Italian football scandal Or Rigging on big scale

[Gealai]

By a lover of football, futbol, calcio, fussball, soccer or how else it is called:

Can I ever again watch a Serie A game again without dark thoughts?

http://sport.independent.co.uk/footb...icle363042.ece

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/spor...e-Scandal.html

http://www.goal.com/en/articolo.aspx?ContenutoId=48992

http://www.gazzetta.it/Calcio/Altro_...1/bufera.shtml

http://uk.sports.yahoo.com/10052006/...cusations.html

And it is getting worse and worse - seems that a big deal of what was thought by many and whispered by few now comes all out at once.

It is sad, very sad indeed that Juve which has won most of the scudetti(championships), especially in the last 15 years seems to have systematically cheated with help of chosen referees, players indirectly on their payroll - in the GEA of Moggi's son - and intimidated small clubs. Note that also the AC Milan, the SS Lazio and the AC Fiorentina are ínvestigated for sport fraud. They may face - if this is true and if the correct measurments are taken - to go into the C1 or the B.

By the way, the most named referee under investigation is De Sanctis which will guide games at the german Worldcup


A sad and angry fan

[Gealai]

Piove sul bagnato - it rains on the wet. Juve players are investigated also for betting large amounts of money - one over a million € - in italian matches. Using many small hidden bank accounts they tried to evade sport justice, which forbid these bets for good reason, given the dark past of the Italian league. Gianluigi Buffon, considered by many to be the world's finest keeper is one of them, as Maresca, now the heart of Uefa Cup winner FC Sevilla...

http://uk.sports.yahoo.com/12052006/...l-scandal.html

http://www.italymag.co.uk/2006/news-...-set-to-widen/

Where have we gone?

[Avicenna]

You're not actually surprised that this happens are you? Guess why Chelsea are suddenly so good when they get a multibillionaire owner...

[Ronin]

This is why I don´t watch the Portuguese championship anymore....the amount of referees that are obviously on the take makes most games unwatchable in my opinion...

well....La Liga is still worth watching....I guess

[Gealai]

I'm not surprised that something is rotten in Italy, however never ever would I have thought that the loads of excrement pile up so high.

We are here talking not about one or two referees making favorable decisions for a Club because they fear their might. We are talking about rewriting possibly the last 12 years of italian football and the six titles won by Juve. Just the season 2004/2005 was investigated, but a dark aura follows Moggi since he became Juves CEO 1994. We are talking here about a referee and his assistents locked up in a room by Moggi and Giraudi, two of the Juve Triade, because the referee did "wrong".

We are talking about 21 referees and assistents showing up as "friends" or "killers" of Juve plus the complete chief staff. We are talking about a whole - very popular - TV show following completly Juve's orders. We are talking about the darkest moment of italian football ever and that even we already had one huge scandal which caused the AC Milan among others to go into the B.

So Chelsea might be accused of buying the worlds best players and Maurinho may be a .... for attacking world class referees with inpunity, but distorting with referees at least 20 games of a complete season - and who nows how many before is a complete different beast.