SM79Sparviero
Airman
And the real money here is in the TV rights that are around the football. Curiously the two teams who have dominated the Italian scene in the last 10 years and are in the scandal now (Milan and Juventus) always had a perfectly common view on how to manage that rights, and recently they both sold their exclusive rights to Mediaset (the group of Mr Berlusconi who, btw, is also owner of Milan)
I think the judges are willing to look inside this agreements and money flow.
Mr Berlusconi and his own Mediaset group are now happy:
-Mr Galliani, a puppeteer on the same level as Mr Moggi but a little smarter will be banned for 1 year only instead of being radiated as a duty, if we take in consideration his double role as Milan manager and federal president.
-Milan ( and others)can buy the best ,devalued players in particular Buffon for a very discounted price.
-The sentence has note banned Milan from european competitions( Milan penalization isn't so heavy to forbid to play UEFA cup)
-Mediaset TV will pay less money to Juventus:their agreement has a clause for wich the reward will be reduced if the team is penalized to II division for technical/disciplinar reasons
Italian Football Federation is happy:the flow of money from Mediaset TV (NDR for the non Italian friends = Berlusconi) will not be stopped neither dramatically reduced, as it could happen with Milan in II division
The Referee association,really one of the last feudal systems in XXI century, is happy for their public prestige has been saved: the key of the enquiry was the contact between Juventus managers and some referees, but none of the latter has been given a really heavy penalty from the federal court: the "privilege" to punish them has been left to their own "family".