When Italian players finally had enough of the media and showed the world what they could do

The media eternally aim to persuade us that they simply report the news, but of course they always do so with a slant.  For the mere selection of one item as news and another as not worth reporting itself results in bias. Yet just occasionally they are caught out, as in 1982 when the Italian media wanted to dictate who should be in their country’s world cup team.  Rossi, they argued was morally unfit to play for the country, but their manager, and his team mates would have none of it, turned their back on the media, refused to do interviews, and went on and won the world cup.  A lesson to all footballers: beware the perfidious media. As reported below, this day in 1982 was a day when the Italian players took back control. Here are the anniversaries.   5 July 1910: Harry Logan signed for Arsenal from Sunderland, having previousl...