It is certainly interesting to compare yr link with http://en.wikipedia....Serie_A_scandal (last updated 5May 2007)
Thanks Charles,
they have been investigating for two years without finding any evidence
The sentence was long disputed because of the largely different severity of punishment between Juventus and other involved teams. According to the court the conduct of team managers, considered in all the cases not a real match-fixing but a mere violation of sport loyalty principles, seemed to have, in case of Juventus, the effect to influence match results; whilst in the case of other teams the same effect was not considered so much evident. Juventus representatives considered this assumption totally arbitrary and never proved. Nevertheless the judges WROTE that it is reasonable that one team may fix an entire championship without having fixed ANY MATCH of that championship. The only referee involved was De Santis because of the match Lecce - Fiorentina, where Juve was not involved at all
and Fiorentina is in serie A !!!
There is also the suspect that phone calls had been "fixed" and other had been deleted: there is the technical possibility to do it
http://www.voipbuste...m/en/index.htmland Telecom is directly involved both in telephone records and in Internazionale FC board of directors.
The whole matter is still foggy, it seems that there was a group of people trying to fix matches because of financial interests and/or bets and Juventus simply won too many matches and championships without their "permission" !!!
In the end Juventus had to be destroyed because they had too many enemies in Italy.
Anyway, no money no girl, as they use to say
and no money had been transferred from Juventus to any referee.
We see a lot of him but see nothing of Kaka, so I suppose that is a big factor in our choice and same for Italians.
