Bodo-Roma, there is something rotten in Norway

Will Smith converts. Two weeks after the night of the oscars (of boxing) he found a surprising emulator in Kjetil Knutsenthe 53-year-old coach of Bodø / Glimt, whose Chris Rock he is not a professional comedian but the coach of Roma goalkeepers: is Nuno Luis Costa Santos, called Cebola, a native of Setubal, like Mourinho. For almost twenty years as a regular goalkeeper – Vitoria, Leeds, Benfica, Rochester Rhinos, Arouca and numerous other clubs all over the world – Nuno has been on the Special staff for three seasons and is so attached to the coach that he is even physically responsible.

What happened after the Conference League match is unbelievable, a real scandal, for the dynamics but also for the timing, the aggravating circumstance by no means generic. A premise is necessary: ​​Knutsen had already expressed his opinion on the eve aversion to Mou and his collaborators emphasizing that “it’s funny, sometimes the fourth official is there to make sure that I never leave my technical area while from the Roma bench five or six run after the linesman without any consequence. I’m joking about it, for me they can also enter the field. When there is a challenge in progress I focus on what we do, what happens on the other bench does not concern me, unless it interferes with our work. We always try to behave in a polite way, it is an important value ». Seeing what happened on Thursday I would say that when God was distributing the consistency Knutsen was ordering a carbonara and a plain salad.

The facts now: during the game Knutsen dealt with Mou’s bench on several occasions, in particular Nuno Santos, the Romanist closest to him. From here on I use the conditional, due to the inevitable urgency of correctness: at a certain point Knutsen would have started to inveigh against Santos in English sending him to fuck him and giving him the son of a bitch. Santos would have repeatedly addressed the fourth man reporting the behavior of the coach. Whose victory brought calm, only apparent. An hour has passed since final whistle and after the meetings with the press, Knutsen in fact crossed paths with Santos, Mourinho and a Roma security officer (the Uefa delegate was present a little further on). Defiantly he would (has) stared at Santos for a few seconds, who had time to ask him if he had any problems before receive a punch in the face.

Incidentally, the Dutch referee Gözübüyük36, clear Turkish descent, and his assistants were already returned to the hotel. Santos would have reacted, but the brawl would have ended in a few moments as other people arrived. Nobody was able to resume the scene, only after everything was resolved is checked the recovery made with a smartphone; video that Bodø would like to be shown to the public. The report of the assault went to the police.

According to what Nettavisen reported, the police have opened an investigation into the incident. On Tv 2 the head of the police district, Kristian Karlsen, he downplayed. Yesterday Bodø issued a statement providing its version, it is understood that Nuno Santos got the punch (word of Lorenzo Pellegrini).

So Bodø: “Roma’s behavior is not just a physical attack on manager Kjetil Knutsen, it is a systematic attack on Glimt’s values. We as a small club cannot stand hat in hand and accept such behavior“. The press release continues by reporting the statements of the same Chris Burke: «I work in football because it is something that excites me and gives me joy. Experiencing unsportsmanlike manipulation up close makes me sad».

The video, writes Bodø, confirms the attack on Knutsen: “the rome»Concludes the club«is bombarding the media with untruths in an attempt to hide unsportsmanlike behavior. There is a video of the incident showing the attack on Knutsen by representatives of the Roma support apparatus“. Knutsen said to himself shocked from the “reprehensible” behavior that Roma would have had during the match: according to Bodø, Santos would have positioned himself “illegally” outside the area dedicated to the technical staff “where he continually verbally harassed Knutsen“. The Norwegian club would have complained to the fourth official and the UEFA delegate on more than one occasion. The complaints were not heard and the coach of Roma goalkeepers, also in the version of the Nordic club, was able to continue without obstacles. «It all culminated in a physical attack on me in the tunnelIs Knutsen again. “Usually, as I am made of nature, I withdraw. In this case I was physically attacked: he grabbed me by the neck and pushed me against the wall. I had to defend myself. There are normal things during a game and then there are behaviors like Thursday night».

While Roma remained until one o’clock at the disposal of the local authorities to provide details on the shameful episodeBodø only reported Santos to the police yesterday and now it is confident that a third party will ignore the “erroneous statements of the Roma coach“. On Thursday the two teams will meet again at the Olimpico: UEFA, promoter of the campaign in favor of Fairplay, has the duty to arrive quickly to the truth and to take serious action. There is no Oscar to collect, only football to clean up.