We are still here to ask ourselves why Italian football has not won anything in Europe for years now. Football in Italy has become a sick sport, made purely of economic interests and less and less of the essence of sport - that is playing on equal terms and deserving a victory. The mistake there may be, Zielinski's hand contact at the first of the championship as well as Mertens's dive, but bad faith cannot be accepted.

MANY WEIGHTS MANY MEASURES - Hand ball by De Ligt in Lecce - Juventus, there is no penalty even if solar. Wrestling tackle by the defender Atalantino Kjaer on Llorente (1.95 x 90kg) that with the naked eye foreshadowed a penalty then declared unexceptionable even to the replay, but not given. The grotesque story of Serie A is driving away the public - which is what puts the money - and the smallest arbitration class ever, and often in bad faith, is doing the rest.

WHAT NEEDS TECHNOLOGY? - We have awaited the arrival of the VAR as a godsend, but the world's smallest referee class (I repeat) has found a way to make this dutiful modus operandi fail too. The referee from Trieste Giacomelli and the referee from Livorno (Juventus) Banti al VAR have also decided to review the images (!!!) that the contact was not a penalty and they decided the game in their own way. What will the referee designators Nicchi and Rizzoli say? Probably that it is a doubtful event but that the error on the part of the refereeing triad was not there. Unfortunately this is part of the sick system of which Serie A is impregnated.

NAPOLI - ATALANTA - Domain of Napoli, Atalanta in disorder. The referees decided. Chapeau.