Serie A chaos: ‘Some idiot typed up the schedule with his feet’

Serie A chaos: ‘Some idiot typed up the schedule with his feet’

The President of the Italian Tennis Association lashed out at the Lega Serie A for the chaos in scheduling Week 37 games. ‘We’re not moving our final because some idiot typed up the fixture list with his feet.’

The situation is truly now farcical, because five games are meant to be on Sunday at 11.30 UK time (12.30 CEST), but the local authorities ordered they be moved to Monday at 19.45 UK (20.45 CEST).

Serie A Week 37 is a farce

FLORENCE, ITALY – NOVEMBER 22: General view inside the stadium Artemio Franchi during the Serie A match between ACF Fiorentina and Juventus FC at Artemio Franchi on November 22, 2025 in Florence, Italy. (Photo by Gabriele Maltinti/Getty Images)

We still don’t know when these matches are going to be played, as the Lega Serie A’s emergency appeal to the TAR tribunal was kicked back to the local authorities, who organised a summit this evening to figure out a common solution.

If they cannot agree, then the TAR will make its ruling on Friday, less than 48 hours before the five matches are meant to start.

Those games are Roma-Lazio, Como-Parma, Genoa-Milan, Juventus-Fiorentina and Pisa-Napoli.

Serie A had suggested moving back the start of the Italian Open men’s singles final to give room for the Rome Derby, but this was rejected outright and in colourful terms.

“The supervisor of the ATP tour is here and this tournament is organised differently to a football competition,” said Federtennis President Angelo Binaghi.

“They can change whenever they like, we cannot, because we have other obligations. And we cannot be expected to move our final just because some idiot typed up the fixture list with his feet.”

ROME, ITALY – APRIL 13: Mattia Zaccagni of Lazio runs with the ball whilst under pressure from Matias Soule of AS Roma during the Serie A match between SS Lazio and AS Roma at Stadio Olimpico on April 13, 2025 in Rome, Italy. (Photo by Paolo Bruno/Getty Images)

This was in some ways entirely predictable, because organising the Rome Derby for the same weekend as the Italian Open was always going to cause problems.

The issue was made even worse by the need to play so many other matches at the same time to ensure fairness.

It could’ve been brought forward to Saturday, but that was impossible because Lazio were in the Coppa Italia Final against Inter on Wednesday evening.