How do you leave the stadium before the end?
Francesco Acerbi's goal against Barcelona in the second leg of the Champions League semi-final (photo LaPresse)
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Matches must be experienced to the full because they are not events to be documented on social media
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Every now and then the painful issue of fans leaving the stadium before the end of matches comes to the forefront of the news. This time it's Inter fans' turn , but we all know that it's a transversal evil that especially poisons the fans of the so-called big teams, where a ridiculous sense of superiority makes the fan believe he knows more than the reality he has before his eyes: I'm leaving, these guys will never score anyway .
How beautiful it is, however, when reality makes them a nice insertion from behind, exactly like Tuesday night at San Siro. Leaving the stadium before the end is like leaving a half-full pint on the bar of the pub , like abandoning the discussion with your girlfriend by giving up reasoning just because she says "it's your fault", like turning off the television after the white smoke.
Worse than the Vaticanists who assured us that the Pope would be Tizio or Caio, the fans who leave early are guilty of hybris, and above all they still haven't understood what football is. You will say that nine times out of ten, however, the last-minute comebacks fail, and at least those who leave early don't find traffic. My mouth, don't be silent: the match must be lived to the full regardless, even if only for that little glimmer of hope, or to applaud anyway (or whistle) at the end. Let's be clear, these assholes have always been there, but their number has increased in recent decades in conjunction with the transformation of the football match into an event, an experience, entertainment .
Those who go to the stadium for the seats that warm their asses, the buffet, the music during the warm-up, the selfie to take and post or the reel to clog up other people's feeds , in short for the atmosphere to live and document on social media and not for the match to experience with friends who support them have no interest in staying until the final whistle. And if nothing happens in the final minutes? Who cares.
At San Siro “everything happened” as the Instagram pages that talk about football say to create engagement even when nothing happens, at the Parc des Princes on the other hand little or nothing: the frog-eaters with the keffiyeh deserved to beat Arteta's Arsenal, who as per tradition at the end of the season went out of gas like a beer left in the mug for too long.
No English in the final in Monaco, but two in the Europa League (and six Premier League clubs in the Champions League next year) and one in the Conference. We'll have to put a good face on a bad game, like that American who supports Roma and was elected on Thursday.
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