I'm not saying we should let it pass completely, but we should go about it through different channels than whining about it to the newspapers. There isn't any data suggesting that actually helps.
This is Italy. This is the land where the greasy Luca Toni rolls on the ground and puts his hands in the air whether he's fouled or not. The cultural expectation is that if you don't whine and complain, you're excusing yourself of the right to an aggrievance. You are presumed complicit with the "fairness" of the situation.
What? I'm not saying this is Calciopoli, but you think we should bend over? All the big teams in Europe complain, in Spain and England they even complain when the ref is right.
Calciopoli has everything to do with it. Calciopoli was the product of people whining about fairness in the newspapers, for crying out loud. If you have to defend yourself, you have to defend yourself in the newspapers. It's that basic. It's a shitty game, but it's a cultural institution where everyone either plays or becomes the victim of it.
The idiotic logic being that if you aren't pointing out reasons to complain, you're likely the beneficiary of a lot of sketchy calls. Hence: calciopoli. So turning the other cheek and keeping a stiff upper lip sounds so fabulously honorable. But it burned us in 2006.