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Milan were also relegated for just being plain shit a couple of years after that. Yo-yo club. The English also believe Inter fixed a game against Liverpool in 1965. Inter won 3-0 in Milan after losing 3-1 at Anfield. But I take most of these claims of bribery with a large pinch of...

Yeah, this is what I'm getting at. These are issues that can be overcome. Whether they can be overcome without materially changing the game of football as it is today, however, would seem to me to be very questionable.

That's not more important. Astonishly enough, it's equally important. Because, you see, that's exactly the question I posed.

Most of the argument I have seen has actually been related more to whether it was a handball rather than whether it was inside the box. And that is handball is one of these things that is very much open to interpretation and so, again, it could well be very hard for replays to overturn a...

Using technology will only be likely to eliminate the refereeing howler. I'm not convinced any of the decisions in Juve-Roma were clearly wrong enough that they could immediately have been overturned on TV. There was plenty of doubt about them - but that won't be enough to change a referee's...

I wouldn't even be allowed an umbrella in a Scottish game. Would be considered a weapon.

Perhaps I should start taking an umbrella to matches.

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You certainly got a huge feeling of accomplishment when you beat that Celtic team. Don't get that with the current one, as enjoyable as it is to beat them. Yup. Always thought England's whole 'left sided problem' showed just how tactically stupid people in that country were (are). I also...

He's Austrian...

I think the role of Calciopoli is probably bigger now in the minds of Juve fans than it is of fans of other clubs. Large chunks of the footballing world believed that Juve had been cheating for decades before Calciopoli, so I don't think much has changed in that regard since 2006. What has...

A hybrid Scottish/Somerset accent must be horrendous. - - - Updated - - - Surprised you don't have caber tossing on your to-do list.

Just go and hang around in Italy and watch football and eat and drink well. Much more enjoyable. Though the scenery here is great...

Meh. Golf and whisky are the only worthwhile attractions.

I don't understand why people want to visit Scotland unless they play golf.

Juve wouldn't win an appeal. Firstly because it isn't clear enough a wrong decision for it to be overturned (even though I believe it was an incorrect decision). And secondly because it would just give more ammunition to those saying the system is pro-Juve.

Well that's certainly what Roma are aiming for by making a big deal of things. But things will return to normal within a month or so as long as nothing else significant goes Juve's way. The team you really don't want to be right now are Chievo. They play Roma next and the referee in that game...

I never saw any suggestion that they were going to appeal. Just saw people around here saying they should appeal it.

35 is about the average life expectancy in South America, isn't it?

Quite. Unlike Alan Thompson, the wing-back on the other side, who was actually a good player and a key supplier of crosses for Larsson, Sutton, Hartson.