UEFA are now confident that Celtic and their supporters will get the go-ahead to travel to Milan for next month’s Champions League crunch match. The Scottish champions are due to face AC Milan at the San Siro stadium on March 7, a fixture which at one stage looked set to be moved out of Italy.

The economic value of football in Italy industry will be in the minds of politicians and sports administrators when they meet on Monday to discuss long-term measures to curb fan violence at Italian soccer games.

Italian players’ association president Sergio Campana wants the suspension of football in the country to last for up to a year to allow for a proper solution to the problems of violence to be found.

Italy’s fashion industry today signed a code of conduct aimed at fighting anorexia among women and the vogue for stick-thin models.

THE scandal threatening to bring Italian football to its knees is now starting to affect the national team’s World Cup preparations, according to the Italian press.