Wednesday 20 March 2013

Good Riddance





There is something poignant about Michael Owen ending his career wearing a red-and-white striped prison shirt with BET 365 emblazoned across it...

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Thursday 7 March 2013

Juventus - Corruption Trumps History




Relegated from Serie A for match-fixing in Calciopoli...

A goalkeeper found with a €2 million betting slip...

A manager initially banned for ten months for knowledge of fixed matches involving Siena when he was the boss...

A goalkeeper who transferred large amounts of money to a tobacconist/bookmaker in Parma and, entirely by coincidence, exactly the same amounts of money were immediately bet on Italian football matches...

A club that controls the performances and transfer policies of other Italian teams...

A goalkeeper who has let in 100% of the shots on target more than any other keeper in the top four European leagues in 2012/13...

A club whose 'control' of Undiano Mallenco in the First Leg of Champions League 8th Final against Celtic allowed a complete travesty of a non-sporting occasion to be portrayed across the media...

Juventus, I Bianconeri, La Fidanzata d'Italia, La Vecchia Signora...
...La Vecchia Signora รจ un Vagabondo.

And not only is the Old Lady a Tramp...
...but she is a corrupted one who brings both UEFA and Serie A into disrepute.

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