Its a bit of a farce. The teams are appealing on several grounds, most notably that the defense never got a chance to state their case.
This is going to ruin Italian football for a long time. Most of the stars are going to bolt, with only a few likely to remain out of loyalty (Del Piero and Nedved for sure, maybe Cannavaro and Zambrotta).
This hardly taints the World Cup win since no players were implicated and this is a scandal of officials (club, league and referee). Its actually very unfair that any team was relegated... the individuals responsible should have been put in jail and fined heavily. Now the teams will lose millions of dollars, fans, reputation, and the league and national team themselves will be garbage for a while.
By the way, this is hardly an Italian only problem. Leagues in Germany, Greece, Belgium and I beileve England as well have had their share of scandal.
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