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https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2006/jul/30/football.features1
Paradiso to inferno (part two) (from 2006)
Jason Burke
"The following conversations, both between Moggi and Italy's most famous sports commentator Fabio Baldas, show how he worked. Baldas is Italy's Des Lynam, reviewing the weekend's games in his weekly programme. Moggi, with his canny understanding of the media, had worked out that the best way to conceal the bias that referees were repeatedly showing Juventus was by exploiting his contacts in the mass media. His logic was that though 50,000 might see the game live, millions had their opinions formed by men such as Baldas. According to investigators, Baldas and Moggi spoke before nearly every programme to discuss what was going to be said and shown, who was going to be given the Roman thumbs up and who got the thumbs down."
"What Baldas did receive in return was access to Juventus and a good source in Moggi - 'Moggi was always really useful, really helpful, always finding stuff out if you asked and calling you back,' said one sports journalist I spoke to in Rome. Also, of course, Moggi had friends everywhere, in the senior ranks of the football federation, in clubs, among players. Moggi's sports agency, GEA, looked after 200 players."
"So why did the referees, who in Italy are relatively well paid professionals, and Pairetto (head of italian ref selection) do what they did?
'Because they had no real choice, because they were weak, because they were ambitious, because they were caught up in a corrupt system,' says one sports expert who did not want to be named.
'If they didn't favour Juventus they wouldn't get picked to referee big games. If they displeased Moggi, they might lose their jobs,' said biographer Travaglio.
It is true that one referee was locked in his changing room and threatened by Moggi, but that's relatively mild by local standards. It's not as if he woke up with a horse's head on his doorstep. Like Pairetto, who knew that Moggi was powerful enough to have him fired, the only possibility is that referees very much wanted to be Moggi's friend. And very much did not want to be his enemy."
That's just a couple of paragraphs..the whole thing is interesting...I think one problem with people who don't think there is corruption is that they think it's implausible - but read the conversations. It's been done, it's not implausible at all...
What happened to refs who didn't favour united..? Why do Sky show some incidents on a loop on SSN and ignore other equivalent ones...? Why are some referees protected by the pundits by not showing and analysing their incidents, when others have their errors highlighted...?
You've seen in your games.. Little talk of the Luiz decision, endless shots of Aguero on Luiz.. they also cut away from Taylor to hide his indecision.. they also avoided doing any real punditry by having that stupid interview with Luiz and Costa, which just wasted time because it was being translated.. Rojo x 2 + Ibra no red cards, Ibra one justified by showing Brunt's shoulder charge on Rashford, as though the two were the same... Get real lol
Paradiso to inferno (part two) (from 2006)
Jason Burke
"The following conversations, both between Moggi and Italy's most famous sports commentator Fabio Baldas, show how he worked. Baldas is Italy's Des Lynam, reviewing the weekend's games in his weekly programme. Moggi, with his canny understanding of the media, had worked out that the best way to conceal the bias that referees were repeatedly showing Juventus was by exploiting his contacts in the mass media. His logic was that though 50,000 might see the game live, millions had their opinions formed by men such as Baldas. According to investigators, Baldas and Moggi spoke before nearly every programme to discuss what was going to be said and shown, who was going to be given the Roman thumbs up and who got the thumbs down."
"What Baldas did receive in return was access to Juventus and a good source in Moggi - 'Moggi was always really useful, really helpful, always finding stuff out if you asked and calling you back,' said one sports journalist I spoke to in Rome. Also, of course, Moggi had friends everywhere, in the senior ranks of the football federation, in clubs, among players. Moggi's sports agency, GEA, looked after 200 players."
"So why did the referees, who in Italy are relatively well paid professionals, and Pairetto (head of italian ref selection) do what they did?
'Because they had no real choice, because they were weak, because they were ambitious, because they were caught up in a corrupt system,' says one sports expert who did not want to be named.
'If they didn't favour Juventus they wouldn't get picked to referee big games. If they displeased Moggi, they might lose their jobs,' said biographer Travaglio.
It is true that one referee was locked in his changing room and threatened by Moggi, but that's relatively mild by local standards. It's not as if he woke up with a horse's head on his doorstep. Like Pairetto, who knew that Moggi was powerful enough to have him fired, the only possibility is that referees very much wanted to be Moggi's friend. And very much did not want to be his enemy."
That's just a couple of paragraphs..the whole thing is interesting...I think one problem with people who don't think there is corruption is that they think it's implausible - but read the conversations. It's been done, it's not implausible at all...
What happened to refs who didn't favour united..? Why do Sky show some incidents on a loop on SSN and ignore other equivalent ones...? Why are some referees protected by the pundits by not showing and analysing their incidents, when others have their errors highlighted...?
You've seen in your games.. Little talk of the Luiz decision, endless shots of Aguero on Luiz.. they also cut away from Taylor to hide his indecision.. they also avoided doing any real punditry by having that stupid interview with Luiz and Costa, which just wasted time because it was being translated.. Rojo x 2 + Ibra no red cards, Ibra one justified by showing Brunt's shoulder charge on Rashford, as though the two were the same... Get real lol