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Mancini: end season now Italian football resumed yesterday amid protests and anger, eight days after hooligans in Sicily killed a policeman in a riot outside Catania's stadium. Four of the 10 matches were played behind closed doors because the grounds did not meet new safety rules. But...

The only sign of tension came outside the San Paolo stadium, where Napoli were hosting Piacenza. Several hundred of the club's hard-core ultra fans protested against the closure of the stadium which failed to meet safety regulations. The city council said it would take two months to carry...

An update on the public safety status of Italian stadiums Italian stadiums have been divided into five categories, as officials try to figure out which clubs can carry on business as usual, and which clubs need to address public safety before Serie A and Serie B action carries on this...

kurvengeflüster, This may answer your question: ----------------------------------------------------------------- Stadiums: How they rate… Only four Serie A stadiums currently satisfy the safety regulations that would allow them to reopen to fans. Footballing...

The same 6 months that made you think twice about being Juve fan??:P

Not everything is logical in Italy, Erik:)

I read in some websites that the fourth stadium is Siena's, not Genoa's...

Now, this is nice: ---------------------------------------------------- Romania refuse compensation Romania have turned down Italy's offer of compensation for the cancellation of Wednesday's friendly with the world champions. Romanian federation (FRE) director Ionut Lupescu said that...

Football Violence Around Europe Following is a list of deaths resulting from football violence at club and international level: May 1984 - Tottenham Hotspur supporter is shot dead in Brussels and 200 fans held by police after riot before UEFA Cup final against Anderlecht. May 1985...

Marco Mazzocchi, a soccer analyst who is host of a weekly television show, said people had hoped that the fallout from the game-fixing scandal would improve matters. "Everyone thought that things would change, but they didn't," he said. Mazzochi sees the violence as a symptom of general...

You mean "no one"...

WoW... Look at the financial losses if Calcio won't resume soon: -------------------------------------------------------- Shutdown of Italy soccer big money loser The temporary shutdown of Italian soccer is not just depressing fans in this football mad country but also spells big...

Previous Violence in Italian Calcio 'YOU will hear about this tragedy for a long time. It is not possible to let a man die like this, alone, without the police nor anyone else to protect him." These sad words from a week ago belong to Ermanno Licursi's widow, Licursi being another victim of...

Interior minister Giuliano Amato said he would no longer send his police force to matches under existing conditions. "Enough is enough," he told Italian television reporters. "Violence is everywhere, but violence in the stadiums connected to a game of football - I find that truly unacceptable."

A Necessary Suspension, Says Cobolli Gigli The Juventus President is in favour of stopping the Italian football for the coming weeks in order for everyone to realize what is happening. Giovanni Cobolli Gigli commented the indefinite Italian football suspension following the Catania...

According to the latest statistics, there are 74,000 recognised members of 445 'Ultra' groups of hardcore fans in Italy... Do you really think they give anything good to the game??

Bravo for Italians' contrition Say what you like about Italian football, currently presenting as shamed a face to the world as we did after the killing of 39 Juventus supporters at Heysel in 1985, but at least it has shown instant and unconditional contrition for the death of a policeman...

Seventy percent of Italians think that calcio matches should be halted for at least a year, according to a poll of more than 13,000 people on Repubblica's Web site.

Palermo chairman Zamparini releases a statement saying nobody has won this game .. these people are delinquants and not football fans .. if this was another country they would have been arrested but in italy they are allowed to get away with it.