Italian football has been hit by another possible scandal, this time involving a team that scored eight own goals in the last 10 minutes of a regional cup match on their way to a 14-3 defeat. The Italian federation is set to launch an investigation into the Coppa Sicilia match between Borgata Terrenove and Bagheria, the final game in a three-team group which also featured Partinicaudace. All three sides play in Prima Categoria, the eighth tier of the league. Bagheria, needing a point to qualify, were 4-3 behind with 10 minutes to play in Wednesday's game when Borgata hit two goals in quick succession. Borgata players then watched in bewilderment as their opponents scored one own goal after the other, shared between three players, Italian media said. The result meant Terrenove qualified on goal difference ahead of Partinicaudace. "It had been a real contest up to a certain point then Bagheria staged a farce," the Borgata coach Ignazio Chianetta told the website Siciliaingol. "Their captain told me they preferred us to qualify rather than Partinicaudace. Partinicaudace's coach Giovanni Cammarata said: "I can guarantee there was no agreement between us and Bagheria. "I can't try to understand a motive for these eight own goals. It has nothing to do with football and I hope the FIGC investigates." Sandro Morgana, the FIGC's regional president, said: "I will personally inform our prosecutors about this and they will look into the case and establish which sanctions should apply." http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/feb/07/italy-borgata-bagheria-eight-own-goals?CMP=twt_gu
To be fair, it is the 8th tier. It's probably the equivalent of The Three Tuns throwing a match against Brownies Bar so that The Admiral doesn't qualify for the next round. Hardly headline news.
What scandals were they? Do you mean when the Italian FA cracked down on something that the English FA lets happen every single year in front of our faces? To me the scandal is people like Ferguson, Benitez and Hughes getting away with exactly the same but that's just me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Italian_football_scandal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011–12_Italian_football_scandal
anyone remember the Blackburn vs Liverpool keeper query? very soft goalkeeping.. let in 3, was Grobalaer I think..
The Calciopoli investigation of 2006 had zero links to match-fixing. Match fixing was not mentioned at any stage of the investigation and no team was ever accused of it, never mind found guilty. Juventus, Milan, Fiorentina, Reggina et al were found guilty of making requests to the Italian referees association that they dont get certain referees for certain matches. Nothing more, nothing less. Ive seen Alex Ferguson, Rafael Benitez and Mark Hughes do precisely the same via television interviews. Mark Clattenburg recently refereed at Goodison Park for the first time in FIVE YEARS since a controversial Merseyside derby. Are you seriously telling me that this is an accident of circumstance? And we say there's a scandal in Italy.....
I think Brian Clough had em sussed back in 1973 after Derby were fiddled by Juventus in the European Cup Semi final, to the Italian press ""No cheating bastards do I talk to. I will not talk to any cheating bastards."
According to the film, Leeds injured a few of their key players before the Juventus game.. The Derby chairman questioned Cloughie selecting the better players before such a big game, but he went ahead, it were Leeds he wanted to beat and in taking them on he lost chance to beat Juve..
