6 February 2007

Stop the Championship

I want to express my sincerest condolences to the Raciti family who are mourning the policeman assassinated at Catania by vulgar delinquents. And at the same time I want to give all my solidarity to the Police Forces who risk their lives for little recompense to protect citizens.
Football should be suspended at least for the current season. A few days are not enough to take decisions that can solve the issues. Citizens, rightly, would feel they were being taken for a ride. The football clubs should leave the Stock Exchange. Too many economic interests are destroying the football sector. Penalties for the ne’er do wells who are parading themselves as “ultras” at the stadium must be more severe and above all certain. Too many police officers are hit and threatened with the people responsible not paying any consequences.
Finally the freewheeling words that insult both the work of the Police and the memory of Inspector Filippo Raciti pronounced by the Member of Parliament for the Rifondazione Party, Francesco Caruso: “The life of a police officer is worth the same as that of an ultrà” and by the President of the Football League Antonio Matarrese: “Football cannot close down, the dead are part of the system”. These words serve to justify an intolerable situation.
Matarrese must go. What’s more he should never have stayed after the scandal of the fraudulent games. Football needs new leaders and responsible policies. Otherwise it has no future.

Posted by Antonio Di Pietro in Society