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02 March 2021The ghost race lasts 45 ', just enough time for the Lazio players to joke a bit on the pitch of the Olimpico, between improvised ballets and Cataldi who is a cameraman.

Only Turin is missing, not exactly a secondary factor: the grenades were in fact stopped at the disposal of the ASL of the Piedmontese capital and for this reason they did not appear in Rome for the match against the Biancocelesti.

Reason why, 45 'after 18.30 (scheduled time for the match), the referee Piccinini of Forlì could not help but declare a match that had never started ended, in the umpteenth day of political-sporting ballets with Covid in the background .



The English variant has in fact hit Turin heavily, forcing the ASL to intervene by imposing a quarantine on Nicola's team until midnight today, effectively blowing up the match against Lazio.

However, without any communication from Lega Serie A on the postponement of the match, on the contrary.

Even today, after the urgent meeting of the Lega Council, the position has not changed: no postponement, everything must continue as established, despite the certainty that Turin would not have presented itself at the Olimpico.

A choice also dictated by the desire to try to keep the Covid protocol drawn up by the League itself last October credible: a postponement granted by via Rosellini would have in fact reduced to paper


tears up a document that appears to have already been outdated by the facts in circumstances such as the present.



President Dal Pino yesterday wanted to postpone the match, but after a consultation with all the clubs, the vast majority of presidents asked him not to.

And even today's council, with a unanimous decision, said no to the stop.

Yet the same number 1 of the FIGC, Gabriele Gravina, was clear today: "I believe that there is an objective impossibility of playing the match based on the provisions of the Turin ASL".



Failure to postpone has generated controversy on the part of the grenade company.

The League's decision "speaks for itself", explained an embittered Urbano Cairo on the phone with Ansa.

"I don't think - he added - that the Serie A championship calendar defends itself by ignoring objective realities".

A story that is added to the long list of clashes between Cairo itself and the patron of Lazio Claudio Lotito, often and willingly on opposing fronts in the League, even in the latest events between TV rights and funds: the number one of RCS deployed on the Sky side and in favor of negotiations with private equity, Lotito has always been opposed to the Media Company and pro-Dazn deal.

And the challenge between grenade and biancocelesti is still tinged with yellow, considering that the first leg match (won by Inzaghi's team in a 4-3 comeback) is among the matches under investigation by the FIGC Prosecutor's Office for the issue of tampons in Lazio home.



Now the ball passes to the Sports Judge, in a situation that could have a different outcome than what already happened for Juventus-Napoli.

In this case, having occurred a cause of force majeure largely in advance (while the Neapolitans, according to the Judge, had canceled the trip even before having the stop from the ASL), the 3-0 at the table may not be arranged directly for the bianconcelesti, but the Sports Judge could only decree the postponement of the match in the light of what was communicated by the ASL of Turin and the objective impossibility of the grenade team to appear in Rome.