Italian Clubs Fucked!
 

From Glory To Nothing

Juventus, Lazio and Forientina have all be demoted to the lower league

and Ac Milan are now 15 points deducted and out of champions league

which is good things for the transfer market.

Discuss.:pimp

They got what they deserved :upsidedow

Can you translate this for the USA people, thanks

And Juve is starting in the 2nd division with -30 points.
:D

they tried to pay to fix the results of games. As a punishment the teams have been forced to drop to lower league. That sort of system doesn't really exist in American sport so the best comparison I can say would be if a team like the Mets was forced to move totally to the minors.

And start the season 15-30 games behind #1

And they can't play in the European Cup so thats a loss of $15-20 million+ for each club aswell for atleast 2 seasons.

also it would mean that suddenly all the players from the Mets (or whoever) would be looking for new teams because they aren't going to want to play for a team in the minors. So, the market for teams to sign new players would be flooded.

It is really hard to explain promotion and relegation to American sports fans. Personally, I think it makes things a lot more exciting.

Yeah its good drama :p
We had the league winners relegated the following year a couple of years back :D

Its the way sports are build in America, sport leagues are for entertainment where as in Europe its a old tradition of kids and youths starting out by playing for clubs instead of in school.
In soccer every team can be promoted to play in the best league, with enough money and time they can move up from the 14th division or where ever they start.

Sounds corrupt

So the Scudetto goes to either Roma or Inter this season.

not a chance the scudetto will flock to the outer europe

are they formaly still the World Cup chempions?

Aside from the bad spelling, is that question rhetorical?

I love it how when people complain about spelling, their grammar and spelling is checked 10x over; from their usual posts.

Laugh Out Loud.

i heard that the results were to be reviewed. That was 2 days ago.

oh yeh, fair point christie, i doubt things will change, italy will be champions for the next 4 years

but i may be wrong.

I have been wrong on most of my predictions this world cup

i never doubted nothing will change.
May you know then what Italian player said to Zidane to make him so furious?

so sick of soccer

about his wife and sister - confirmed.

about his wife and sister - confirmed

:thumbsup

You need to have a word with your conjoined twin that keeps forcing you to click on soccer threads then.

good thing we don't have to deal with this for another 4 years

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh



:Oh crap

they got OWNED

So they got caught cheating and they still are allowed to play in some sort of league?

They did their best :winkwink:

Confused - ok more surprised really but do not major American sports have promotion and relegation built into the league system (or whatever it is called)?

And if not what exactly do they play for?

Also if not why are American sports so out of kilter with the rest of the world?

Enlighten me please

they play to win..for being the best in that league

a league which almost certainly brings great shame.

football is no longer a sport its a business and with juventus in this league, they have to sell their best players just to keep afloat. business's around juventus will now start falling like flies.

Trust me playing in a lower league for a club like this is fitting punishment from a sports council.

there will also be a legal court where the evidence will be looked over alot more and the possibilites of jail shall arise for those individuals who cheated the most.

Im glad they did something this time.

Serves them right

Lazzio if fucked. Piss broke already and now this.. Juventus will be back but other two won't for a while

Jusr making examples of

the funniest thing is out of the four teams found guilty... the one that escaped relegation is owned by the former Italin prime minister Berlusconi

hahahahaha irony or what. i would have thought everything would have dropped through knowing the italians.

but they are doing well, first the capture of the notorious mafia boss and then the demotion of 3 major football clubs.

i have no clue what he said :1orglaugh

You tell him... :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

damn they dont even have divisions for american handball etc? thats slightly weird. Guess it just has to be as simple as possible to understand with more then 50% inbreed victims (-stats based on the elections).

poor Campionato...

Offensive enough to have that octane powered headbutt..

Well, it is okay not to like a sport but it is annoying when you then follow those that do like it around and tell them every time they talk about it that you don't like it.

I watched USA soccer last night, no wonder they hate soccer, the style was so boring

they are apealing"! and may get away with it