Nick Against the World (68 Viewers)
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Not only in Italy. In Belgium the entire league was fixed, and I'm talking about "fixed" not "influenced" like in Italy, yet not a single team was punished. If Lierse actually fix games, which is far worse than asking for a certain referee, that should result in an automatic relegation in my eyes. And the KBVB (Belgian FA) only did something when it was all over while they had already had information about the entire scandal five months earlier.
However in Belgium it would never have happened that individuals got off so easily. I mean giving Moggi a five year ban from football just looks plain ridiculous. Sporting fraud may not be a proven fact, but keeping someone hostage for hours, blackmailing and threatening him must surely result in a heavier legal penalty, no?
As for Italy's culture.. people always laugh stereotypes away, but in Italy's case a lot of them seem to be true. I know someone who lived in Rome for a year and she simply said that whenever she had a problem with a cop she would either act sexy or give him some cash. I guess the main problem I have with Italian corruption is that it's so blatant. Berlusconi, as prime minister, ordering his own firm to construct more highways? Oh come on. And which dumb fuck puts an Inter tifoso at the head of possibly the biggest Italian football scandal ever? That's just begging for criticism.
However in Belgium it would never have happened that individuals got off so easily. I mean giving Moggi a five year ban from football just looks plain ridiculous. Sporting fraud may not be a proven fact, but keeping someone hostage for hours, blackmailing and threatening him must surely result in a heavier legal penalty, no?
As for Italy's culture.. people always laugh stereotypes away, but in Italy's case a lot of them seem to be true. I know someone who lived in Rome for a year and she simply said that whenever she had a problem with a cop she would either act sexy or give him some cash. I guess the main problem I have with Italian corruption is that it's so blatant. Berlusconi, as prime minister, ordering his own firm to construct more highways? Oh come on. And which dumb fuck puts an Inter tifoso at the head of possibly the biggest Italian football scandal ever? That's just begging for criticism.
Well yeah, but in Italy you get the feeling they actually try to act like the stereotype Italian. When I see some long black haired guy, who's wearing sunglasses and a rather tight shirt, getting 80 miles per hour with some Vespa at the Costiera Amalfitana I ask myself questions. Just how "Italian" can you get?
Anything attempting to make normalcy out of a completely f*ed up situation by the trial lawyers is sheer lunacy. You can never roll back time and replay it all as if nothing ever happened. Suddenly a match-up between Chievo and Inter could ultimately decide the scudetto, and yet neither team would be aware of it for another couple of seasons... now how is that supposed to make any sense? Could we be a little more arbitrary?
Or when one team plays another team to draw and maintain a comfortable assumed lead, as Juve did with their draw against Milan at home last season. You change the environment/background, and even how the teams play each other is wholly different.
Anything less is an artificial construct left to the time travel theorists. It's ridiculous to even attempt to pretend you'd know the "what if" outcome, IMO.
Or when one team plays another team to draw and maintain a comfortable assumed lead, as Juve did with their draw against Milan at home last season. You change the environment/background, and even how the teams play each other is wholly different.
Anything less is an artificial construct left to the time travel theorists. It's ridiculous to even attempt to pretend you'd know the "what if" outcome, IMO.
