If the column is part of Gods plan for the derby we saw last night (Monday), then every time I get to the punch area there will be a flare thrown at the screen or a ball or a drinking glass, but in the end we will leave smiling.
For those of you who are too lazy to read the column all the way to the end and decide to stop now - imagine me shouting "Yessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss"
"Give them this season something they haven't seen yet, not again 0:5, or 2:3 in the extra time of the 90th minute, let's try to get into their hearts from another direction" said scriptwriter A.
"I thought of something, it seems a bit radical to me, but you'll be with me. Maccabi is coming up to play against 5,000 people reinforced by 11 football players. We'll find a directing and production team crazy enough to make it happen," said the sophomore screenwriter.
This is the only way to explain what happened yesterday in Jaffa.
We already have an Israeli script for an Oscar this season.
The first derby for the 22/23 season easily entered the parade of episodes 9 of "Game of Thrones", and it had intensities that I don't remember.
30 minutes after the whistle to start the game, the extensions on both sides of the field looked like the battle zones in Kharkiv and Odessa.
We weren't sure yet that we would even see football that evening.
Already things started to move and tried to play football, the fans on the red side refused to let it happen, as if they expected the next one to come.
So yeah, it wasn't the neatest event to say the least, it didn't have the prettiest football game, and in fact I'm not sure you can even call it a game.
Maybe that's why this victory is one of the sweetest ever in derby games.
It felt like a meeting between exes who for some reason still live in the same apartment.
One moved forward in life, got married, had children and the other (or the other, whichever you prefer) just can't stand this situation anymore, and with her last strength she did everything, but this time really everything, to stop seeing her smile.
The truth is, it's been a good few years that Hapoel has managed to be a third wheel in the derby.
Physically she goes on the field but she doesn't really exist, she simply fulfills her moral duty to be part of this thing called derby and recites the lines that Maccabi wrote for her in the script for this show.
Yesterday, her audience tried to be there for her, but that wasn't enough either.
This historic and hysterical sequence of Maccabi in the derby sometimes feels like the anchor for everything, but it's no secret that it also feels like a monkey on the back sometimes.
You want to get rid of him.
But before every game comes the new excuse that doesn't allow it to happen, last night it was "we have to get the points, we need to get back to first place, Haifa gave us a gift".
After the third goal yesterday, honestly, does anyone even remember that we played for 3 points yesterday?
It is impossible to explain this game and the sequence in the derby, which for me, is everything, except obvious.
Another one-sided derby, photo: Ami Shoman
It's no secret, I've never liked derbies.
The energy and tension that this game takes out of you is truly unbearable on a football scale.
And I am writing this after eight and a half years of having the upper hand.
privilege
What can I do, I didn't get to be part of the new golden generation that doesn't know what it's like to lose this game, and unfortunately I still remember Strauber's cross-fire bombs from Bili and Matelkajski, Douglas de Silva sewing us up in every derby and Tuama's spinning kicks tearing Maccabi's net and my soul.
Go tell the young guys that a loss in the derby is not like anything else, not a loss in Sami Ofer or Turner against the title rival, and certainly not an upsetting loss in Doha.
It really breaks you down.
The firecracker show in Bloomfield,
So I'm happy now.
I'm super happy.
I'm super super happy.
Don't get me wrong for a moment, it's not that I don't understand the level differences between the clubs, their financial and especially mental situation - I just don't care.
I'm happy because I won a derby.
It's as simple as that.
Besides, I'm fine with the arrangement whereby the commentators will continue to claim that the rivalry doesn't exist and I'll continue to celebrate.
Maccabi Tel Aviv celebrates another victory in the city's big derby, photo: Alan Shiver
I'm mostly happy that winning the derby has become something we shouldn't ask Maccabi to do, it just does it of its own accord.
I wanted to end the column with a few words about the next games that await us (Sakhnin away, Netanya Beit, BS Beturner) and the fact that I am happy that Oskar started (must play 90 minutes each game until the moment he leaves the country), Sharan and Yovanovich scored and strengthened the The confidence and more and more. But there's something about this season that feels like we've been playing it for two years straight and we just finished Round 7, so I'm taking a break and enjoying the moment.
Hapoel Tel Aviv players, yesterday at the end of the stormy derby, photo: Ami Shoman
Today I love everyone, kisses.
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