Monday, 11th March 2002

Internazionale 2-2 Juventus

Whilst it's refreshing to see a U.K daily taking Serie-A seriously it would be a little more heartening if your correspondent actually knew a little bit about Italian football. Internazionale are not 'hard on the heels of leaders Roma' they are in fact level with Roma at the top of the table, there is and has never been any allowence for goal-difference in Serie-A. If two teams are level on points at the end of the season then there will be a play-off, which last occurred in 1964 when Bologna took the title.

It's also a little bit puzzling to find that despite the fact you've bothered to send somebody to the game, he failed to mention the injuries, during the game, to Lilian Thuram, David Trezeguet and Alessandro del Piero, which might just have had some effect on the outcome.

There also appears to be some minor disagreement when their correspondant says 'they (inter) were hindered by a negative 4-4-1-1 formation', now I know this is a minor gripe but Cuper alway's plays 4-4-2 and I can't find a single Italian authority that says they didn't keep to this on Saturday night. Inter played 4-4-2 and even threw on three strikers for the final phase of the game, Ventola, Kallon and Vieri all finished the game for Inter.

In a seperate article, also in today's paper, it's strange that there was no mention of the fact that Alessandro Nesta had possibly the worst game of his entire career during Sunday evening's 'Rome Derby'.

By the way, I know I'm just being pedantic but the game was played at the Giuseppi Meazza Stadium, San Siro is a Racecourse.