La Griglia
Referee selections need clarity here as many have no idea how it occurrs. If you think you can say “send me Rosetti” and get him you need to read this.
Serie A matchdays are separated into 5 standard games and 5 complex games. The 5 most complicated games of the day (derbies, relegation zone or title battles) are placed in the “Grill” (La Griglia). The remainders are put in the standard section. The five most experienced referees are put in a draw and the five less experienced referees are placed in the standard section. Then there are two draws; one for la Griglia where the 5 best refs are attached to one of the Griglia games and the other 5 are drawn for the remaining 5 games.
The draw takes place with a member of AIA present (Association of Italian Referees), an FIGC Member, a Serie A and B delegate, and a member of the press who makes them public right away. The actual draw is conducted by the referee designers who create the groupings of the Grill and the Standard groups.
Here are the loopholes that need to be addressed:
- A referee can never officiate a game where the team playing resides in his region of residence (i.e. this is why Collina has never officiated a Fiorentina match as he is from Viareggio in Tuscany not too far from Firenze)
- A referee can only officiate a team 3 times in a season
Moggi was renowned for managing to figure out “La Griglia”. Giraudo and Bergamo confirmed that he worked 18 hour days and that Calcio was his baby. Towards the end of the season especially he would manage to predict who was going to officiate who based on the fact that he knew who the top ranked referees were and by looking at the schedule he knew what the complicated games would be. Knowing that certain referees had already officiated certain teams 3 times and that others had residence here and there he knew how to use the process of elimination to figure out what referees would be attached to what games. He confirmed this while suspended after Farsopoli when he accurately predicted “La Griglia” on a Radio Show at midweek days before they were even drawn up as noted here http://www.tgcom.mediaset.it/sport/articoli/articolo347140.shtml.
This accuacy was used against him in the initial charges as it was assumed that he knew the referees because he was picking them. He explained himself and his process; the AIA delegates as well as the designers and League delegates confirmed it and the charges were dropped.
The investigations concluded that the referee selections were done in accordance with the rules of the FIGC.
Yet people continue to think he was selecting referees.
Right there is the crux of the matter, why was Moggi obssessed with which referee is at which game?
The more you try to prove your superior knowledge of the Italian system, the more you drop yourself in it as far as I am concerned.
If we just took off our blinkered opinion and look thru the eyes of neutrality, you can see that if Moggi took so much time trying to figure out where referees would be at certain matches, then it is very easy for him to manipulate matches.
From what you have put here, he knows in advance, which referees would be officiating in games that affect Juventus.
Say for example Juventus are meeting udinese in 4 weeks time, is it not possible for Moggi to get referees to soften them up before the 4 weeks so by the time they meet us most of their key players would be suspended?
Is that not 1 of the things he was accused of?
Since it is alleged he had sim cards given to a lot of referees is really beyond the realms of possibility that he was manipulating referees to suit us?
Lets face facts you and I do not know the whole truth and we are both just speculating but I am just telling you from a neutral perspective and using what you have brought up to use against your rationale.
He does not need to select referees, according to you, he knows exactly where they would be and when.
Unfortunately for you and your argument, in a friendly, he did not know who would be the referee and that was why he was asking for someone that would be favourable as unlike in official matches they are not presassigned.
@ Rebel well thanks for saying you will not come down to my level but in the same breath insult me that I don't have a life. Amazing how some people think they can make an underhanded slight and act like the bigger person at the same time.
For those that are offended that I called them stupid well what can i say, i have said in the past that people say moronic thins and stupid things but that does not mean I think you are stupid or moronic, just at that point what was said was stupid.
But in this case well maybe I went overboard but its hard to fathom that someone can come here and say all sorts of things about conspiracy to bring down a huge club like Juventus and you buy into it.
How is it possible that with our history, players we have and had and not 1 person took it upon themselves to challenge these people that gsol has tried to convince us RELEGATED OUR CLUB TO SERIEB?
His reasons are as he put it financial and political.
We all know when it comes to politics and finance, it is impossible for everyone to agree but for everything to just gel and for them to just get away with relegating a huge club without anyone doing anyhting to stop it. does that make any sense to you?
Yes you want to believe so much that your beloved club is innocent and that Moratti and Inter and other people are the bad guys but it is not an individual we are talking about but a big club.
This is not something out of the blue, Juventus have been accused for ages of cheating, yes some of it is jealousy but come on, you do not relegate a club on no evidence of foul play.
I asked Gsol if Moggi was innocent and he said YES.
I cannot believe that because of too many things, too many players that he brought to Juventus, are you saying NOT 1 would protest against the injustice?
Instead of you have a case where players like cannavaro, zambrotta etc just left like that without protesting.
You listen to players speak and they always say they won ON THE PITCH.
If you read between the lines they are saying they were not the ones that cheated but someone did cheat other wise they would be spitting hellfire.
I am just putting myself in player's position and if I believed that Juve were innocent and were set up then I would never leave so whay did all those players leave and why did the likes of Buffon, Trez and Camo want to go to if they actually believed we were innocent?
Or are we saying these players have absolutely no integrity? The ones that went had no loyalty
The ones that stayed are not any better because they actually did business with a board that according to gsol sold Juventus out.
Are we now saying Dp for all his love for Juventus would actually want to play for a board that sold Juve out because that is exactly what Gsol is saying