Tevez affair - Scott Duxbury

[BornOnShorehamStreet]

Anybody ever seen these two geezers in the same room together?

 

[Kenilworth]

Anybody ever seen these two geezers in the same room together?

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No but one does look a lot bigger than the other. Maybe that's how you tell them apart so easily.

 

[blade too long]

right,seeing as no Italian speakers have translated it for me & armed with 'O'- level Latin and an adventurous nature....I'm going to hazard a guess at....

" in July 1986, Pozzo (Watford owner's Dad and his predecessor at Vicarage Road) took over Udinese from Lamberto Mazza. The club found itself in great difficulty: and in a scandal, the upshot of which was that on the 28th they were going to get demoted to serie B but in the end were allowed to stay in Serie A with a penalty of 9 points at the start of the next season.?????? " - I can't imagine how they were allowed to stay up, but I dare say Scott Duxbury can.





The next season (having finished 3rd. in serie A), Udinese returned to serie B, after the World Cup of 1990, there occurred the "Mysterious case of Udinese", their punishment 4 points - because of a 'phone call Pozzo made to the Lazio president, Gianmarco Calleri. Pozzo strenuously defended his actions but he was stopped from doing s o m e t h i n g for 5 years" - allegedly.

just found the English wiki page........

Udinese Calcio
Pozzo bought Udinese Calcio in July 1986, but after a betting scandal, the team was demoted to the second-tier Serie B. The club then suffered a nine-point deduction in the Serie A championship of 1986–87 season after winning promotion, ultimately leading to another relegation despite the acquisition of several prominent players, including Francesco Graziani, Fulvio Collovati and Daniel Bertoni.

In 1990, a phone call between Pozzo and the president of S.S. Lazio just before a match was alleged to be conclusive proof of match-fixing efforts. Despite a robust defence, Pozzo was banned from holding authority at Udinese, though he remained the club's owner.

(I wasn't far off was I?)


So all in all, its a case of the Football League, quite rightly deeming the Pozzos fit and proper people to own Watford, I used to think Massimo Cellino must have somehow slipped through that net, but now I am impressed at the care the Football League puts into 'sifting the wheat from the chaff' as 'twere.

The main difference being the italian inquiry team that gave a 9 point deduction 3 per reguarly used player , had not been wined and dined by Sir Trevor,

 

[vorpal blade]

if you say it quickly it sounds like

" fit improper person "

perhaps that's what the Football League think the criterion is.

 

[CarlMcBlade]

We had plenty of chances to stay up that season.. . . .But we fucked it up.

 

[Blade for Sale]

We had plenty of chances to stay up that season.. . . .But we fucked it up.

We were also right royally fucked over with terrible, and crucial decisions v Liverpool, West Ham and Man Utd. The Tevez affair was disgustingly skewed towards WHUFC and everyone knows it. We could have made a better fist of it I know, especially in the away games, but to say it was a level playing field is incorrect.