The referee Bags, as you know, is in the storm. Upon entering the pitch for Lecce and Sassuolo, he shook hands with the two captains, but immediately before greeting Strefezza, captain of Lecce, he ran into his fellow assistant linesman, Francesca Di Monte. Instinctively, Sacchi did not greet her, going to look for Strefezza's hand to say hello: for the more permissive, it was a failure to greet her without malice, simply because Sacchi wanted to greet the captains and had, in all likelihood, already greeted his colleague before entering the field; for the most strict, it was sexism.
Lecce-Sassuolo and Sacchi's gaffe: Aia defends him, but...
The Italian Referees Association defended its client, but ran into one contradiction not recently. In fact, after Sacchi's defense statement, the designator Rocchi would still have decided to "punish" Sacchi with a stoppage. Below is the press release.
“A sexist gesture and obviously also a personal insult must be absolutely excluded. The problem doesn't exist for us, it was just an involuntary and misinterpreted gesture. Rather, it is surprising that we are talking about sexism within an association that has made the demolition of every gender barrier one of its main goals achieved.”
