IT was 8pm when Judge Teresa Casoria finally delivered the verdict to a Naples courtroom crammed with reporters, TV crews, lawyers and policemen.

Roberto Mancini is not tempted by a return to Italy and insists his future is at Manchester City.

FIRST the feast, now the reckoning.

AN event without precedent in world football begins today, when the Olympic Stadium in Rome is turned into a court of justice.

Italian referee Pierluigi Collina looks set to end his career in the summer and take a desk job.