Let me tell you what happened in the last month and you tell me if I have the right to lose hope or not.
Juventus won against Inter in a deserved victory even though Capello made some errors there but still the team managed to get the three points. At that point I still had faith in the team and Capello's so called abitlity.
What happens after that game? We go to play Messina in our worst display of the season and do not manage to win the game. We allowed Messina to net two goals against us and let them appear like the better team. At that point I was still giving excuses and it was the exuse at that game was players are tired after the Inter game.
Another excuse might come up to mind and is the game against Bremen was coming up and the players are nervous. I thought, fine, let them be nervous a big game is coming up, they will handle it in a proper way.
Then comes the game, and what a game it was. Do I need to go into details about that game, I don't think you want to hear what I have to say about it.
Here I said, that's a cloud and it will pass by and I was happy we are playing Lecce afterwards so some morale will be injected in the players and hopefully Capello would try something for further use in other games. It was the right opportunity to do that. What happens? Capello comes in with the same approach and let Lecce embarrass him by taking the lead in Delle Alpi. Again another WRONG approach of the game that we managed to win due to individual performances.
Even at that point I still had faith in the team and was also hoping we will improve. We go to play Sampdoria in Genoa to once again win with a 1-0 goal where Sampdoria was the more superior team. Here I gave the excuse of the Messina game and here the excuse was even more valid. The game agaisnt Bremen was coming up and we HAD to win because we are coming from a loss in the first game.
You cannot imagine the expectations I had for the game, you cannot imagine what I was waiting for. A trashing, a beating, a display that will spread the fear in the whole other teams. I was expecting a massacre of a German team in Torino. Look what happened here:
1- THREE non-fit players start. Not one, not two, THREE!!!
2- One of those players hadn't played in ages, Zebina, he starts ahead of others who were doing good during his absence. He plays just because the coach prefers him personally over others, no tactical excuse there.
3- A player who is 50% fit starts ahead of two other players. Not only he is 50% fit, he is OFF-FORM for the whole fucking season. What was the reason he starts? Capello says afterwards that he started with Zlatan ahead of Del Piero and he knew that Zlatan was not fit. That is not a reason, that is what everyone saw.
4- We come in the game with an approach of winning it with a virgin goal, the exact same way he approached the second game against Liverpool last season.
Here I got fed up and I decided to watch another game instead. I went to watch Barcelona - Chelsea. My love for the team dragged me back to watch the Juve game just to see us conceding the goal. The moment I switched back to watch Juve Micoud was netting a killer in Gigi's net.
I thought to myself, I have to support the team and watch the last 70 minutes they play in the tournament. I watched the wrong football up to the 88th minute where Wiese gifted Emerson a goal. I screamed, I jumped, I celebrated but I felt so much disappointed. Much more disappointed that all the disappointments I had for the past games. Tens and tens fold of disappointments. The way we qualified is a joke. The commentators laughed at the goal during that evening and during the second evening. The goal was repeated tens of times and at each time the experts were laughing at how Juventus qualified for the quarter finals.
We were mocked, we were laughed at and all this is because of one person.
I hope you understand what I went through.
Dominic, I am far from seeking for attention, I thought you know better.