Gotta Love an old fashioned derby

Within the football world nothing draws like derby.  Two city rivals pounded the living crap out of each other for city bragging rights.  Hell strike that about bragging rights, something so trival and bourgeois as bragging rights has nothing to do with a real hard core derby.  When I tuned into AS Roma vs. Lazio I expected the kind of fireworks one finds in a third world hovel turned abbatoir by years of malicious infighting for reasons lost to history.  And yes both clubs despise each other like to the point where it can be said that winning the league isn’t as important as winning the derby.  So imagine my slight letdown when the game became a hard fought but rather pedestrian affair by Roma and Lazio standards.  No right wing facist salutes, nothing thrown off the top tier unto opposing fans, no riots, no fights, no real drama except what went on the pitch.  Yes there were two red cards, five yellows, and 38 fouls, yet nothing occured that made me go yep that is sooooo Roma-Lazio.  Well the recent press surrounding Italian ultras and the violence that seems to creeping into Serie A, maybe a rather quiet Roman derby was what was needed.  Still I kind of miss the rather insipid posturing of a Di Canio “saluting” the fans.  Yeah does nothing for the integrity or public image of the game, but I like hating facists.  Well there’s always Ajax-Feyenoord.