A real farce, not to mention a scandal. There are no other words to describe what happened in the final minutes of the match, valid for the promotion poule of Excellence, between Tell Figline, won by amaranth 5-1 with three goals scored from 90 ‘onwards. Three goals that would have nothing to do with Subbuteo, let alone football, achieved thanks to immobile opponents who “have stopped playing”.
Tau-Figline, the press conference of the Livorno president. Video
To underline this, with a statement that is almost surreal, is the same company from Lucca: a theater unworthy from which Tau himself wanted to distance himself. “The logic and behaviors adopted by Figline are outside our sporting culture – reads the company’s statement -. We have honored our shirt and the game of football, deservedly conquering the victory in the 90 minutes of play”.
And then the hard thrust: “We are sorry about the behavior of our opponents who, at 3-1, decided to stop playing by providing a bad show to all the fans who flocked to the stands of the Altopascio stadium. We are very sorry that among these there were also the children of our football schools who today had an example of what football should not be “.
In short, a scandal destined not to end after the threefold whistle of the referee, considering that, beyond any complaints presented by Livorno – a company obviously damaged by the final result – Tau himself could take legal action even if only to protect his own image : “Maybe we were naive – concludes the Tau -, but we continued to honor the field and playing without making calculations. The images of the last ten minutes are clear and therefore the company is evaluating, together with its lawyers, the actions to be taken to protect their image as well as that of the whole movement. Sport always wins and we are sure that this will be the case again “.
