Are you kidding?????? The whole country went totally mad when they realised they were through. Shame????…. what’s that? They don’t know the meaning of the word.
During the three hours or so of telephone calls from my house to just about every relative that ever there was, the constant theme was people driving around like madmen hooting their car horns in delight; the streets were thronged from Domodossola in the North to Aceri in the South; church bells ringing; even cousin Franco ”The horse’s head” was moved to buy drinks all round in the village bar in Perdifumo.
You have to admit, it was a fantastic bit of theatre though complete with face contorted in ”pain”, rolling around in ”agony”, tears, the full works. The man has missed his vocation – he should be on the stage.