limey

The Italian soccer assoc. are contemplating whether they should launch an official complaint to UEFA to investigate whether the Sweden-Denmark game was rigged so that they would both go through and eliminate Italy.
Here are my thoughts on this;

1. The Italians must take the responsibility of the fact that they played below par the whole tournement allowing their destiny to be put down to another final game.
2. You only have to had seen the Sweden vs Denmark game to know that it was a hard fought game and that the final score was the outcome of this alone.
3. Sure the Sweden and Denamrk players killed the game at the end but that was for the final 30 SECONDS. This was not a conspiracy it was just common sense knowing that the result as it stood would take them both through.
4. The Italians did this same tactic for 7 MINUTES 2 years ago during their World Cup match between them and Mexico - was this a conspiracy too?? No - it's just common sense that you play like that at that stage of the game.

I love the Italians but this a rather pathectic atempt on their behalf to shift the blame. They had another performance all round.
They have only won 3 games out of the last 10 games played against European teams and the teams that they beat were of a low class.
Ciao Trapattoni.