Massimiliano Allegri (139 Viewers)
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I have no problem with boring football for a national team playing like 5 games in a international competiton. Feel free to play as awful as you want as long as you get results during a span of 3 weeks. Your job as a coach is not to develop these players. But playing 50+ games a year in a brand of football that I would like to describe as being waterboarded ain't it.
I use to be one of those 'the only thing that matters is wins' but after Allegri I literally stopped watching football for the first time in my life. I'd rather experience a relagation battle than live through Allegri ball again.
The only job Allegri should be able to get is the Italian job. Any club director offering him a job again is a fuckin' dumbass who hates their fans and football.
I use to be one of those 'the only thing that matters is wins' but after Allegri I literally stopped watching football for the first time in my life. I'd rather experience a relagation battle than live through Allegri ball again.
The only job Allegri should be able to get is the Italian job. Any club director offering him a job again is a fuckin' dumbass who hates their fans and football.
I read an interesting article recently that explained the development of club football and how it originally stemmed from a very local level of tribalism before it got globalized.
It started off as identifying with the clubs from your city/county/neighborhood and the bragging rights that come with that. Some clubs represented labour movements and unions, the club for the poor (like Boca Juniors) vs the rich, grass root local rivalries with economic, social and political dimensions to it.
Then as some clubs became dominant they started tapping into larger fan bases that do not relate to that context.
Clearest contrast you can see today is visible in local derbies where one club is today a giant with international fan bases and the other is a minnow. Juve vs Turino for example. Or the Manchester derby before City had money.
For international fans it’s an insignificant game but for locals it’s something else. I’ll try to find the article it was in Arabic but had interesting factoids about the grass root origins of many clubs.
Point is club football was even more tribalistic and more about bragging rights (rather than entertainment) compared to international football. It used to tap into very local pride
It started off as identifying with the clubs from your city/county/neighborhood and the bragging rights that come with that. Some clubs represented labour movements and unions, the club for the poor (like Boca Juniors) vs the rich, grass root local rivalries with economic, social and political dimensions to it.
Then as some clubs became dominant they started tapping into larger fan bases that do not relate to that context.
Clearest contrast you can see today is visible in local derbies where one club is today a giant with international fan bases and the other is a minnow. Juve vs Turino for example. Or the Manchester derby before City had money.
For international fans it’s an insignificant game but for locals it’s something else. I’ll try to find the article it was in Arabic but had interesting factoids about the grass root origins of many clubs.
Point is club football was even more tribalistic and more about bragging rights (rather than entertainment) compared to international football. It used to tap into very local pride
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