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The long term readers among you might notice that this isn’t the first time we have discussed Helenio Herrera’s Internazionale side. Seeing as we have already discussed this Inter side’s tactical set-up, there is little need to cover old ground, so we will look at some of the other reasons people believe they achieved greatness. First, a caveat – all these allegations are exactly that: allegations. Ultimately, nothing has been proven, and it would be wrong to judge the team without proof. It should also be noted that despite his greatness, Herrera is a very dislikeable man, and it shouldn’t come as a surprise people have tried to discredit him. However, the context of the time must also be taken into account. There was little many could do to expose any corruption – Brian Glanville attempted to reveal widespread match-fixing by Italian clubs in his book The Golden Fix and found himself universally shunned by Italian football. Glanville isn’t the only one to criticise Herrera’s methods. Former Inter player and brother of star man Sandro Mazzola, Ferruccio, claimed “Herrera provided pills that were to be placed under our tongues. He used to experiment on us bench players only to later [...]
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