No offence Andy, But did you even follow italian football in that time, did you read the italian press etc etc, have you looked into the cases presented at that time.
During the early 90's? No... no... no... no wait... oh yeah, no. And no. I didn't even hear "Serie A" until 1994.
Corruption in italian football through the 70's, 80's and 90's was rife. New stories, accusations and charges every week. Most would agree it was worse than we see today or we saw in calciopoli.
I never said corruption wasn't running rife through those years. However, Lalas insinuated that all smaller clubs (yes, all those lower than the likes of you know who) essentially stepped aside of the bigger clubs letting them cheat without saying a world. From what I gathered from his comments, he was saying that he wouldn't say boo regarding cheating and it was the norm for the smaller clubs to just sit idle while the biggest clubs cheated. I've never heard nor seen Lalas make accusations such as that in his past, and in actuality in an interview regarding his Padova days, he said he enjoyed the experiance. Who would enjoy being cheated every other weekend?
I'm not denying there was cheating occuring during that time. What I'm saying is that Lalas was a little too liberal with his words, which could be construed into the equivilent of saying all clubs in Italy cheated. Now everybody should know that's not fair. In all honesty, it was just a stupid joke that I'm sure some idiot football fans in this country will take as truth, and hence my anger at these EPL marketers within this country.
You've said to me before to just not watch it... but how the fuck am I not supposed to watch it if the said channel is my only access to the game? I know you're a bloody journo Paul but come on... put yourself in my shoes.