On 24 April last year, Spalletti’s team, leading 2-0, fell to goals from Henderson and Pinamonti and said goodbye to their hopes of winning the championship
This story proves that eight minutes, eight bloody minutes, can be enough to ruin a dream. Four hundred and eighty seconds and everything you’ve worked, sweated, struggled for in an entire year suddenly disappears, as if it were a soap bubble, and in the end you only have regret and bitterness left in your hand. It happens, in football as in life.