Scandal now affecting Italian national team

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.

With 41 people and most of Italy’s big clubs being dragged through the mud, the press said a “morbid atmosphere” has descended over the camp ahead of the World Cup. “It is futile to deny it, the scandal is weighing heavily,” claimed Corriere della Sera.

The Gazzetta dello Sport heaped pressure on the national squad adding that it was playing the role of “a tow-boat that will pull the country as a whole from the depths of the troubled waters of the Moggi system to the crystal-clear waters of a wholesome spirit.”