[ITA] Serie A 2013/2014 (62 Viewers)

Lancelot

Senior Member
Oct 24, 2011
2,366
Gennaro Gattuso dramatically proclaimed his innocence of match-fixing charges. “I’d kill myself in the town square.”

The former Milan midfield and ex-Palermo Coach saw his house raided by police this morning as part of an investigation into betting syndicates in Italy.

“I want to clarify something: in my life I have never sat down with anyone to fix games, nor have I ever thought to, as I wouldn’t even know where to start,” he told Sport Mediaset.

“I am prepared to go into the town square and kill myself in front of everyone if I should be found guilty of such a crime. After all, my life would be meaningless from that point on. I wouldn’t have the courage to look anyone in the eye. I say that from the heart.

“I don’t even play five-a-side football with my friends because I can’t stand losing. The phone records show Bazzani sent me 13 text messages. They will therefore also show I never replied to any of them. This man knows half of Serie A, he came to the Milanello gates like many hundreds of others. He was a bookmaker in Bologna, but I never talked about fixing games.

“Match-fixing is just not part of who I am. I made some bets when it was still allowed, but as soon as it was barred for professionals, I stopped. No problem.

“I am accused not of placing bets, but of fixing games and I can’t understand how they can do that. I was in Naples, so only found out about the raid from my wife this morning, after police took me in to sign some papers. I hope the magistrate calls me in soon because I want to clarify my position.

“I had also been dragged into this affair two years ago. I am convinced and fully aware of my innocence. I spent my entire career working hard. I have a foundation that allowed me to give away €1.5m to help children and then people suggest I fixed games to earn more? It just doesn’t make sense.”

FI

Do it, Rino.
 

Ragazza

Calciopoli Director
Jul 22, 2013
5,060
The capo of Milan's ultras says that Curva Sud will be in solidarity with Curva Nord. Don't know if this means they will leave their Curva empty too, or if they'll just be silent or something.
 

Alen

Ѕenior Аdmin
Apr 2, 2007
54,023
Gennaro Gattuso dramatically proclaimed his innocence of match-fixing charges. “I’d kill myself in the town square.”

The former Milan midfield and ex-Palermo Coach saw his house raided by police this morning as part of an investigation into betting syndicates in Italy.

“I want to clarify something: in my life I have never sat down with anyone to fix games, nor have I ever thought to, as I wouldn’t even know where to start,” he told Sport Mediaset.

“I am prepared to go into the town square and kill myself in front of everyone if I should be found guilty of such a crime. After all, my life would be meaningless from that point on. I wouldn’t have the courage to look anyone in the eye. I say that from the heart.

“I don’t even play five-a-side football with my friends because I can’t stand losing. The phone records show Bazzani sent me 13 text messages. They will therefore also show I never replied to any of them. This man knows half of Serie A, he came to the Milanello gates like many hundreds of others. He was a bookmaker in Bologna, but I never talked about fixing games.

“Match-fixing is just not part of who I am. I made some bets when it was still allowed, but as soon as it was barred for professionals, I stopped. No problem.

“I am accused not of placing bets, but of fixing games and I can’t understand how they can do that. I was in Naples, so only found out about the raid from my wife this morning, after police took me in to sign some papers. I hope the magistrate calls me in soon because I want to clarify my position.

“I had also been dragged into this affair two years ago. I am convinced and fully aware of my innocence. I spent my entire career working hard. I have a foundation that allowed me to give away €1.5m to help children and then people suggest I fixed games to earn more? It just doesn’t make sense.”

FI
I'm not buying your excuses, you match fixing monkey.
 

Elvin

Senior Member
Nov 25, 2005
36,923
how stupid are FIGC authorities, man... stadium atmosphere is the only thing going for Calcio atm, and they're out to ruin it :lol:

idiots, just pure idiots.
 

ALC

Ohaulick
Oct 28, 2010
46,541
i think their thought process goes something like "what's different between us and the rest of the top leagues except for a shitty governing body run by people that can't tell their own shit apart from their face?"

shitfaces.
 

Ragazza

Calciopoli Director
Jul 22, 2013
5,060
how stupid are FIGC authorities, man... stadium atmosphere is the only thing going for Calcio atm, and they're out to ruin it :lol:

idiots, just pure idiots.
Yeah, honestly part of what attracted me to Italian football (I've actually been watching the PL & La Liga longer than Serie A) was the atmosphere. Everyone knows about the watered-down atmosphere in the PL, and they're banning more & more supporter-related things in Spain as well. I don't want calcio to turn into the same thing.
 

Ramin

vBookie Champion
Nov 18, 2003
4,728
Italian mentality is beyond fvcked up. Every time some sh!t like this pops up, the police goes raiding into their homes. Just WTF do they expect to find by raiding their homes? Money? Is it so hard just to ask them in for questioning, instead barging in on them like criminals? And all this because some guy texted him? Pathetic.
 

Bianconero_Aus

Beppe Marotta Is My God
May 26, 2009
81,191
Italian mentality is beyond fvcked up. Every time some sh!t like this pops up, the police goes raiding into their homes. Just WTF do they expect to find by raiding their homes? Money? Is it so hard just to ask them in for questioning, instead barging in on them like criminals? And all this because some guy texted him? Pathetic.
:agree: the whole country is fucked from top to bottom. Beautiful country filled with fucking morons. Now I know why my relatives immigrated from that shithole as soon as they could.
 

Ragazza

Calciopoli Director
Jul 22, 2013
5,060
Apparently there's no proof he actually responded to any of the texts either, I suppose they can still get him for failing to report though if he was aware someone was attempting to fix a match.
 

Amer

Senior Member
Feb 13, 2005
11,355
Gennaro Gattuso dramatically proclaimed his innocence of match-fixing charges. “I’d kill myself in the town square.”

The former Milan midfield and ex-Palermo Coach saw his house raided by police this morning as part of an investigation into betting syndicates in Italy.

“I want to clarify something: in my life I have never sat down with anyone to fix games, nor have I ever thought to, as I wouldn’t even know where to start,” he told Sport Mediaset.

“I am prepared to go into the town square and kill myself in front of everyone if I should be found guilty of such a crime. After all, my life would be meaningless from that point on. I wouldn’t have the courage to look anyone in the eye. I say that from the heart.

“I don’t even play five-a-side football with my friends because I can’t stand losing. The phone records show Bazzani sent me 13 text messages. They will therefore also show I never replied to any of them. This man knows half of Serie A, he came to the Milanello gates like many hundreds of others. He was a bookmaker in Bologna, but I never talked about fixing games.

“Match-fixing is just not part of who I am. I made some bets when it was still allowed, but as soon as it was barred for professionals, I stopped. No problem.

“I am accused not of placing bets, but of fixing games and I can’t understand how they can do that. I was in Naples, so only found out about the raid from my wife this morning, after police took me in to sign some papers. I hope the magistrate calls me in soon because I want to clarify my position.

“I had also been dragged into this affair two years ago. I am convinced and fully aware of my innocence. I spent my entire career working hard. I have a foundation that allowed me to give away €1.5m to help children and then people suggest I fixed games to earn more? It just doesn’t make sense.”

FI

Do it, Rino.
Liar liar pants on fire.
 

CrimsonianKing

Count Mbangula
Jan 16, 2013
27,328
:agree: the whole country is fucked from top to bottom. Beautiful country filled with fucking morons. Now I know why my relatives immigrated from that shithole as soon as they could.
Italy has around 60 million people today. My country has the biggest Italian community outside of Italy, around 31 million people are of Italian descent. That's more than half the Italian population.

Just so you have an idea of how many Italians fled their country for whatever reason. Whoever had the chance to leave, left.
 

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