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He's Austrian...

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.

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'd have to move out of Scotland to have a chance. That's not going to happen in the immediate future.

Indeed. If I hadn't been brought up with a strong attachment to Aberdeen, I'd steer well clear of it.

With all due respect, you don't watch Scottish football.

Yeah, you'd just put that one down as a generally inadequate refereeing display rather than a particularly biased one.

And that is to be expected. Referees are human and are subject to external influences - whether that be from the people running the football association or simply not having the nerve to give Aberdeen a penalty in front of 50K+ Glaswegians. But the standard 'big club bias' argument can only...

That's fine if you believe these teams are getting the favourable calls due to nothing more than good fortune. Or do you mean that being brave enough to bribe officials will bring you good fortune? :P

And if you ask fans in Italy, you will find there is a belief (which may or may not be justified) that Juve have, more often than not, been the beneficiaries in these controversial games for as long as anyone can remember, which is where the problem comes from. Coming at this from the point of...

It's about time someone on the Roma side started to try and defuse things.

Meh. It's just the big story until the next story. Maybe Conte will do Juve a favour and have Italy suffer an embarrassing loss to distract everyone in the media...

Certainly in private, but I'm not sure he should be saying anything very much in public. Sometimes better to keep quiet rather than entering into an argument/slagging match. I think he's better letting this all die down as quickly as possible rather than rising to the bait.

I actually thought Gazzetta was being relatively reasonable.

If he was just sent off for the tackle, he won't get more than a two-match ban.

Yeah, I didn't agree with that, but it wasn't an important decision in the overall scheme of things.

I agree with Alen's overall summary: I don't think there was much you could say the ref was clearly wrong about in the game. The issue is that there had to be considerable doubt on the two penalty calls so, rightly or wrongly, you probably expect to get one of the two decisions in your...