Inter beats Milan in the 167th league derby. Also this time, as it has been for so long, too long, I've watched it on TV. I have watched a few derbies liv, I would say a number between 15 and 20.
The first I remember, although I'm not 100% sure that I was the first one, was the one out of the 1979-80 season, which ended with Inter's title. My first match at S. Siro was in May 1974 (Inter-Cesena 3-1), but in the first years my father did not take me to blockbuster matches, he was scared. That year, however, we went to see all the matches, although we still did not have a season ticket, which we started buying next year. I entered illegaly, with a ticket to another seat, appealing to staff (who were not yet called steward, those were only on the airplanes) mercy. I saw the game pressed against a stairway at the entrance of what is now the first orange deck (then there were places, called parterre, between the grandstand and the sideline). Inter won 2-0, with a double by Beccalossi.
Since the year after I had my seat, as a season ticket holder, and in the first deck at that time the only numbered. Of course I do not remember all the derbys I saw, I have some unordered memories:
The first I remember, although I'm not 100% sure that I was the first one, was the one out of the 1979-80 season, which ended with Inter's title. My first match at S. Siro was in May 1974 (Inter-Cesena 3-1), but in the first years my father did not take me to blockbuster matches, he was scared. That year, however, we went to see all the matches, although we still did not have a season ticket, which we started buying next year. I entered illegaly, with a ticket to another seat, appealing to staff (who were not yet called steward, those were only on the airplanes) mercy. I saw the game pressed against a stairway at the entrance of what is now the first orange deck (then there were places, called parterre, between the grandstand and the sideline). Inter won 2-0, with a double by Beccalossi.
Since the year after I had my seat, as a season ticket holder, and in the first deck at that time the only numbered. Of course I do not remember all the derbys I saw, I have some unordered memories:
- the Italy Cup derby, at night (it did not happen in the league) with Milan in Serie B, it seems to me that we won 1-0;
- the "Minaudo derby" in the 80s, won 1-0 with a goal in the final minutes by a player who had just been promoted from the Youth team, precisely, Minaudo;
- another derby of the 80s, finished 2-2 (then it was less common than now ...). The peculiarity was that the week after there was the Rhinos-Seamen American football derby, and it also ended 2-2;
- the derby between Orrico's Inter and Sacchi's Milan: the first half offered a very bad prospect for the future of football: there was virtually no play, the teams were suffocated by mutual press, they quickly released the ball. And it was supposed to be a show football... The second half was a bit better
- the second derby of the 1992-93 season. It was the first year in which transfers were allowed during season (in November) between teams in the same series and Inter bought an unknown midfielder from Udinese, such Manicone, who gave a breakthrough to our game, giving hopes to challenge Milan for the League title. In the derby Inter was long in the lead, then in the final minutes Milan equalized with Gullit and thus continued his record undefeated streak. The following year Manicone finished on the bench, then was sold.
Then I moved to Rome, and for me the big matches were no longer those with Milan and Juventus, but those with Rome and Lazio. I remember the sadness in following a TV derby in a desert bar. I came back to see a live one in autumn 1999: it was the derby of Ronaldo's ejecton for a elbow hit to Ayala, with Inter leading1-0: in the end Milan won 2-1.
Icardi was six, Donnarumma a few months: old it is still my last live derby.
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