UEFA
A RantWhat if that had been an English club? who I hear you ask,Inter Milan is the reply. The punishment that has been handed out by UEFA is a disgrace. A six match ban on spectators, of which 2 are on probation, I ask you, and that is all they get for hitting a player with a flare and getting a game abandoned. Now I ask you what if that had been an English club? we already had a five year ban on English clubs playing in Europe, a ban that was harsh in the extreme and after the recent ban on spectators handed out to inter looks even more harsh. Why do the Italians get a slap on the wrist for their disgraceful behaviour and nothing else. Why not a ban on either them playing in Europe or as should have been the case all Italian clubs playing in Europe. A total ban would seem to be the only way forward to stop all the hooligan element and to send a Sharpe reminder that UEFA still run the game and not the media or the clubs themselves. I mean Mouriniho got a two game touchline ban for raising his finger to his lips and also for reporting an actual, as it turned out, illegal meeting between a referee and the manager of another club, somewhere things don't just add up.
Also this is not the first time that there has been a problem in a European match and an Italian club, or even Inter for that matter. Earlier fans hit the referee with a missile that was thrown from the crowd making it impossible for the referee to continue in the game, the same referee it turns out that Mourinhio saw talking to the opposing manager during the half time interval, the referee who stated publicly that the verbal outburst from Mourniho made him give up refereeing, no mention of the missile that hit him and could have seriously injured him, no that didn't make him give up but words did. Something strange is afoot in the corridors of power.
But going back to the ban handed out by UEFA, its a shame that they missed a chance to be strong, like they were with the English back in the 1980's, and I think that they were right to ban English clubs at that stage, just as I think that they should have at least banned Inter from playing in any European competition for 5 years as well, and maybe all Italian clubs. So when UEFA start complaining about a manager and his comments, let them eat a bit of humble pie, let them not be dis swayed from handing out a major punishment rather than a token gesture, the ban they imposed, and I know I am repeating myself, is a total disgrace.
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