Have you people read about the punishment to all those teams in Italy for that big scandal?!
Juventus, Lazio and Fiorentina have been sent to a lower division with Juventus having their two last championships erased and with a 30pts handicap for next season.
AC Milan won't be playing champions league and they will have a 15 pts handicap on next year's tournament.
I wonder how many players will Real Madrid take from Juventus now?
This great match fixing scandal just begs the question once again why would these people atempt to do this when there is such a great chance they will be caught. For all the glory or money they may have made off of it, the glory is certainly gone and the clubs themselves would have to be in a situation where they risk losing sponsorships and therefore great deals of money, if not simply because of the scandal then also because they are being dropped to lower divisions. Some very gready and stupid people out there.
Um.............why? They qualified, there hasn't been any hint of their qualification somehow being tainted. Simply because a number of idiots breaks laws doesn't somehow mean a whole country should suffer.
superman321 wrote:Um.............why? They qualified, there hasn't been any hint of their qualification somehow being tainted. Simply because a number of idiots breaks laws doesn't somehow mean a whole country should suffer.
As they are all a bunch of cheats, on and off the field, there is no way a country in which is embrawled in match fixing allegations of players in its premier division as well as referees and lines men should be allowed to compete on a global stage. No doubt many of the players who playe(d) for Italy are involved in match fixing scandals, wouldnt surprise me if it was involved at the world cup
Once again though, there is no hint of controversy surrounding their world cup campaign and lets remember that we are talking about soccer - where most teams have players who take dives on the field during the match. ALso, none of the linesmen or referees indicated in the Italian scandal had anything to do with Italy at the World Cup itself - especially given referees aren't from either of the playing nations in games.
Diving isnt the issue, although Italy are world famous for it, its the fact that allowing a country of which is involved in such antics and ruining the game of soccer through its corruption is allowed to compete in the greatest stage the sport has to offer, and more over win it, is sending the message that money buys world cups
Also the punishments are'nt that bad, even though they have been relegated and will probably stay down for 2 seasons (the clubs that are relegated), they will still be able to get back to where they were in a fairly short space of time, and they will still be able to get big name players due to the money that they still have.
Might be a bit harder if they have to rebuild their player roster like they'll be doing. The club will take massive hits in the coffers too.
On the issue of the players, they must certainly be individually investigated, but not everyone in that World Cup squad would've been involved, so you can't turf the whole country. Secondly, the investigations into the clubs came down during the tournament, and punishments afterwards, so it would've been too late for the WC.
Anyway, from now on they should be treated like drug cheats if found guilty.
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