Gennaro Gattuso's 10-man Milan, already languishing down in seventh, were thrashed 3-0 at lowly Hellas Verona.

It may have been one of the murkier days in the history of Italian football but there were at least some winners emerging from the wreckage of the Serie A match-fixing scandal.

AC Milan on have announced the signing of striker Alberto Gilardino from Parma on a five-year deal.

Parma have made an appeal to Europe’s top football governing body after their goalkeeper Luca Bucci was hit by a firework during Thursday’s UEFA Cup semi-final second-leg at CSKA Moscow.