Let’s All Blame the Referees!

For though of you who were blissfully unaware of the terrible injustices that took place yesterday, Rodrigo Taddei and Carlo Ancelotti want everyone to know that Roma and Milan didn’t get full points because of the GOD DAMN REFEREES. Yes, that’s reasonable. I mean, dropped points are very rarely the fault of the people on the pitch, right? And surely the fact that Milan managed to score on only one of their 19 shots had nothing to do with the loss.

Apparently not if you ask Ancelotti, anyway. He’s very worked up about an apparent handball by Amauri (who will surely tell you til the day he dies that it was his shoulder) that led to Palermo’s first goal, and has gotten big cheese Adriano Galliani so upset he’s insisting The Great Bald One, referee designator Pierluigi Collini, look into the matter and get back to the club with his response. Oh, and also? Milan’s draw with Siena last weekend was due to the referee as well. Nothing to do with Milan’s utter inability to score. Nothing at all.

In Rome, meanwhile, Luciano Spalletti is keeping discussions of the referees to a minimum, and is instead lamenting his team’s draw with Fiorentina based on things like Roma’s failure to take advantage of scoring chances, and the mistakes that allowed the Viola to tie the match. That’s because Spaeletti has many, many brain cells to rub together, and knows that you’re not going to get better if you blame all your failings (and by last count Roma had about two of those, total) on referees. No one, however, taught that lesson to Rodrigo Taddei who, despite leaving the match in the first half with an injury, saw enough to be sure the officials screwed Roma over. And intentionally, too — “The referee only blew for fouls by us, and persecuted us.” Christ. This is me, rolling my eyes. (And yeah, I like Fiorentina, but the Roma crazies for the most part think a draw was a fair result, and blame the problems on — gasp — Roma players. Who are we to argue with them?)

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