New match-fixing in Italian soccer.
I could probably have posted this once a week for about 20 years, and it would be a different story every week. Italian soccer is some of the dirtiest in the world (both on and off the pitch), and, today, the biggest story regarding how much Italian soccer needs to be shut down completely is not the collapse of former Serie A squad Parma, now with no assets to speak of, and relegated all the way to Serie D -- to which I can't even see a future there.
But, today, a Serie B club is now under the microscope in a BBC report indicating it paid about 100,000 Euros to avoid the drop to Serie C.
Catania is the team, and the city's police department arrested seven people -- including the manager of the squad, the president of the team, and the latter's deputy -- for engaging in sports bribery.
Catania is believed to have paid opposing clubs 100,000 Euros to ensure it got enough points to be spared relegation (or the playoffs) in five late-season matches. At least 19 people are under investigation, including team members and illegal gamblers.
Look, do I have to go into the history of how shit-corrupt Italian football has been for a generation or more?
Is it not far past time to shut the whole mess down, baby and bathwater, for the proven criminality which is required to continue Italian soccer?
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