Adiconsum and a company specialized in the sport marketing state it clearly: the referee mistakes in the league have penalized Milan.

ROME – Despite the arrival of the super-designator Pierluigi Collina, at the 7th matchday of the 2007/08 season of Serie A, 43% of the matches remain distorted by referee mistakes, worse than last year when the distorted games were 41%. The data confirms what was already noticed by the Observatory during the World Cup of last year, and in the previous football seasons: too many referee mistakes, which upset the standings and football betting. This is what emerges from the update up till the 7th matchday of Serie A 2007/08 by the Observatory on the Referee Mistakes in football, led by Make Tailored Advertising (company specialized in the sport marketing) together with Adiconsum.

In the study, 39 cases were taken under examination in goal-non goal actions on which the referee tern made an evaluation mistake, as reported by the 3 Italian daily sports newspapers. The referee mistake was compensated to produce a virtual league table (Virtualclass ®), in which it results: altering the results of 30 games (43% of the total, against 41% of the previous entire season). In 6 games there was more than one mistake. 48 points were moved in the standings (6.9 per matchday, against the 6.3 of the previous season).

Interesting the almost totality of the squads: 19 from 20 (95%). The big teams were especially punished (Milan: -5 points; Juventus: -4; Inter, Lazio, Genoa: -2; Roma and Fiorentina: -1, signifying the fear after Calciopoli of appearing favourable towards the strong ones. The only exception is the usual Reggina, punished with a record -6 points, following the -18 of last season (Adnkronos).

MILAN - HOW IT IS:
Inter 17 points;
Juventus e Roma 14;
Fiorentina 13;
Genoa 12;
Palermo e
Udinese 11;
Milan, Napoli e Atalanta 10;
Catania 9, Sampdoria 8;
Torino, Lazio e Cagliari 7;
Siena e Parma 6; Empoli 5;
Reggina 4;
Livorno 2.

HOW IT WOULD BE WITHOUT REFEREE MISTAKES:
Inter 19 punti;
Juventus 18;
Milan e Roma 15;
Fiorentina e Genoa 14;
Palermo e Udinese 11;
Reggina, Napoli e Atalanta 10;
Catania e Lazio 9,
Sampdoria 8;
Torino e Cagliari 7;
Siena e Parma 6;
Empoli 5;
Livorno 2.

How stupid is this!! I consider it a disgrace that it's on our official web site!

How are these points calculated anyway... maybe they say we would have won the Palermo game but who knows if Palermo would have equalized without a referee mistake... football is a 90' game it doesn't end in an hour! Sorry, but this is utterly lame in my view...

But I guess that maybe also our sponsor has something to do with this (being posted)!



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Yeah I know what u mean .. I was confused and kept confusing myself even more by trying to make sense of all the "deducted points" ...

We should have won that game in Palermo, fair and square it was 3 points in our pockets ..

This is stupid. You can never predict the outcome of a football game, never.

Well, if I had seen this on Inter's official website three years ago, I probably would have mocked them for being so childish. it's not pleasant to see our board justify the team's poor performances with this ridiculous facts.

i dint think we could stoop to this level. i can understand a carlo/galliani/berlusconi saying they dint like certain calls but coming out and saying on 3-4 occasions that the reason we dint win was cuz of the ref is showing no class but, but to come out with these so called stats... wow i'm speechless.

It only takes a kaladzity for things to be turned upside down in football... we deserved to win but that doesn't mean in any way that we would have won too!

TWO cookies for you, dst. That one's classic.

they are just trying to hide the fact that our team is crap and we only won 2 games and the only person they could put the blame on is the ref....

and i also think that we got away with some other things like lazio

Hey !!! Maybe ur team is crap ! My team is the reigning Champions of Europe and recent Super cup winners !! My team is 7 points off of 1st place and there is 32 games left to play for in the season !!

This is a grand Milan side ur talking about.

No, that's England.

I don't see why this came out after a 5-1 win, very weird timing indeed. We could be within 2 or 3 points of first place in a few weeks, don't call us crap just yet.

Can we do it after the Empoli match. No Kaka! Can you imagine Inter playing without Porty's boyfriend? We're Milan not Arsenal where everyone is replaceable.

no but i am saying we are crap cuz we play great football then we dont get the result just like palermo, parma, celtic, Siena and Fiorentina.....

but i know that we are a good team but without kaka and seedorf we are nothing !


to be champions we have to have better cover for kaka and now look ronaldo was out how many times did we draw and i think the other problem is that our team is too old and cant play 100% every game

Again we hear the same thing every season .. "Milan are old" .. "Milan cant compete without Shevchenko (Kaka', etc).." ...

p.s. this old team has won more than any other team out there today

Furthermore it's always the same...it we loose a game it's because we've got a old team, but if we win one they say nothing....

i am saying that our team is too old because oddo's sub is 36, janku's sub is wht 34 35 36?? samething pirlo' sub 31-33- gattuso' sub 31
seedorf's sub is 21 but needs more time kaka's sub is i dunno
ronaldo's sub is 35 gila's sub is 17 or gila will be a sub i dunno but i know that pato will need a bit more time ..... and dc i dont need to say !

Your team is now 10 points behind the first place and there is 31 games left to play.

Well...what's the point in fighting for a cause if it's too easy in the first place...

It's called giving the weaker guy a head start

exactly straight to the point , yes we may need cover and i think we will buy someone in January or maybe at the end of the season , but think we will only need one or two new players

And ?

What is ur point exactly ? That the difference is greater now than it was a week ago

p.s. I already told u, u want to bash and moan go ahead ... But don't be a hypocrite and say 'I knew it' or 'Only Milan' when Milan thrashes inter in the derby and wins the CL

It's not a fight. just a reminder.



My point? nothing, like I said I was just reminding!
"I know" we're going nowhere in the league. but the CL... maybe we win in. we're specialists in this field after all

But wait a minute... thrashing Inter in the Derby?! you can't be serious this time, or are you?!

R u forgetting this is AC Milan ?

p.s. reminding me ? Ok keep it up

We're not talking about Slavia Praha or something. we're talking about the team that doubled us last season and edge us in derby wins (in Serie A) and ARE playing much better than us right now. sad but true!


I will.

I'll hold u to that when we humiliate them

^^^

OK!

What ? You don't think so ? The game will be on Dec 23rd and by that time Milan will be in tip top shape.

You'll see.

and 15 pts off inter