Old Lady snoozes at the seaside
I haven’t written anything substantial about the match-fixing scandal that gripped Italian football for most of the summer. While the trials were underway, I had plenty to write about the World Cup and, to be honest, I couldn’t have kept up with the steady stream of new evidence, conflicting reports and legal appeals. I just watched with interest, wishing that my team (AC Fiorentina) weren’t implicated.
I still don’t know enough to comment at any length, but there was something so wonderfully, poetically KARMIC about prime culprit Juventus’ first match in Serie B since being forcibly relegated…
Rimini 1 - 1 Juventus (report from the Guardian)
With Fiorentina at the bottom of Serie A, their 19-point penalty still undented after an opening-day defeat to Internazionale, I’m hardly in a position to gloat, but… this gloating opportunity is far too good to miss!