2023-06-10 18:07:57
Promised. Even if it’s tempting, we’re not going to say that we saw it coming from afar, this relegation of FC Sion. First because you don’t shoot at an ambulance – much less at a hearse –, then because it looks really bad to show up at a funeral with the grin of a besserwisser. FC Sion is this old friend with self-destructive behavior, whom everyone saw going into a spin, but whom no one managed to reason with. Should we blame? No, just accept the realization of powerlessness: you cannot save those who are not willing to be saved.
“One cannot save those who are unwilling to be saved.”
At the funeral, everyone looks at each other sideways, misunderstanding is mixed with regret, and yet it is no one’s fault except the principal concerned. The eyes in the vagueness and the vagueness in the soul, we rewind the wire: but at what moment this story could have gone into a spin? We still remember an autumn 2016 that was as mild as it was enchanting in the Old Country. Peter Zeidler had found the formula. He knew how to speak to heads as well as to hearts, Sion was firmly established in second place in the ranking, Tourbillon staggered with happiness. And then the New Year will be even harsher than the Beaujolais of the same cru, helmet bolts on the chives: a lost final, the first in history, thirteen stars that go out. No more irrational mystique, no more magic of the Cup, FC Sion once again became a club like the others. Something had broken forever.
“If there is no good marriage without tears, there is no good funeral without laughter.”
So, the Valaisans lost their faith. There were a few bigots, fanatics of Tourbillon, but deep in their souls, even they no longer believed in it. At the funeral, we didn’t see them cry. No, in their eyes, resignation, if not anger, was stronger than sadness. To tell the truth, we have seen some in disarray: if there is no good marriage without tears, there is no good funeral without laughter. Looking at the mess, all that money, energy, passion, screwed up, we remember that it was written that the end could not be happy. Inevitably, it was going to end up blowing up. We knew it from the beginning, but we promise, we will try not to tell too much.
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– At FC Sion, all is well that ends badly
The inexorable decline of the Tourbillon club was known to all. However, no one has managed to stop the negative spiral.