It could hardly have come at a worse time. The most recent scandal to hit Italian football, involving the country’s most successful and arguably best-known club, Juventus, came right in the middle of the Qatar World Cup.
Bad enough that Italian fans were suffering the pain and ignominy of watching a second consecutive World Cup that steamed ahead without them; That was traumatic enough. What seemed bitterly ironic was that at the very moment the rest of the world was enjoying the biggest football show on Earth