Do you feel that the title race is becoming more heated in the media?
"I only said that I was angry after the Milan match because, after four or five incidents, we are human, and I was thinking about my Inter. When something happens to Inter, it is barely talked about. I raised the alarm, and we saw proof of it on Monday.
People are still discussing the corner awarded to us when the ball was out, yet I remember Leverkusen, where we were given a corner against us in the 90th minute from an offside position. We lost that match, and no one said anything, even though it forced us to play an extra game to qualify and put us lower in the group standings, which also hurt us financially.
When it's about Inter, people talk about it for days, while for others, it barely gets mentioned. I'm not talking about referees or coaches—mistakes will always happen. I just wanted to defend my work, my staff, and my players."
Did you feel pressured by Conte’s comments on refereeing issues?
"I already answered earlier. Mistakes happen, whether by referees or coaches. I was upset about the different treatment Inter receives. After four or five similar incidents, we are human, and I got angry.
I’m very calm. Sometimes I make mistakes too. On Monday, I was rightly booked, but I was very invested in the match after Thursday’s game. I didn’t want us to repeat the same mistakes."
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Fucking right.
They - everyone, from the media to the while social media - are making a miscalled corner, which can't be retracted, of all things, seem like the new Muntari against Juventus. They're calling for changing of rules, for reprimands for referees and indirectly for referees to not call things for Inter.
Pavlovic barges into Thuram from behind. Not much is said.
Baschirotto handles the ball in a situation that's similar to Darmian's penalty. Nothing.
Gatti pokes a ball away from a Como player. Not a word.
Politano does the Swan's death in Empoli after barely haven been touched. Not much noise is made, Conte certainly doesn't complain.
Oliveira does something similar in the ensuing match that can directly decide the Scudetto. Everyone carries on (perhaps rightly so, a tough call).
(DID YOU KNOW?!) Napoli get a corner kick where the ball wasn't out, and McTominay scores from the ensuing corner. I actually just found this out, but no one put that situation under a microscope or really cared.
We get a stonewall penalty after Anguissa stamps Dumfries just below his knee. Conte goes on a schizophrenic five minute tirade that the media laps up as if he's rightly challenging authority.
Leverkusen score after an offside that wasn't called - it's unfortunate, but barely anyone Inter-related says anything, although it costs us our first loss and could've meant we wouldn't have conceded one goal all Champions League group stage, a momentous record, and we realize VAR isn't meant for every call. Even Inzaghi says so.
We get a corner kick that shouldn't have been called, and Pongracic heads it into his own net - everything goes up in flames, Football-Italia publishes articles calling it the death of football, the championship is falsified.
It's straight up ludicrous.
We certainly aren't, in the totality of the last 4-5 years, victims of malfeasance by referees.
But we're no doubt victims of a media campaign that makes us look like the new Juventus without any of the evidence or empiric data to back it up.
10 years of FIF
