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Miele · 07-25-2007, 12:45 AM

It's not that it never happened, it's that you never heard about it before.

I think the sport with the largest worldwide audience is football, what you call soccer in the US. It's corrupt, it always has and always will be and the reason is only one: money.
When a relatively small country such as mine ("only" 60m people, Italy) can call football the third industry of the state because it has more than 6 billions euros / year business running, you know something must happen behind the scenes (and since it's Italy, you are sure something's wrong, you can quote me on that, we invented the mafia after all).

During the 2006 summer ther was a huge scandal here: a whole system corrupted, not a referee with debts trying to pay the mob, I'm talking president and vice president of the federation, the vast majority of the referees, a truckload of players and their sport agents, journalists, etc. Hell, you'd be faster to name those who were not involved! It was all going on for years and years...

Luckily (or unfortunately depending on points of view) Italy won the FIFA world cup in the same summer and an italian team won the Champions League this season (major club european competition), so everything took a less shitty look, but it's still disgusting.

07-25-2007, 12:45 AM	#5 (permalink)
Miele Registered User Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 661 +0 Internets	It's not that it never happened, it's that you never heard about it before. I think the sport with the largest worldwide audience is football, what you call soccer in the US. It's corrupt, it always has and always will be and the reason is only one: money. When a relatively small country such as mine ("only" 60m people, Italy) can call football the third industry of the state because it has more than 6 billions euros / year business running, you know something must happen behind the scenes (and since it's Italy, you are sure something's wrong, you can quote me on that, we invented the mafia after all). During the 2006 summer ther was a huge scandal here: a whole system corrupted, not a referee with debts trying to pay the mob, I'm talking president and vice president of the federation, the vast majority of the referees, a truckload of players and their sport agents, journalists, etc. Hell, you'd be faster to name those who were not involved! It was all going on for years and years... Luckily (or unfortunately depending on points of view) Italy won the FIFA world cup in the same summer and an italian team won the Champions League this season (major club european competition), so everything took a less shitty look, but it's still disgusting. __________________ A dire bugie si va all'inferno, a dire cagate si va affanculo.