italian football is notorious for paying off refs, from what i've read it was common-practice in the 90's and i guess hasn't changed a bit.
Add-on to this the behaviour of their fans, and you can't help but think how much FIFA protects the serie A.
Italy is without doubt the 'sickman' of europe right now, none of their teams should be in any european competition right now...
If even ONE of those charges was levelled at the premiership, british clubs would be banned from europe for five years in a flash - thats why i hate sepp blatter, he seems to have utter hatred for british football and only wants to protect the 'stars'.
oh, and as far as i know pretty much none of the italian teams were relegated: the way the charges were brought down to nothing over about 2 months was incredibly indicative of how corrupt italian football is.
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