Sensational revelation #1:
I didn't really want to write this column, I'm on three hours of sleep, and honestly what I really have to say I'm not sure would be published on a platform that readers are exposed to.
Shocking discovery #2:
The whole world is a soccer field and all the people are watching.
I don't pretend to be a great football connoisseur, and anyway I don't have the desire or nerves to analyze the cowardly game that Maccabi played last night.
On the other hand, I could probably write a PhD on the feelings and emotions that football brings.
That's where this column goes.
Not only Ziv Arya deserves to receive a letter from his fans, and I really don't care if they laugh at me, so in a rather pretentious act I will take advantage of the stage given to me here to write the following words to the players and the professional staff.
I really hope that everyone knows the source, and if they don't want to watch it on YouTube.
"Dear Vladan Ivitch, my name is Aviad and I am 32 years old. I have been a Maccabi fan for as long as I can remember. As mentioned by Neta Hammod (the Hapoel Jerusalem fan who wrote the letter to Ziv Aryeh), I taught my children that when someone falls in the garden - first of all running to give him a hug.
We are with you. For what it's worth - I'm with you at least.
Let the great thinkers and the best commentators spread poison and compete with each other - who hit us harder this time and stuck the knife as deep as he could.
Everyone loves guilt.
I have already heard and read this morning all kinds of de la Schmate experts who were just waiting for the opportunity.
Everyone who, until recently, found any way to glorify and praise the fifths and sixths, found the way to deliver a more or less sophisticated criticism.
They will probably get dirty about your dressing room, about the instructions from above, about level gaps of one kind or another, maybe even mercifully they will invent expressions and sayings of players and present them to the public as quotes.
If necessary, they will confuse the brain even about the gifts for the holidays that the club distributed or not distributed.
This too shall pass.
"They will probably get dirty on your dressing room, this too will pass", photo: Maor Alxalsi
You probably know better than me that you showed your face last night against the one who was the gift that never stops giving, the one who beat us twice in the last 36 games (until last night).
It's not enough that Haifa has been playing the role of "the world's most sleepy rival" almost perfectly lately, we gave it the privilege to be like that, at least until the next cycle.
Even when they took championships in the last two years, we found quite a bit of comfort in the fact that the celebrations in green were overshadowed by jarring losses to Maccabi, we felt that one-on-one they see yellow and act in their pants.
This is our concept, the fans, this is our concept as a club.
Last night, it seemed like a different opera.
Hello, who moved my cheese?
Few things are as difficult for a fan to say as "the better team won" when their team loses.
I'm not even sure that's true about last night's game.
What I can say with my mouth full is that there is no excuse in the world, fatigue, injuries or shortages in the squad that would justify such a horrible and cowardly performance, neither by those on the field nor by those on the lines.
Rebak, one bad day at your job sends tens or hundreds of thousands of fans into a week of frustration.
For the first time in a long time, we came to the game scared.
We stuck to the less flattering side of the scale that ranges from embarrassment to Ivitch's genius, and with all due respect to our opponent - we made her into something she is not.
No group in Israel deserves to be feared, none deserves this honor.
We went into this battle blindfolded.
Ivitch.
"We went into this battle blindfolded", photo: Maor Alxalsi
In the half of the entertainment you provided us last night, we thought something would change, but it only got worse.
Instead of going home ashamed with a point and a 0 draw from heaven, we distributed a gift and left with our hands on our heads.
All victories are similar to each other, and every loss is miserable in its own way.
Hurry up and shake off the dust that landed on you before last night's game, get back to playing your football.
On the good news
side ,
if we can get something out of this: Daniel Peretz is a tremendous goalkeeper.
The bad news:
you are really trying to prove to us time and time again that he is a great goalkeeper.
The really bad news: for
the derby next week, we will probably be 5 points away from the top.
You owe us.
Ivitch, Eran, Enrik, all of them - and you will give back in a big way.
We lost the battle, but not the war.
Let's take this whole thing called Maccabi Tel Aviv and bring the derby."
Yours,
Aviad.
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