of mistakes.
“There is no consistent guideline from the beginning to the end, from hand fouls to penalties things change during the championship and therefore you have to change Rocchi, period and that’s it.
“Since the management didn’t work, the results are unsatisfactory and therefore the coach is changed. Rocchi performs a service and if your football company realizes that it doesn’t work, you change the service”
“The big mistakes in this championship against Napoli are those against Atalanta and Juve, in favor instead I only see the penalty against Genoa and there is a macro penalty.
“Then there is a fact that I want to underline: in the last 5 years I see Lazio and Milan who have over 20 expulsions while there is Inter who have had 5 expulsions in the last 5 years. Kalulu’s foul is a big background of the referee, it’s not a precise bad faith.”
Thats why we call it Marotta League.
There must do investigation ..
Last season they are confident to get treble, but Fortune has switch quickly and inter lost them all. This season they must take at least one trophy. I admire that inter playing a good game, but they also need some help from Ref in serie A. So then they can focused to going further in UCL. But they never won.
Referee help is not just gifting them points, goals and wins. It’s also taking points off of their opponents (Napoli and Milan), as well as putting other contending team in difficult situations, like suspending Rabiot inexplicably, or NOT suspending Paz, or suspending Orban so that Parma played the game before playing Milan with 11 men vs 10, ensuring they were rested against us.
And now the Derby is coming up and Saelemakers, Rabiot, Fofana and Tomori are all 1 yellow card from missing it. Let’s see what happens during Cremonese.
It all counts, and it’s the same playbook that Moggi used to do against other teams in the league back in the early 2000s.
Red cards this, refereeing mistakes that, elsewhere VAR. Have people really not noticed that Inter has much greater potential than their results, because they regularly bring in players of the caliber of Akanji, Pavard, or Thuram, while Milan only targets rejects from the Premier League, French-speaking wonderkids, and stars at the end of their careers over the age of 35? That is the colossal difference. Either we accept it, or the goal for this club will always be only the money from the CL league phase. In a league where the champion usually achieves over 85 points, there is no room for compromise when it comes to building the winning squad.
Furlani sitting at his desk thinking he is a really schmart CEO for generating a positive income and nice-looking cash flows. As if a positive net income, additional retained earnings, and good cash flows are bonuses, not the obviously normal expectations, and he has been doing it for Milan out of generosity.
Yep move along, nothing to see here – let’s just let inter and the refs get away with ruining Serie A year after year…….
Serie A is always match fixing league by someone, either Juventus or Inter…..that’s why they can’t win UCL or even make it to World Cup as it’s such an unfair league and the system never change!!
Fact is some teams are more equal than others…or refereeing is the most subjective thing in serie a that you have to score 5 goals to convince anyone that you have won. Playing out to a draw or winning by one goal is like sitting on the edge of a cliff and deciding to take a nap. And yes Inter is better equip to win without referee favors but when consistency flies out the window one is bound to ask questions…unfortunately the die almost always rolls against Milan.