Italian game not in the clear yet

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

Embossed on the wall behind her, in letters two feet tall, was the slogan: “The Law Is Equal For All”.

A dramatic day in Italian politics had reached its climax just 10 minutes earlier with the announcement Silvio Berlusconi could no longer hang on to office, but the verdict everyone in Naples was awaiting concerned Italian football.