Among the Cagliari-Lecce precedents, the most “hazy” in history is the one from the 1976-77 Serie B championship tournament. A match that cost Cagliari, vying for promotion, an immediate return to Serie A after relegation the previous season.
This is what the Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno wrote at the time: ” The facts went like this: having finished 0-0 in the first half, the players were on their way with the referee and signalmen to the underpass when something happened. At first in the stands nothing else could be ascertained. Ul something, in fact, we were able to reconstruct only at the end of the match; a Cagliari fan forcefully hurled an orange, hitting Cannito in the middle of the face, who at that very moment was at referee Lobello’s side. The boy was in shock for a while, bleeding profusely from his nose, vomiting, and experiencing dizziness, so the decision was made to accompany him to the hospital. Renna had to playfully bring Lorusso onto the field and thus disrupt the team’s set-up. At this point it may even seem superfluous to recount ninety minutes over which the sports judge should pass a clean sweep, however, let’s say right away that Cagliari had only one merit, that of luckily zeroing in with three minutes to go on the goal-ball with a boy from the spring, Bellini”
Article It happened today: the orange thrown in Cannito’s face that cost Cagliari Serie A comes from Calcio Lecce.
