Torino have thrown away 19 points from winning positions this season – the most of any team in Europe’s top five leagues
Do footballing rivalries still matter, without fans to sustain them? Marco Giampaolo is hardly the first to have pondered that question in 2020, but the Torino manager expressed the thought eloquently at a press conference before his team faced
Juventus.
Asked how a Turin derby compared to others he had coached in Genoa and Milan, he replied: “I have no means by which to measure it … The derby is something you breathe from the Monday morning right through to the game on Sunday: you perceive it through the interactions you have with people in your daily life. Right now, that is impossible.”