10 best excerpts from Andrea Pirlo's 'I Think, Therefore I Play'

Andrea Pirlo

#6 ‘You mess up, you involve me...’

Andrea Pirlo

Talking about the massive betting problem which plagues all of Italian football at its grassroots, Pirlo once again lucidly lays out the situations he has been involved in. The Calciopoli scandal adversely affected the AC Milan team he played with – he was about to leave Milan for Real Madrid in the summer of 2006 before getting a new contract.

He talks about why collective responsibility is a bad principle to use in chapter 8, and uses the following words ‘You mess up, you involve me, I tell you ‘no’, I insult you, I don’t report you and now they come after me as well. It just doesn’t stack up.’

Nobody likes rats, and Pirlo certainly is not one of those men.

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