Inter, the appeal for the disqualification of Lukaku in the Italian Cup

Tomorrow the Federal Court of Appeal will analyze the appeal filed by Inter against the one-match suspension of Romelu Lukaku, who at this moment would not be available to Simone Inzaghi for the second leg of the Coppa Italia on 26 April at San Siro against Juventus. The viale della Liberazione club had announced an appeal, read the report of the referee and the men of the federal prosecutor’s office and presented an appeal last Sunday. He did so before the disqualification of the Curva della Juve was suspended and then even canceled (yesterday’s sentence), from which the racist chants, offenses and howls at the address of Big Rome, during the semi-final first leg on 4 April. Now Inter is, if possible, more determined than ever to avoid a blatant injustice but above all a colossal fool for our football abroad.

THE FACTS

—

By now everyone knows what happened that night at the Stadium also because the racist episodes of which the Belgian was a victim have led to condemnations from all over the world of sport, including the president of Fifa and many of the most important footballers on the planet. Inter does not enter into the merits of canceling the disqualification of the Juventus curve. The lawyer Angelo Capellini will try to remove the second booking that was assigned to Lukaku for non-regulatory behavior by the referee Massa. Reason? He rejoiced after the Nerazzurri number 90 converted the 1-1 penalty. The match report states that Romelu “addressed in the direction of the Juventus supporters occupying the first tier in the sector known as the South Tribune, miming a military salute to the visor with his right hand and an invitation to silence (putting his finger in vertical perpendicular to the nose) with the left one. Following this, Juventus supporters occupying the first ring of the sector called the South Tribune again sang verses of racial discrimination addressed to the aforesaid footballer. The aforesaid verses consisted in the reproduction of the verse of the monkey (” Uhh Uhh”) were carried out by the majority of the 5,034 spectators occupying the aforementioned sector and was perceived by all three delegates of the Federal Prosecutor’s Office in charge of match control positioned near the South Tribune sector (Trinx), the midfield line (Keller) and the North Tribune sector (Della Ragione)”.

SAME EXULTANCE

—

The fact that Lukaku’s celebration was described in such detail helps Inter. Why? Because this is the way of cheering that Lukaku has put into practice other times, before and after that goal in Turin. It had previously happened with the Belgium shirt and then with that of Inter, at Da Luz in the Champions League. There was no goal to provoke the Juventus curve – this will support the Nerazzurri defense – because Big Rome he exulted as he has already done. All net of the racist insults that he too had heard. Now all over the world more and more people are cheering like Romelu, to show their closeness to him and because Lukaku is one of the symbols of the fight against racism.

PARADOX

—

In this affair, Italian football, which is trying to recover as an international consideration and which is preparing to sell TV rights abroad for the next few years, can make a fool of itself: punishing the player hit by racist chants with a one-match disqualification and don’t punish the curve that those racist chants sang because some of those responsible have been identified and “disqualified” by the Juventus club, which will no longer let them enter the Stadium. Now the word goes to the Federal Court of Appeals.