What a lot of Interista's forget about is the history of this club. Inter has the most history out of any other club in the world. From the beginning, we have always had a minimum of 3-4 players who were world class at one point. Barcelona was nothing before Cruyff, same with Real before Di Stefano. Milan won absolutely nothing for half their history (imagine 50 years without a trophy), were in Serie B for two years in the 80s (as punishment for the betting and matchfixing, like Juve in 2006) and most of their titles came with Berlusconi's big money in the 90s (they were the Chelsea, Manchester City of the time). Without him, they would've been bankrupt and demoted to Serie D.
Bayern were nothing before the 70s (beckenbauer, muller etc). Juve comes close, but they were a childrens club before the 30s (when Agnelli bought them), and it's a certainty they would've never been either the dominant team in Torino or Italy had La Grande Torino not died in the Superga air disaster in 1949. Plus, we know all about those cheating Bianconero cunts. And even when they're winning, they may have a better team, but not the better players.
Inter, on the other hand, have always been at or close to the top for the entirety of our history (1908-2014). Aebi, Fossati, Conti were all world class players, then came Meazza and De Maria - two time and one time world cup winners (despite the fact Juve won 5 consecutive scudetti in the 30s after Agnelli's ownership, they still weren't the most prestigious team in Italy or the world. Mussolini coined Inter, then known as Ambrosiana, the pride of Italy because we had the best player in the world and Italy captain - Meazza. It's like Atletico vs Barcelona - one team is undeniably more prestigious).
The fifties were sad because Milan finally started winning with Gre-No-Li and Schiaffino. But we still had Angelillo - world cup winner, and Skoglund - who is the greatest Swedish player of all time and singlehandedly led Sweden to the world cup final in 58 where they lost to Pele's brazil. Then with Angelo Moratti's purchase of Inter, came La Grande Inter, the greatest Nerazzurro side of all time, and one of the greatest teams of all time that changed Italian football forever (suarez - first midfielder and only spaniard to win ballon d'or, mazzola, picchi, burgnich - one of greatest german defenders of all time, facchetti - first modern left back and one of the greatest of all time), and legendary manager Helenio Herrera (who pioneered catenaccio and is the reason Italian football will forever be linked with that word).
The greatest Juve side had to beat Liverpool during Heysel tragedy to win their CL (and they still celebrated after the final whistle despite what happened), Milan beat a young, inexperienced Benfica who unfairly progressed to the final (instead of Marseille in '89), but Inter had to beat the greatest team of all time for their first european title: Di Stefano's Real. The 60s were also when Juve's cheating began with full force (with the infamous Serie A title controversy of 1960 - Juve literally playing with 12 men on the pitch in the title decider against Inter!!).
In the 70s, Juve started their first winning cycle, even when we had Beccalossi (who was kicked out of the national team by Bearzot because of how hard he raped Juve - imagine - and was the player Santos' president relentlessly chased to replace Pele, deeming him the only player "remotely worthy of Pele's number 10"), Mazzola in his prime, and Giacinto Facchetti. In the 80s, we were in dark times amidst Juve's success despite two Scudetti, with a president who was stealing from the club, but we still had fiercely loyal legends like Oriali, Bergomi, Altobelli, and our German contingent Matthaus - greatest german player and one of the greatest midfielders of all time, Rummenige, Sammer, Klinsmann. Then in the 90s, with dominant Milan, Baresi was our captain, with Sosa leading our attack, Berti in the midfield, Zenga in net. In 1995, Moratti purchased the club, and we all know what happened from there. The 90s were a period of intense highs and lows.
Inter is the greatest team in the world. Didn't Maradona say "if I could go back in time, I would play for Inter, no question." And the only team close to Pele was Moratti's Inter of the 60s. Personally our history is what keeps me as a fan tied to the nerazzurro shirt.
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