Sport is infested with victory fans. They demand it. In football and now also with Sinner

Sport is infested with victory fans. They demand it. In football and now also in tennis

Milan is not satisfied. Not even toast. Teramo is never. Now there is no stadium in Italy where a fan protest does not take place. Today it happened in Milan where the Curva contested the club’s communication strategy. Bah. Not a new option. Last year also in Naples, before the thaumaturgical De Laurentiis ultras photograph, there was a flourish of accusations against the communication strategy of the club which was also winning the championship by a landslide. What that means, we don’t know. Yesterday Lazio was challenged after the draw in Monza. As is now customary, the players had to undergo the ritual questioning on the blackboard. The schoolchildren with their heads down listening to the ultras leaders who lecture them on values ​​(double bah), on commitment. Etc. The map of protests is very widespread. Everyone complains about something.

The Milan case is particularly interesting. The team is second. He will play in the next Champions League. In the Champions League this year they were eliminated on the last day in a tough group that included the semi-finalists PSG and Dortmund. Yes, they lost to Roma in the Europa League quarter-finals. So? The curve is first deserted and then silent. Leao booed. Pioli disputed. Pure madness.

Fans don’t know that 19 teams lose and one wins

The problem, even before being cultural, is arithmetic. In a competition in which twenty teams participate, one wins and the other nineteen lose. It’s the ABC of life. Perhaps we need to establish a ministry of defeat. It would be time to start explaining what sport is again. It’s just a demonstration of stupidity to expect victory or who knows what. This is becoming an unsustainable, tiring situation. Go to the stadium if you like football or if you support the team; or, in some very rare cases, for both options. Not to claim victory. If you expect victory, you either start your own business, work to found a club, or play on the stock market and demonstrate your skill. Or you don’t bother. You pay for the ticket and watch the match.

It’s interesting – pretending to move on to something else – the footballisation of tennis that has happened since Sinner won the Australian Open. The grotesque, intrusive, vulgar dimension, with a smug display of incompetence and ignorance. It is the calling card of new tennis enthusiasts. Actually victory fans. Which have also infected the communication circuit. Now poor Sinner is only asked when he will become number one in the world. As if it were an acquired fact. It’s the same football mechanism. Do you finish second in the championship twice? And now you have to win otherwise you’ve fooled us. Did you win the Slam in Australia? Now you have to become number one, otherwise you’re nobody. Don’t come out with a semi-final at Wimbledon while we rinse the watermelon.

It’s madness. It’s madness that leads nowhere. In reality it is ignorance. It’s frustration. It is the attempt to cover the (evidently robust) gaps in one’s existence by pouring ambitions on Sinner or on one’s liver team (sounds better than heart). The creation of a ministry of defeat is urgently needed. With frenetic activity in schools, offices. Everywhere. Girth during matches. like: if one team wins, the other loses. Things like that. And perhaps an undersecretary with the task of explaining that if Sinner didn’t become world number one in a few months, it wouldn’t be this failure. Just as it wouldn’t be if he never became one.

Basically, those who are passionate about tennis should follow tennis. It should also apply to football. The bowls. Etc. Sport is not risk. Sooner or later it will have to be explained.