Re-opening

Picture above: an Italian football match, extra time...

As we all saw, as I said, football does not stop, that was clear enough even during the post Sunday tears of the many, who thought (thought, simple past) it was time for a cultural revolution. Football stops, a pathetic sentence not leaving anything to the imagination of those who really believed football was not stopping. Did you really think a business worth millions (3% of all GDP in Italy) was going to close down all of a sudden because a cop died during riots in Catania?

As Matarrese argued, a death is part of the system and sorry about that, we are talking about an important business here. Nothing more true than that. But of course it cannot be said Mr. Matarrese, please present your resignation.

After the scandal, they all absolutely want to go back to what it was before: let’s game on folks! Teams, coaches, officials, everybody thinks it is time to play (I wonder what footballers singularly think, that is the only category which did not express a single opinion about the riots, except for the outdated representative of the footballers association).

And not only it is time to play, but they all want supporters back: Ultras and friends must be sitting on their comfortable chairs holding some Nazi-fascist-flag, among those coloured of their team’s colours, and contributing to the wealth of the system. Because football without supporters is not football, the majority argues. That is true, football exists only on the sphere of media: when there is not an audience there is not a show either, this is circular reasoning.

However, to conclude: if before we asked for less hypocrisy (namely: please do not say you are going to close when instead you will not) now we ask for more courage and optimism.

Courage of getting rid of the violent ones and optimism towards the fact that more conspicuous amounts of money will then, as a consequence, come off the pockets of the large majority of all supporters, constituted by pacific ones. The same ones who are now staying at home instead of going to watch live football matches, just because of the risk of riots.

That is called: long term business plan (approaching a successful strategy).

Re-opening