Elimination of Italy, the English teased: from “It’s coming Rome” to “Stay at home”

In England there are those who rejoice, by way of revenge for the defeat of the European Championship at Wembley. And then on social media here is the mocking greeting of Queen Elizabeth, the “Bye Bye” of Nsync, teasing the Chiellini-Bonucci couple who are reminded that next autumn “you’re staying Rome”. The English reaction to Italy’s failure to qualify for the World Cup is a concentration of amazement and irony between mockery and attempts at analysis.

“the typical Italy”

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Like that of the former English center-forward Gary Lineker, today an authoritative BBC commentator: “For Italy, going from victory in the European Championship to not even reaching the last stage of the world qualifiers is a terrible and devastating fall”. Numerous and irreverent memes, created to mock Roberto Mancini’s national team, such as the upside-down version of the famous shot in which Chiellini tugs Bukayo Saka. Or like the Queen’s smiling greeting to the Blues from her Buckingham Palace balcony (symbolically). “The typical Italy. Business or failure. For historians: victory in the ’82 World Cup and failure to qualify for the ’84 European Championship. Third in the ’90 World Championship, failure to qualify for Euro ’92. an English fan.

chiellini and bonucci in the sights

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If there are those who suggest the name of Gennaro Gattuso for “makes Italy great again”, the next day they rage with the most common joke, “You’re staying at home”, a readapted version of that “It’s coming Rome”, used by the Azzurri, especially by Giorgio Chiellini and Leonardo Bonucci on their social channels, to greet the success against England. But there are also those who take it out on England itself, guilty of losing last July against the Azzurri: “Tonight is yet another demonstration that Southgate is overrated, how could he lose a home final against a similar team? “.