Antonio Conte’s heated row with Juventus president Andrea Agnelli was incredibly not mentioned by match officials in their Derby d’Italia report, as highlighted by the Italian media today.
Corriere della Sera’s print edition was at a loss to explain how fourth official Daniele Chiffi had not referenced the unsavoury incidents to referee Maurizio Mariani following Tuesday’s Coppa Italia semi-final second leg in Turin.
The omission meant Serie A’s disciplinary commission were unable to punish Conte or Agnelli yesterday for their long-distance spat at the Allianz Stadium, leading the Italian Football Federation to open their own investigation instead.
“One has to ask how it could be possible that nobody heard anything,” the Milanese publication reported.
“That was another brawl that discredited the image of Italian football, after the other disgraceful spat between Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Romelu Lukaku, yet without it being reported the sports judge couldn’t do anything.”
Conte was caught on camera showing Agnelli the finger as he walked towards the tunnel at half-time on Tuesday, with a Rai Sport journalist today revealing Juventus were the ones filming him with their own personalised cameras.
Agnelli is reported to have repeatedly insulted Conte from the stands – along with other Juventus players and officials – up until that point, provoking the Inter coach’s distasteful reaction.
CdS gave Mariani a free pass for not spotting the incidents as he was busy refereeing the match, but they were unable to explain how both Chiffi and the FIGC’s two inspectors present all ignored the skirmishes.
Chiffi was due to be called by the federal prosecutors today to provide his version of events in a video call.
