Unfortunately,
Partizan lost the derby from
Crvena Zvezda with 3:2. I will not analyze the game at all, as unfortunately, the most horrible thing that could've happened and that I never thought that could happen - happened in the end ->
Partizan sold the derby! Or in other words the match was fixed for Zvezda to win X-OIX-OIX-OI
It happened that I knew how the match will finish some 10 hours before its beginning. I was told by a very reliable insider that the politicians pressed our players (3 of them) to sell the team and fix the match, and that we are going to lose with 2:1 or 3:2. I took it very seriously because the person that told me this is very serious. Then, a journalist of one very respectable newspaper informed on his twitter account that everything is fixed for Zvezda to win and that we are going to watch a predetermined show instead of a derby. I was very skeptical, I didn't want to believe it, although I told my friends who support Partizan that we are going to lose in a fixed match. And in the end, so it was - it finished with 3:2, and 3 players admitted to several people in the club that the match was fixed, and that they sold us! And it was extremely obvious as, in the second half, we were literally moving away from the ball "supporting" them to score.
I will never forget nor will I forgive this kind of betrayal. They sold the derby to our eternal rival and which is worse, those who sold us are players that are a part of Partizan since their early years. We were betrayed by the "soldiers of the club" which is the biggest possible irony and embarrassment for me. Zvezda was never weaker than now, and we gave them the victory under the green table.
UEFA has strong rules about the intervention of politics into football, but here in
nobody cares about it. The Minister of Defense and vice-premier of the country is sacking the management of a ruined soccer club (and Zvezda is a ruined club) , releasing the man who was stealing the club's money and returning him as a president, and even wants to decide who the coach should be :? ......then, they are threatening the players of Partizan to let Zvezda win, and we can't beat the state project. Zvezda should be playing in 5th league like Rangers as their debt is 66 000 000 (at least), but the whole country stands behind them, and this script was so expected.......
I am terribly disappointed in all this and I have decided to stop watching
football completely until I see some positive changes. If they played a fair match and lost with 10:0, I wouldn't say a single bad word, but they sold the derby and they betrayed us. I can't support them anymore. And Serbian football is a lot more corrupted than I thought. Politics play a major role, and I don't want to be a part of "Political Super League". They can give the title to the state project already, I totally don't care, as
football is dead for me!