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Quatro

I spent Domenica (Sunday) in bed. Nursing a hangover and avoiding all contact with the human race – including my increasingly frustrated Moglie (Wife) and inquisitive bambina (little girl).

I would close my eyes and wait for the room to stop spinning. It didn’t. Curse you, Vino Rosso.

When I finally found the energy to check the football scores, I noticed my first love – Tottenham Hotspur were losing. The room span a degree quicker with this news. I scrolled through my bookmarks to check on my other love – Pro Vercelli. I didn’t trust my eyes. I closed them. I felt queasy. I check again. I still didn’t believe what I saw.

4-0???

When the fixture list was first put out, I did casually glance through to see – read: my immediate thought was – when Pro Vercelli would first play Sorrento. Sorrento had started the season as a potential league champion. Admittedly they have lost their best player in Paulinho, who returned to Livorno this term, and had to deal with their owners threatening to walk out just before the start of the season – but still, many must have assumed they would carry last year’s form over with them.

It’s not exactly a crisis. They sit two places and two points outside of the play-offs, but they are nine points off the automatic promotion spot currently occupied by Ternana.

The chances of them getting in to Serie B look slimmer with every game – having won just one match from their last five league outings. Steve Mitchell aka @barafundler informs me that there is a summit meeting taking place today, which could spell the end for manager Maurizio Sarri.

But enough about the negativity of another side.

Pietro Iemmello went someway to making up with the tifosi with his late first half strike, running to celebrate with the section of the crowd, who only last week were questioning his appetite for the game. He has the talent to lift PRO up a division – sometimes he just fails to show that talent when it really matters.

A goal for Umberto Germano, the 19 year old making his first league start for the club and two more for top scorer Simone Malatesta added to Sorrento’s woes.

PRO now travel to Carpi ahead of the winter break. Irrespective of the result, I Leoni will finish the first half of the campaign in play-off places. Something everyone at the club will be 100% satisfied with.

Forza Pro!!!