Parma stand on brink of oblivion and make a meaningless win mean so much

Victory over Juventus will make little difference to either team but mattered more than ever to players and fans who refuse to go quietly into the night

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It was at once the least important result of the weekend, and one of the most important all season. Parma’s 1-0 win over Juventus on Saturday will almost certainly make no difference to either team’s league outcomes this season, the victorious Ducali concluding their weekend 13 points adrift of safety in last place, whilst the defeated Bianconeri remain 12 points clear at the top of the Serie A table.

And yet, this result still mattered. It mattered to a squad of Parma players who have carried on showing up to work every day even though they have not been paid since last summer. It mattered to their fans, 15,000 of whom filled the stands of the Tardini despite their team’s predicament. It certainly mattered to the 18-year-old goalscorer José Mauri, who declared this to be the joint-happiest day of his life – matched only by the one when he signed for Parma four years earlier.

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