The tension was very high. The rossoblù, penalized after strange doping accusations, felt they were victims of a scam. No victimhood, only the awareness of challenging power. On the eve of the fear of clashes, at the end of the match only applause: the prelude to the play-off at the end of the championship
The Bologna commissioner was forced to yield. “If it rains, the spectators can bring umbrellas.” Luckily, because the weather forecast for Sunday, March 29, 1964 was not at all reassuring: wet Easter, the experts announced. The commissioner, after trying to argue that the umbrellas could be considered blunt objects with those threatening points and that, therefore, if the situation had worsened, there would have been a real battle, surrendered in the face of insistence. So let’s play Bologna-Inter, and if it rains, let’s open the umbrellas and let’s hope for the best …
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