When fools think they matter….

How can couple of hundreds of idiots ruin your day?

Ask Paolo Maldini. A bunch of disrespectful morons booed him off the pitch with a barrage of insults. This won’t be a smudge in his CV but anyway the behavior shows how rotten Italian football is.

One of the long-lasting bacteria in calcio are so-called fans; ULTRA movement that have turned into a parody and perhaps is the best picture of the chaos in once the best league in the world.

We won’t bore you with the well-known phrases that Paolo Maldini bled in Milan jersey for 25 years, that two generations of his family left their trace in rossoneri history and his son Christian will continue the family tradition. That is not the point; Paolo was paid for his sacrifice.

The point is this: if there is a football player in Italy, except Alex del Piero, of course, whose career was marked by passion for the club and high respect for the rivals, than it must be Paolo Maldini.

He never yielded to any compromise or socialized with so-called fans, avoided to be quiet about the problems of most professional football players and always kept away from the spotlight. Maldini simply played for Milan and always wanted to be rated by what he showed on the pitch alone.

His debut was somewhat shadowed by the picture of his famous father but he soon surpassed his glory. Petty is the world where few hundred drunken fans that hide their frustrations under the excuse of enormous love for Milan, will judge the merit and contribution of a player such as Paolo Maldini.

Those bums have the nerve to say for someone who in 25 years in Milan jersey has never been disrespectful, that he lacks commitment. In this world we are living in, the wild demimonde is looking for their place under the sun in the wrong way.

Being a fan means helping your club without looking for any compensation or respect in return. Because passion costs a great deal and you must express your protests in a way that should never harm your club.

ULTRAS are not the only ones to blame, though; their leaders have the influence like politicians, leading the crowd that is easy target and the means for their dirty games. The clubs have simply made the fans what they are, corrupted and unscrupulous.

Milan have sat quiet for days after the fans offended one of the greatest players in the history of the club; they don’t want to risk the clash with the part of the south stands that seem to think to be more important than the club, the players and the ceremonial moment that was completely unsuitable for any kind of conflict.

The ones with the dignity leave, so does Paolo Maldini. It would be no wonder if the fans made up the team in the future, decided the tactics and got the legitimate representative on the position of left back or coach even.

Shameful….

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