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[giallo-rossi.ie]

This is very worrying..........:

Calciopoli Watch: Roma & Palermo Also Called Designators, Bergamo Adamant That Facchetti Demanded Collina Appointment


Roma and Palermo among others are the latest clubs to have been involved in calling referee designators after more evidence from Tuesday's Calciopoli trial in Naples was published by the Italian media.

Of the 75 calls that Luciano Moggi's defence team presented to the court, a number included the newcomers, meaning that 11 of the 20 clubs who participated in the Serie A championship at the time were involved to some extent in calling the ex-designators Paolo Bergamo and Pierluigi Pairetto. Those 11 teams are Bologna, Cagliari, Fiorentina, Inter, Juventus, Lazio, Milan, Palermo, Reggina, Roma and Udinese.

Juve, Lazio, Milan, Fiorentina and Reggina were already punished during the 2006 sporting trial.

Tuttosport claims 43 phone calls of the 75 presented involved Inter, and some of those were played out at the hearing yesterday. Nine calls involved Milan, but the latest evidence involves Roma and Palermo to as well as Udinese, Cagliari and Bologna.

In one call dated April 14 2005, the then Rosanero director Rino Foschi speaks with former referee Massimo De Santis, one of the alleged plotters.

Foschi: Am I disturbing you?

De Santis: No, no, I have just finished training.

Foschi: The other day I spoke with V... It was a personal thing, but not one that I want alone, do you understand? When are we going to see each other?

De Santis: What, and you tell me now... you think.

Foschi: It's all easy for me... for me it's difficult, difficult.

De Santis: Look, we will organise something.

The other calls involve Cagliari, Bologna, Reggina and Roma. Reggina were already penalised by the 2006 sporting trial.

Roma's call involved Daniele Prade and Innocenzo Mazzini, the former FIGC vice president. Both Tuttosport and La Gazzetta dello Sport claim the call was before the Lupi's trip to Atalanta in which Antonio Cassano scored the winner.

Prade tells Mazzini: "We are counting on you." a day before the game.

In relation to the phone calls involving Palermo, Maurizio Zamparini insists his club did nothing wrong in calling the ref chiefs and he was quick to defend his position.

"I don't have to calm anyone because I am not worried at all. I called three times to complain about referees, but it's one thing complaining, and another trying to gang up on others. The fans shouldn't worry," Zamparini is quoted as saying on Goal.com Italia.

Earlier, Moggi's legal team were accused of falsifying evidence in court by Gianfelice Facchetti, the late Giacinto Facchetti's son. He argued his father, who at the time was presdient of Inter did not ask for specific referees.

But, Bergamo who spoke to Facchetti at the time, offered a contrasting view. He maintains that Facchetti did in fact ask for Collina in one of the calls.

"It was Facchetti who nominated Collina, not me," Bergamo told Rai.

Tuesday's court session revealed a call in which Facchetti had invited Bergamo to go to Moratti's offices because there was a gift waiting for him.

"I cannot remember going to Inter's offices to pick up a present. But, at the time it was Christmas and we received presents from everyone. In looking at this there needs to be some good sense," he added.

"It was my last year as a designator and so I had dinner with old friends including Moggi and [Antonio] Giraudo.

"Moratti never came, but he did invite me to go to Forte dei Marmi."

The trial in Naples resumes next Tuesday.

[giallo-rossi.ie]

This shit would have to surface the very season we stand a chance of winning something. We'll probably all get points deductions and Juve will win it by default. The whole league is corrupt to the core.

[RomaShield27]

Flights are cancelled. The Derby is on. Forza forza...

[maro]

This one, I'm sure we'll all agree, really was an act of God.

[Lupa]

Roma, Claudio Ranieri and José Mourinho: romance and revenge in Italy
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog ... e-mourinho

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Sciolti gli ultimi dubbi: gioca il To-To-Vu

Domenica 18 Aprile 2010 14:04

De Rossi deve tenere d’occhio Mauri che gioca tra le due linee e che potrebbe dar fastidio alla Roma. Pressing su Ledesma da parte dei due attaccanti Toni o Totti a turno. Queste le indicazioni di Claudio Ranieri nella riunione tattica a Trigoria secondo quanto risulta a SkySport. Giocherà dall'inizio Perrotta invece che Taddei che si accomoderà in panchina accanto a Menez.

So it looks like Ranieri is going with To-To-Vu upfront, with Menez on the bench. Of course, whether it is a 4-4-2 or a more advanced 4-3-3 remains to be seen (or even 4-3-1-2?), but its likely to be the former with either Perrotta or Taddei in midfield, which depends on what formation we go with, I think. Probably Perrotta, but there is a chance Taddei may start if Ranieri wants to set us up in more straight-forward 4-4-2 in order to combats Lazio's full-backs. I hope he doesn't, and Vucinic has licence to roam forward more often and change our shape, depending on how the game is doing. If we stick to a 4-4-2 it could be a cagey affair, so we need to attack the cnuts and slaughter them.

------------ Julio Sergio
Cassetti -- Bird-- Juan -- Riise
--- Perrotta -- Pizza -- DDR ---
--------------------------- Vucinic
--------- Totti -- Toni ------------

This is going to be a tense game. Hopefully the boys will play with the confidence and belief that they have shown recently and rack up a few and make it less tense for us, but who knows. The emotions will be flying. I'm already staring at the clock in anticipation, and can't wait for kick-off. But I believe we can do it.

Various sites are doing an updated 'photo direct', with picture from inside and outside the stadium in the build up to kick-off:

http://www.forzaroma.info/news-as-roma/ ... mpono.html
http://romanews.eu/news.asp?newsID=17614&pag=2

[RomaShield27]

Where is everyone? Are we all that anxious and nervous about the game...?

[Frenchesco]

Not sure about the rest but yes I am...and until the last game i will feel that tense I believe. So much is at stake.
So it should be nice to see To-To-Vu once again. Let's hope we have a great game and the 3 points, or the 3 points only.
Off to the tv, some beers. Enjoy guys!!!

[RomaShield27]

LAZIO-ROMA: LE FORMAZIONI UFFICIALI TOTTI-TONI-VUCINIC DAL PRIMO MINUTO SCONTRI IN TRIBUNA TEVERE(GUARDA LE FOTO)
www.romanews.eu – pubblicata domenica 18 aprile 2010

LE FORMAZIONI UFFICIALI

LAZIO: Muslera; Dias, Stendardo, Radu; Lichtsteiner, Brocchi, Ledesma, Mauri, Kolarov; Floccari, Rocchi.
A disp.: Berni, Biava, Diakite, Zarate, Firmani, Baronio, Cruz.
All.: Reja

ROMA: Julio Sergio; Cassetti, Burdisso, Juan, Riise; Perrotta, Pizarro, De Rossi; Toni, Totti, Vucinic.
A disp.: Doni, Mexes, Menez, Taddei, Tonetto, Brighi, Baptista.
All.: Ranieri

ARBITRO: Tagliavento di Terni
Assistenti: Calcagno-Scaloni. Quarto uomo: Baracani

LA FOTOCRONACA
dallo Stadio Olimpico di Roma
ARIANNA BOTTICELLI

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Official line-ups, as expected. Forza Roma!

Few scuffles and stuff in the Tribuna Tevere, sure nice to add a little spice to it. Early working stream: http://www.justin.tv/taz_sport21#r=7UyoGAI~

[RomaShield27]

Lots of working streams on Justin (all in Italian) : http://it.justin.tv/directory/sports/soccer#r=7UyoGAI~

Veetle in Italian: http://www.veetle.com/view/index.html#4bbf566823ad3

Also on bet365, ATDHE etc.

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