It All Falls Down

You’ve got to hand it to Kanye. When he plays the Blame Game, he at least gives himself an equal share of the responsibility, unlike these damn calcio figures who keep on falling all over the place.

Vincenzo Montella had an accident today. See, he fell down. Doing nothing really, just walking around Roma’s training ground, the Trigoria. Apparently the fall was so bad that he injured his bone in his right shoulder and now must wear a brace. Surely, in here somewhere, is a joke about Roma’s season.

Giampaolo Pazzani has spoken about falls today as well- downfalls. He tried to speak about how Inter’s season fell into nothing, but he must’ve gotten a little confused: he fell over his own tongue when talking, if you will.

First he claimed that: “We didn’t fall apart completed, but the games against Milan and Schalke 04 ruined our season.” Which, to be fair, is a pretty common argument. Within a week, Inter blew the chance to re-open the Scudetto race, and then were thumped at home by the German side. Had those been two wins, Inter would be in a very different position right now, both in Europe and in Italy.

But Giampaolo doesn’t seem to like that. Maybe that puts too much blame on him personally. Or the team while he was on it. He backtracks:

Having said that, if you look at the numbers then you’ll realise we lost the Scudetto in the first half of the season. In the space of eight or nine games we picked up just 10 points from the 24-27 available.

A fantastic mixture of truth and bullshit. Inter did do terribly in the first part of the season, but the Scudetto was by no means lost at that point. After all, as he just said, they had a chance to beat Milan and throw themselves back in it. Furthermore, Il Pazzo started for Inter against Milan. He was ineligible to play in Europe, but he had 62 minutes to help his side overcome their crosstown rivals before he was subbed off for Diego Milito. Any failure on the part of Inter on that night must lie with him as well as his teammates equally (Except for Chivu- he gets two servings of blame).

Nice try then by Giampaolo, but perhaps like Vincenzo, he has no one to blame but himself for his fall.

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