Who knows why no one raised an outcry in the distant February 2021 when Gennaro Gattuso, then coach of Napoli, was fined with a penalty of 3,000 euros following a plea agreement for uttering blasphemous expressions during the Crotone-Napoli match on December 6, 2020.
It’s curious, however, that now an analogous incident involving Lautaro Martinez is almost causing a popular uprising. It seems like a case of double standards and diverse opinions, depending on the colours and the historical moment. Yet even in that case, the wheels of sports justice did not turn so immediately, and above all, there were no suspensions for the coach.
Therefore, the question naturally arises: why, four years later, should Lautaro be given a harsher treatment for committing the same ‘infraction’ for which the former Neapolitan Gattuso had made a plea agreement to avoid the sports judge’s disqualification?
