mark83, you know what our illicit behavior was?
"We influenced the champioship and did so without influencing the decourse of the matches nor their results" (taken from the verdict)
Now, considering that what happened on the pitch wasn't influenced by anything, we know that nothing that happened on the pitch was done in bad faith and in fact no one was punished for it: no players, no linesmen, *no referees*. So, no one acted in an irregular way.
We also know that the results of the matches remained as they were at their end.
But we still influenced the championship. How? The verdict itself says that the refs didn't favour us. If someone could just explain me how, I would be very very happy.
Btw, Mark, it's not me who has to prove that we were innocent, it's the verdict that has to prove that we weren't. It's basic law.
But even if we had to, I'll have you know that it's not like anyone has the power to get themselves transcripts of phone taps, not even the sportive justice.
Only ordinary judges can sign such an authorization and then the transcripts can be used only for the trial they are disposed for and, after that, they become useless, being phone tapping something very lesive of the privacy of citizens.
In fact it was an ordinary judge that signed the authorization for those taps and, of course, he signed it for an investigation of the *ordinary justice* and only for that investigation the taps should have been used.
Well, anyway, the investigation of the ordinary presecutor office that obtained the taps was working to accertain that the championships were regular and that no one was influencing them in an illicit way.
After almost a year (2004-05 season), they dropped this investigation, because the prosecutors, after months of researches, of analysis, of taps, came to the conclusion that the quest was pointless, because nothing could lead to think that there was anything irregular in what was going on.
It's quite paradoxal: the same material that proved us to be innocent for the ordinary judges is the same one that sent us to b, with courts headed by men named by Guido Rossi, ex member of the inter board, member of the telecom one, telecom's president to be.
As for the will of the club to defend itself: after having fired their managers after just a couple of taps illegally printed on newspapers, they hired a lawyer specialized not in administrative issues, but in penal ones, they made him ask for a penalized b (!!!), after that they made him appeal to tar, the day before the hearing they retired the appeal and, after that, they renounced also to appeal to TAS.
After all of this, you can read the statement of Cobolli in my signature.