[dst]

Members of Forza Italia, the political party of former Italian prime minister
Silvio Berlusconi, are calling for a fooball amnesty as the trial into
alleged match-fixing continues.

The initiative for the amnesty has come from Mauricio Paniz, an MP
of Forza Italia and a Juventus supporter.However, special prosecutor
Stefano Palazzi's recommendation
on Milan's relegation have enraged Berlusconi, who is trying
to portray this as a Juventus scandal.

The Milan boss is demanding that the Italian Football Federation (FIGC)
strip Juventus of the two Scudetti they won in the last two seasons. and hand
them to Milan.

However, Sports Minister Giovanna Melendri has ruled out any amnesty
for the clubs implicated in the scandal.

"It is stupid to talk of an amnesty. Soccer needs major reform, " said Melandri.

"The national team's matches are one thing, the sporting trials are another.
Let's keep them separate."

Meanwhile, Internazionale's chairman, Massimo Moratti, who is a friend of
prime minister Romano Prodi, is unimpressed by his two big rivals' alleged
behaviour and unsympathetic towards their current predicament.

He believes that the Scudetto should be given to Inter as the third-placed
team in Serie A.

Moratti is widely respected within Italian football as a man of integrity.

Asked the question, "What do you think of a Serie A without
Milan and Juventus? Would you be nostalgic?"

He replied: "No, I certainly wouldn't feel nostalgic."


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This post has been edited by dst: Jul 6 2006, 12:26 PM

[han2503]

I think that it's absurd to convict/punish some entitys when the ones who have the guilt are some persons. Their guilt is well determinated and distributive and they can be legaly sanctioned
MILAN shouldn't be relegated

I think everyone knows that Milan is innocent in all this, especially when we lost the match we are accused of fixing because we had a goal disallowed in it and more importantly practically handed the title to Juve after losing the match.

I was one of the sceptics when Silvio kept saying we are innoceent and only victims in this because he has done some things in his time that aren't neccisarily called legal but this is getting more clear to me that this is a whole conspiracy by Moratti to send the 2 primary threats to his clubs because he knows that if Milan and Juve stay in serie A he will continue to come in third.

I am one of those that hate Juve but I still don't think that they deserve to go to serie C because mostly this is Moggi's doing and you kind of feel sorry for the players but to send 3 more clubs to serie B that are clearly victims in this and had as much calls by the ref going against them as Inter and Roma but still go to serie B is unnecceptable and smells like a big conspiracy on Moratti's part