Milan derby | The Electrocardiogram of the Madonnina
James Horncastle
Posted on November 23rd, 2014
A quarter of an hour before the Derby della Madonnina kicked off, Inter’s team manager at the time Andrea Butti knocked on the referee’s dressing room door. He had a special request to make Emidio Morganti on behalf of Inter’s owner Massimo Moratti. A week earlier on December 16, 2007, Milan had triumphed over Boca Juniors 4-2 in Yokohama. Pippo Inzaghi had scored a brace, just as he had done in the Champions League final against Liverpool in Athens that summer. At the open top bus parade, Massimo Ambrosini had held up a banner telling Inter they could “stick the Scudetto up their arse.” Milan had eclipsed them. But Moratti rose above it. The Diavoli were European and World champions once again and…
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