I want to ask someone like Cronios, do you really think that Olympiakos can get Panathinaikos relegated with no hard evidence and the whole of Greece knows that it was just for financial and political gain.
Would nothing be done? Would there still be a league to play in Greece?
I see your point and i partially agree, but i have to point out a few differences here:
I believe that these days, there is a balance of powers in every championship,
no one has the full control of the league. Political power can help on bending some rules, avoid some allegations and fines,buy some certain refs, win some certain matches, bribe some certain teams or players, but cannot win an entire championship and in any case, go us far as demote an important club...
Same thing
WAS valid in Italy too, by the end of the old Agnelli dynasty...
right after that though, the balance has broken, we no longer have any political back up,
we were still the best managed club in the league and Moggi's
illegal activities were barely enough to protect us and allow us to win the championship, while having the best team...but we tend to lose the background war almost every season, luckily, that wasnt enough to stop us winning the championship most of the times.
But the essence is, we were vulnerable, Moggi is just a manager, he has no real political power!
I was saying that, before calciopoli and even before the EPO farso-trial restarted.
We were too successful for our real power, smth bad was bound to happen,
one way or the other, the combined forces of our enemies were keep throwing mud and obstacles against us, but we were keep winning...till we became the victim of our success and most hated team in Italy, by both fans and managers.
So they have decided to make a big sacrifice and expose the true nature of calcio to the entire football community and take us down, once and for all !
Moggi wasnt expecting that, he knew their very own dark secrets and involvement and thought, that would be enough to protect him,
he thought he would bring them down with him, he though the light can be more blinding than the darkness, well... he was wrong, that was the only mistake of his entire "carrier" and Juventus had to pay the price for it!
This is my view on the matter,i dont believe we are innocent, but we are not any less guilty than the rest, thats what i believed even before calciopoli.
Now about the riot argument;
indeed, Juve even, if it hasnt any political power to react and the only real weapon of our divided, or not, managers was and is "silenzio stampa", Juve has the largest fan base in Italy, by far. Under normal circumstances, they couldnt do that , to us without facing the rage of 10millions or so, angry Juve fans, BUT:
-we really have a degree of guilt and we know it, so we can take it much less painfully
-our enemies have been advertising this guilt for ages, it has installed in everybody's soul, even in Juventini's fans, even to the ppl that know little to nothing about serie A
-they have all the means necessary for this war and esp the media,
the media are enough to influence the ppl's opinion In Italy and halt public unrest manipulating the truth and presenting the parts of the truth that would harm only us, ignoring the rest of the corrupted reality
-the lack of an aspirant champion, of a true leader (official or unofficial) did not allow us, any organized counter attack, there was no one to lead the Juventini in a protest, let alone a riot...
-the world cup and all the circus and influence it had to the ppl, prevented a club-based incidents at the beggings of the scandal
-an ultimate scapegoat was needed, someone to take the blame for everybody, because the situation was beyond of any control at a certain period of time
and the selection of a single easy victim would minimize the damages
Call it coincidence or a well planned conspiracy, but i dont see any similar abundance of favoring factors in the Greek or any other championship,
at the moment! If the circumstances change, everything can happen.
Besides, the Mediterraneans are capable of extreme behaviour, under extreme circumstances, we are a bit of...flammable ppl...
Maybe in a nordic country, such a thing, could be wisely avoided. The Italian drama queens, though, wouldnt miss that for the world. Generations and generations of Italian fans were raised hating the gobbi-cheaters, they all had the lifetime opportunity to nail us for good, for the 10million Juventini that would start a riot if Juve was unfairly relegated, there was a response of 60million anti-Juventini, that would start a riot if Juve wasnt relegated as it should, the truth was quite irrelevant, the fact that Moggi advised his son how to date a bitch was enough...
The press was proved THE most effective weapon in this war, it has clearly demonstrated that the public opinion is easily manipulated by the press,
the manipulated/corrupted public opinion was beyond the prime minister and the president of the Italian league, the final sentence was demanded by the media and the sports court just executed the pre-determined/decided verdict.
There was no room for a fair trial one way or the other, the judges wouldnt be allowed to prove Juve innocent, even if they werent Moratti's men,
maybe they wouldnt handle the title to Inter, or maybe they would go on with the investigations and implicate more persons and teams, but that wouldnt help us much anyway...
The exact way it happened though clearly proved how powerful our opposition really is, in the "under the table" negotiations! They didnt just buried us, they did it with authority, we were totally helpless for a great sum of reasons.
Thats why our board has chosen to quit so early and thats why they left so many "evidence" for ppl like gsol to find, they dont care about that anymore, they dont feel threatened,
noone will dare to face them again after that, not even Berlusca...
The other teams are happy to take a new share in the game balance, pieces of the old Juve empire are enough to feed many vultures...
PS: It seems that, the only thing that saved Berlusca and his team, is that he had the league's TV rights and a great deal of serie A incomes, under control.
He had anything we hadnt, political influence, media favor, connection in the highest places, an aspirant leader that dared to declare "Milan has nothing to do with this" from day one, just like Bill declared "I did not had any sexual relations with Monica"
and they were still came up against similar accusations to ours, in the end though, everybody saw what true power really means...you dont mess with the best, cause you will die like the Juve rests!
I think that my opinion includes most of the gsol "facts", (apart of the inside enemy part, witch i dont fully comprehend yet, did Respaul made, any comment on that????) and with Denco's psychosis, that we are guilty as hell, also considering the Italian "cosa nostra" reality, the calcio recent history and modern re-writing of future history... As the times paces our view on the matter will become, more complete.
I presented my current view on the matter in a Catania resident, a Juventino from Bari and and a Milan fan from Palermo IIRC, my view was always caught it the middle, so i think it tends to be an objective one...Do not overestimate Italian's knowledge on the matter, only Juve supporters and Juve haters remember half of the facts.
My opinion though changes with the constant flux of facts and opinions backed with solid arguments, thats why i m really interested in gsol's job (the facts speak by them selves some times but there sure has to be more incriminating info against us, remained undiscovered) and i do appreciate Deco's presence and devil's advocate stance, to keep doubts, at bay,(even though he lacks facts, he has some solid argumentations based in common logic, not always though

) i hope he wont permanently leave the conversation, as he threatened...