The strange epilogue of a game without history but with many questions: why did you get to the fight? Why all against Valtolina? Was the judge’s decision right? And what was the role of Scarpi?
There is a term obsolete today, but still in use at the time of the facts that we are going to tell – we are talking about over twenty years ago – when in the chronicles, to give the knowledge of a particularly violent aggression, the expression “gragnole of blows” was used. The gragnole – or gragnòla – is technically an atmospheric precipitation, where snow and hail mix and fall – often with the shape of the frozen crystal – in large quantities, causing an unpleasant feeling in those who suffer them. In short, useless to go around it: it hurts a dog. And it is enough to see the face with which Fabian Valtolina is filmed by the cameras – that Sunday 13 February 2000 – to have confirmation that he was a tackle of it, he was beaten to blood and yes, if he saw it ugly after the gragnuola of blows from which he was invested, while returning to the changing rooms at the end of Venice -Cagliari.