Week 17: Fiorentina (1) vs AC Milan (2) - 24/02/2010

[Milan10]

Is there a reason why they can't just play the game tomorrow? I guess they are expecting the snow to continue dumping on Florence? What a bunch of bull shit, and we have to go into the break with that shitty taste from the Palermo game still in our mouth.

 

[adrian_milan]

Double post..

 

[adrian_milan]

Talk about bullshit, its 2.45 AM in our local time, and my alarm waking up everybody, even my baby..shit..

 

[Ali Daei]

Is there a reason why they can't just play the game tomorrow? I guess they are expecting the snow to continue dumping on Florence? What a bunch of bull shit, and we have to go into the break with that shitty taste from the Palermo game still in our mouth.

Becuase they feel bad for fiorentinas bitch ass they call a squad having all the injuries.

 

[kevin_dk]

Match postponed till January 27th

LOL I've been waiting all my life for this match and now it is suspended for a month from now. Holy shit.

 

[SixOneFive]

January 27th... nice, 3 days after the derby.

Well at least we play Livorno after that. Then again, that's what we said after the first derby.

 

[Ragazza]

acmilan.com says the game was postponed due to bad weather...

does anyone know what's happening in florence? is it raining razor sharp daggers of ice or something?

 

[KujaIX]

acmilan.com says the game was postponed due to bad weather...

does anyone know what's happening in florence? is it raining razor sharp daggers of ice or something?

no. fiorentina didn't want the game to be played behind closed doors without fans although the stands etc were dangerous and icy and probably suggested that it get's played tomorrow. but leo and the brazilians went on holiday tomorrow and so milan refused that and it gets played in january

 

[Sasha]

We'll fuck them in January, no problem.

 

[Ragazza]

that's too bad. i hadn't thought about the potential bad conditions in the stands...as it's pretty common here in the US that football (american football) games are played and fans still attend the games even when it is below freezing temp and/or snowing/sleeting

well hopefully the team can use this break to come back rested and full of energy

 

[Deleted member 24225]

That all is such a bs, I was waiting for that game the whole week, I wanted to have a nice game and three points before christmas, would have been the best christmas present.

They should have played tomorrow imo, don't understand why they didn't. Just because of our brazilians wanting to go on holiday, that is stupid. We would have had a break of some weeks after that game, but no we need to play it when we have games all weeks and midweeks, to make everything harder in January. We already have many tough matches at that time and we still add one to that, we kill ourselves that way.
If it really is on Jan. 27, then that is a bad time, just after the derby and with so many other matches being close to it, really bs.

 

[KujaIX]

according to milannews, it was the referee's desicion on whether to play tomorrow and he said no. if he said yes we would've played

 

[Kuzimoto]

fucking idiotism.

 

[SantaFe]

maybe the game was not played, cuz it is snowing, and it is fkng at 8.45 pm to play..

why franchi wasnot prepared to fit the game?

maybe, if it was scheduled on a day-time, could have been different..

i dont understand why fiore-milan had to be played on saturday evening (not today daytime, or tomorrow daytime) in the first place?

fiore were lucky to use weather excuse only so that to recover key players...imo

 

[SixOneFive]

maybe the game was not played, cuz it is snowing, and it is fkng at 8.45 pm to play..

why franchi wasnot prepared to fit the game?

maybe, if it was scheduled on a day-time, could have been different..

i dont understand why fiore-milan had to be played on saturday evening (not today daytime, or tomorrow daytime) in the first place?

fiore were lucky to use weather excuse only so that to recover key players...imo

Good points. It's kind of like the FIA scheduled the Japanese Grand Prix near Mt Fuji in late September-they're just asking for crazy weather.

That sucks that they're going to have time recover all their hurt players, but at least T.Silva will be healthy by that time too.

 

[Lisa]

Fiorentina: 'It was for the fans'

Fiorentina patron Andrea Della Valle explains it was for the safety of the fans that tonight's game with Milan was called off.

The pitch could've been cleared of snow, but the worst problems were in the stands with thick shards of ice and sub-zero temperatures.

“We evaluated the almost total impossibility of using the stands at the Stadio Artemio Franchi,” explained Della Valle.

“We could not put the well-being of our fans at risk and unfortunately a portion of the stadium is still under ice.

“There was the option to play behind closed doors or with only some of the seats open to the public, but that would not have been right.

“Another alternative was to play tomorrow, but the weather predictions are for sub-zero temperatures and if anything on Sunday the conditions would've been worse.”

Although there is no official date for the rescheduled game yet, the most likely is January 27.

“Considering the Coppa Italia ties in January, it should be the penultimate or final Wednesday in January and so probably the 27th,” added Fiorentina general manager Sandro Mencucci.

“The authorities were right, as objectively when we looked at the stands they simply were not safe and so the wisest decision for the fans was to postpone.

“We want our stadiums to be full and with people on their feet with excitement, so playing the game behind closed doors would've been madness.

“We could've left it open for an inspection tomorrow, but the weather reports suggest it'll be -6 overnight and -3 during the day, so the situation was likely to be the same, if not worse. It would've been cruel to give our fans that slender hope when it was always unlikely to go ahead.”
football italia

 

[Calum1903]

People are getting too wound up about this.

If snow isn't actually falling, there tend to be two reasons for the game being called off, and those are a frozen pitch or bad road conditions for supporters travelling to the game, so the fact that the snow looks to have been cleared off the pitch is irrelevant. Maybe it's different in Italy, but in the UK the decision to cancel matches has nothing to do do with the clubs; it's made by the referee or the police. If the stands at Franchi weren't safe, that seems like a legitimate reasont to me. There's no precedent for games being played behind closed doors under those circumstances - it would be completely unfair on the fans.

As for the idea that it could have been played tomorrow, I can't remember an occasion when a match was rescheduled for the next day. Anyone? It may sound like a decent solution for people watching on TV like ourselves, but for fans with tickets for the game it'd be a disaster, and how exactly are Fiorentina supposed to re-arrange policing etc. at less than 24 hours notice?

And the thing about the Brazilians going away tomorrow sounds like bollocks to me.


EDIT: hadn't seen the article Lisa posted when I was writing this. My points stand though.

 

[Milanista]

Fiorentina: 'It was for the fans'



“We could've left it open for an inspection tomorrow, but the weather reports suggest it'll be -6 overnight and -3 during the day, so the situation was likely to be the same, if not worse. It would've been cruel to give our fans that slender hope when it was always unlikely to go ahead.”
football italia

not as cold as in finland where temperatures are -25 ! but -3 is still f*cking cold. fiorentina made a wise decision prosponing the match. they were right about the safety of fans. can u imagine playing in the empty stadium without the ultras. that wouldnt be right. the ultras are part of italian football and that makes it wonderful.

p.s i dont know what's gonna happen to my betting slip. i bet on this match and since it was prospone, i think i would probably have a refund. otherwise my betting slip stays the same and i hope for a draw 2 - 2 and i will win 120 euros

 

[acerвιc wιт]

They made the right decision. At least we will have Adiyiah and Beckham available.

 

[Milanista]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cw2mPvITs1o#watch-main-area

There is a lot of snow there.
Its very fustrating as I had benn waiting for 7 days for this match.

hej hvordan har du det ?
is that your house ? you live in a nice district. looks beautiful. you're a lucky guy.

 

[SixOneFive]

They made the right decision. At least we will have Adiyiah and Beckham available.

Probably so. I was just really pissed when they first called if off. We'll have T.Silva too.

 

[Tosho]

doesn't mater what we will have in jan, today they didn't have Jovetic, Mutu, Zaneti, Marchioni and therefore they wouldn't have any game and would have been easy to **** .
when these players get back it will be tougher and i really cant believe how shit like this hapпnns only to Milan!!!
ps.
good news for us is that Paladino got injured and he wont play against Milan.

 

[crazy4milan]

People are getting too wound up about this.

If snow isn't actually falling, there tend to be two reasons for the game being called off, and those are a frozen pitch or bad road conditions for supporters travelling to the game, so the fact that the snow looks to have been cleared off the pitch is irrelevant. Maybe it's different in Italy, but in the UK the decision to cancel matches has nothing to do do with the clubs; it's made by the referee or the police. If the stands at Franchi weren't safe, that seems like a legitimate reasont to me. There's no precedent for games being played behind closed doors under those circumstances - it would be completely unfair on the fans.

I also think the reason to call it off was legitimate (at least it seems so). That said, in here teams can also agree on suspending a game.

As for the idea that it could have been played tomorrow, I can't remember an occasion when a match was rescheduled for the next day. Anyone? It may sound like a decent solution for people watching on TV like ourselves, but for fans with tickets for the game it'd be a disaster, and how exactly are Fiorentina supposed to re-arrange policing etc. at less than 24 hours notice?

In here if a game is suspended (happens very often), a) they wait an hour to see if conditions have changed, b) they play it 24 hours later, c)if it's really extreme they leave it like that and way for the league to arrange a date.

And the thing about the Brazilians going away tomorrow sounds like bollocks to me.

It was on a italian link, how true or not it was it's another story. But IMO I think they wouldn't have had trouble to play and delay their flight for a day (or some hours).

 

[Beemer]

And that, ladies and germs, is how Milan will end 2009. Meh.

Where's the source that claimed the Brazilians were going on vacation tomorrow? Sounds like BS to me.

 

[Dwa Milan]

yeah saying that Brazilian opted to go on a holiday over playing a game today, is such a BS story that doesn't even make sense, they get payed for playing FFS,

 

[crazy4milan]

Where's the source that claimed the Brazilians were going on vacation tomorrow? Sounds like BS to me.

http://www.milannews.it/?action=read&idnotizia=15233
17.42 - In questo momento dentro la sede si è aggiunto anche Della Valle, oltre a Corvino e Galliani, per portare il parere della Fiorentina e si sta aspettando anche il Milan, con la presenza di Galliani. Sky potrebbe accettare di rinviare la partita, all'una di domani. Il Milan non è d'accordo perchè domani mattina i brasiliani partiranno per le brevi vacanze concesse dalla società.

 

[Beemer]

MilanNews gets their stuff from other sources. It's not legit until it appears on the likes of Gazzetta or acmilan.com.

 

[Milanista]

this match is cancelled. it will not be played on sunday. the match between bologna and atalanta is cancelled too.

 

[crazy4milan]

MilanNews gets their stuff from other sources. It's not legit until it appears on the likes of Gazzetta or acmilan.com.

Sky News. It was later debunked, but I also wouldn't expect someone from Milan confirming that we weren't going to play tomorrow because the brazilians had to take their flight, acmilan.com in such case is just as not reliable .

 

[SixOneFive]

this match is cancelled. it will not be played on sunday. the match between bologna and atalanta is cancelled too.

It's not just cancelled.


It's been postponed, most likely to January 27.