Are you aware of comparatives in other footballing countries? AFAIK it's disgustingly blatant in Italy.
it's probably cultural. not an other european country takes football this seriously. there's not an other country since yugoslavia stopped existing where compatriots have a similar long running beef with each other than the italian south - north divide. and italy is traditionally a corrupt country, so it's more accepted to be biased and shit in your job than in sweden or denmark. and agnelli never were the people's people lol
it's sad and fascinating at the same time. if i wasn't emotionally invested in juve i'd probably be obsessed with calcio's dynamics. now i only want it to suffer and fail
