The club breaks the silence and defends itself from the accusations filtered by the Milan Prosecutor’s Office. The position expressed by President Marotta.
Inter are not there and after a day of silence and reflectionanalysis of what came out of the corridors of the Milan Prosecutor’s Office and attempts to interpret things that have not yet emerged, he chooses to expose himself personally to clarify his position. Which is ostentatious serenity and refusal of any hypothesis of involvement in the investigation into the arbitration system which forced the Serie A and B referee Gianluca Rocchi to take a step back.
The speaker is President Beppe Marotta, the venue is the pre-match in Turin on a Sunday that brings Inter closer to Scudetto number 21 in their history and which represents a small oasis of serenity in the midst of the storm even if the Granata’s comeback cancels out the victory of Chivu’s team.
Marotta speaks to the microphones of Sky Sport after the impression for hours was that the line chosen would still be that of silence. Not a real comparison. He explains his and the club’s reasons and accepts, not with enthusiasm (euphemism), a single relaunch that comes to him from the studio and which tries to delve deeper into the circumstance of the alleged meeting at San Siro on the occasion of the first leg derby of the Italian Cup in which, according to prosecutor Maurizio Ascione, the choice to designate welcome referees for the matches at the end of the season took place.
Marotta’s words on the investigation into referees
Here, then, is Marotta’s thought: “First of all, we learn everything from the press, in fact these press releases and these declarations made surprise us because first of all we don’t have liked or disliked referees. We know we acted with the utmost correctness and this should reassure everyone. It is clear that last year was a year in which objectively we also had adverse decisions which were subsequently ascertained by the refereeing leaders. I am referring, for example, to a penalty not given during the Inter-Roma match and therefore today we are here thinking about this match, this championship and this scudetto that we want to bring home. I am calm that Inter is a stranger and will be a stranger in the future too.”
And then the question: Regarding the reference by the Milan Prosecutor’s Office to a specific day, to the names of the referees Colombo and Doveri and to the first leg of the Italian Cup: how surprised are you and what memories do you have? “I’m surprised because I absolutely don’t find a connection with this, but I don’t want to go into it. We learned all this news from the press, I feel like I’ve answered exhaustively, I don’t want to go into more detail. I want to reassure all the fans and above all to say that we are here in Turin today playing an important match, we want to bring home this deserved championship as quickly as possible. I reiterate once again how we acted with the utmost correctness.”
End of broadcasts. From here on there will only be room for waiting for what will arrive, including some clarifications that are missing in this first phase of the case. Inter expresses surprise at having been brought into play in a matter that they consider distant and from which they reiterate that they are extraneous, but are awaiting developments starting from the certainty that at the moment no manager or member of the club appears to have received any notice of guarantee from the Milan Prosecutor’s Office.
