Shamed Italians to be named - today!

[Yoda]

Football needs to be sorted out from the very TOP level. FIFA

What's the point in sorting out corruption in league football, when the governing body is 10 time worse than all of them combined.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

Football needs to be sorted out from the very TOP level.

FIFA

Not sure this is really FIFAs fault

 

[Yoda]

Not sure this is really FIFAs fault

Sorry, read edit.

 

[scotjem]

Juventus are going into Serie C and Milan into Serie B, apparently...

... and Serie A could have 3 Sicilian teams. Now who would have thought ...

 

[London Irish]

This is the second time in the last few years that Fiorentina have faced expulsion from Serie A.

Marvellous.

And I certainly won't be crying if Berlusconi's team Milan and the fascist-infiltrated Lazio get the bullet, good news all round!

That really just leaves Inter of the big teams left - while their multi-millionaire owner is seen as a bit of a bumbling fool, at least it seems he isn't a crook. They deserve this past season's Scudetto.

 

[GermanShepherd]

so who was involved then? do we know who and where they gonna play next year?

 

[eastlondonseagull]

QUARTET TO STAND TRIAL IN ITALY

By PA Sport staff

Serie A champions Juventus, AC Milan, Fiorentina and Lazio have been named as the four teams who will face a sports court over allegations of corruption in Italian football.

The hearings will begin next Wednesday at the Olympic Stadium in Rome, Italian federation (FIGC) prosecutor Stefano Palazzi confirmed.

The scandal broke when Italian newspapers published transcripts of telephone conversations between senior FIGC officials and Juventus general manager Luciano Moggi discussing refereeing appointments. Moggi resigned following the revelations.

With 13 members of Italy's squad at the World Cup playing for the four teams, the FIGC waited for the conclusion of Italy's game against Czech Republic before making the announcement.

Italy won the match 2-0 to progress to the knockout stages.

In an eight-line press release, it was confirmed that defendants from the four clubs would receive the 108-page dossier into the investigations tomorrow morning.

A total of 30 people are under investigation, but due to Italian privacy laws, none of the names could be released.

The FIGC intend to conclude the trial by July 9, when the World Cup final will be played in Berlin.

It has been anticipated that severe sanctions, including possible relegation from Serie A, will be imposed on clubs found guilty of attempting to fix matches.

Juventus finished top of the table ahead of second-placed AC Milan in Serie A last season, but were only awarded the title on a "provisional" basis, according to former FIGC president Franco Carraro.

Carraro resigned in May, along with Moggi and the entire Juventus board.