So it's over then, Carlo?
Just like that? You admit that it's over, but not your mistakes. Oh well, at least that's an improvement. We deserved two penalties? When did Milan start to win matches by the virtues of winning penalties? Frankly if the same management stays after this season, then I'll just dim the light of this club in my heart a whole lot, particularly if Paolo retires. I will still love this club, watch the matches, but that'll be that.
At least until the next batch of Maldinis come along. Who I'm sure will bring with them renewed faith. And motivation. And hope. Which this teams lacks, because bar Paolo and Kaka.
I really liked the way Kaka stood up and went back disgusted after the 2nd goal. Now the coach wants us to finish at least 3rd. Not 2nd. How about we finish 16th, win the UEFA Cup and get entrance to the CL? That'll be easy, I reckon? Finish in the top 3, hmph. Well, news flash, we are in the top 3. Can't you hold this position, with this team, coach? And oh, I sure hope it was not his last derby. I want him to be our coach for 7 more years. Yup.
At one place the club is willing to sell Kaka for $$$. And then Galliani puts up his little Academy Award Winning show in the stands every time something bad is about to/happens. Showing that he's all concerned.
We can't afford a player like Ivanovic, while Fiorentina can, apparently. We want to suck Arsenal and Barca dry of has-beens who no other big clubs are interested in. While at the same time putting in stupid, needless buyout clauses (of 15 million) on players who are not worthy of Milan while we loan them out to French clubs. Gila was crap. Well newsflash again, he was not crap, our system was. Oh, we'll then, bring back Boriello when other clubs are offering 19 million for him, and rent him a furnished room in the Milanlab.
While we could have done that and went shopping for any other world class striker to partner Pato. We buy young players so we splash some money, ruin their careers by not giving them a fair chance, all the while playing the usual suspects who're all above 30 day in and day out. Mourinho is a foulmouth, so we don't need him. UEFA Cup is not important, and all of a sudden it becomes an objective. Ribbery is too ugly for Milan. Buffon is too old. Abbiati is better than Dida, less talented, lets in more goals, but better. At least he's not black. Let's get rid of Ronaldo (R99, thank you) because he likes to have sex with trannies. And bring back Sheva who'll never play, while we're at it. Inzaghi scored two goals in a CL final, so let's retire his number 9 shirt, to top things off.
We're losing money by the second because of not being in the CL. Land 1st for less than a week, after half a decade and harp about it. We're still paying Emerson. All the while buying youngsters from Brazil when the Italian youth ones are rotting. We play Ambro in front of Flamini, because he's more experienced? Yeah, right. It really counted, when he got himself a red card - if not for the referees kindness in the second half when Ambro kickflipped Maicon, was it? And then the club owner springs out from the woodwork and says we have no hope for the Scudetto. And now with a whole bunch of matches left to play, the coach comes out and says our league is done and dusted. Way to rub off confidence in players! Way to, really!
ENOUGH IS BLOODY FUNKING WELL, ENOUGH!!!And no, I'm not angry or disappointed. I knew it was coming.
In fact, I'd have been very surprised if it was otherwise. Very surprised actually. Winning this match won't have meant anything, we may as well have lost the Cagliari - our next home game. It won't have counted (beside Paolo's farewell), because it didn't last time when it was a hundred times more crucial this time last year to land the 4th. That was a bit heartbreaking for me, this defeat is not. We were up against a coach with a 100+ league game home record. And we have trouble unlocking Lecce, while we think of ending that. The only difference between inter and Milan today (bar the vital injuries) was the lack of motivation. Motivation from the coach. It's only when the team falls 2 goals behind, that it gets motivated, starts to play from a fear of things. It's the same old, same old day, in and day out. A big win, and then a humiliating loss a week later. Today's win would just have put things under the rug. Which is what people seem to like. Instead of addressing important issues which affect the club. The coach can't even come out and say he lost it. Apparently he's doing everything right. It's the fans, the players, the management, the media, the taxi drivers in Peru who're screwing things up. I still want us to win, something, this season: the league and the UEFA Cup, the double, but it won't come if we don't stand up, accept, and learn from our mistakes. The Milan of 2003-2005 is long dead, it seems. Forza Milan! As always, though.
Yeah, dst, so sad, indeed.
Hah !
Excellent post!
The first goal wasn't that much a mistake from Paolo, the second one from Kaladze was far more fatal lapse in concentration. And I'll just say this: If Paolo wasn't playing today, we'd have returned the favor of 6-0 to inter. We were that bad in the first (and part of) second half, that I feared a humiliation was the flavor of the day. Paolo marked Ibra out of the game more often than not, he stopped Adriano in face of near certain goal, and overall stopped the inter players from taking direct shots at our goal.
And I'm not saying this as a fan. Just go and see the extended highlights again once they come up. Do me a favor and watch them, so will I. I can point out 3-4 near certain chances that Maldini stopped. Yes, you can argue that he was very poor (compared to the standard of the best defender of all time, that he set), but it's not like we had half a dozen better options in the line, now, did we? A combo of Kaladze+Sanderos or Kaladze+Bonera would have meant disaster, surely.
I've just bought the exclusive rights to that article!