Monday 16 March 2009

A night to forget or ignore for FIFA...

Sepp Blatter and Mr Platini must be cursing the results from this weeks Champions League...
Once again four English teams made the next step to Rome and once again the so called "giants" of Europe have fallen by the wayside...
Inter gone,the old lady Juventus departed and Real Madrid put to the scouse sword.
But the biggest worry for the FIFA bigwigs should not be their obvious hatred for Premier League dominance...or there obsession with the 6 + 5 rule,that they feel will somehow throw a immigrant shaped spanner in the EPL spokes..(Inter only had one Italian in the squad against Man Utd by the way Mr Blatter)...
The biggest worry about the latest round of Europe's most glossy cup comp..is the violence that once again marred the game between Arsenal v AS Roma...despite the lack of real bother in the ground itself,supporters from the north London club were pelted with stones and one unlucky fan was stabbed....This was not the first incident to occur at the Stadio Olimpico..and yet FIFA keep turning a blind eye..and its going to be the host ground for the final..
Once again someone in great power is being swayed by either blindness or the size of the brown envelope? or both....
If this combination of corruption,violence and right wing hooliganism were to happen at Old Trafford on a Wednesday night during a tie involving the "powers that be's" beloved Madrid or Barca there would be life bans for all involved and we would be staring down the barrel of another post Heysel predicament...and rightly so.
And yet Roma will host the prestigious final..even tho they have a appalling record of stadium trouble..Why Sepp? tell me why?
Tell me why you have no guts or conviction in making this violence a thing of the past...
Maybe English clubs should boycott the Champs League?
Until we see change and the appropriate punishments....
Or maybe the ultimate show of strength would be to have another all English final and take Rome by storm...
Maybe?
But to all Aston Villa fans who currently crave this European glory...just think......
If you claim that prized fourth spot.....
What if you draw AS Roma?
Will you be taking your kids to the Stadico Olimpico?
Non Probabilmentei.....

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