What a strange country Italy is! Each time a scandal comes out, after a period of indignation, protagonists and guilty has pulpits from which they can explain (of course without cross-examination) there is a plot against them or, if damning evidence is found, that everybody is guilty as they are.

It happened in politics, when a batch of corruption were discovered in early 90’s: in first two years, we had people’s demonstrations against politicians and in favour of judges. Then, after months and months of press campaigns, and false pretences against most representative public prosecutor, Di Pietro, a lot of people think that no one is to blame, because everybody is guilty.

The same happens now in football. Calciopoli big-name Luciano Moggi, after some wiretaps of his phone conversation with referees’ chiefs that brought his club to relegation, was firstly pointed out as the devil. Then, just because he still has a lot of allies among journalists, he became columnist of a newspaper (Libero) and special guest in some sport programs (local and national TV stations, and recently on radio station "Kiss-Kiss").

He always has a microphone, through which he says “what happened to me is paltry”, or “Never stole anything, neither a candy”, or accuse other clubs without any evidence, for example “Inter is the true “Mafia” of Italian football".

Some days ago, polytechnic school “G.B. Vico” in Agropoli (Salerno), invited him for a conference on sport education, and then he was supposed to make the opening of a “Juventus Club Luciano Moggi” that some nostalgic fans dedicated to him. And who is the organizer of these meetings? Sergio Vessicchio, a local journalist but also creator of some libellous websites like “Odio Collina” (I hate Collina) and “Dossier Inter”.

Sometimes, luckily, someone turns against this Italian way of thinking. This news has immediately created a dispute, and some students wrote to the board of supervisors. “We think it’s a bad thing that the school principal –who has to educate students- could invite a person that is investigated for a sport fraud and for this reason is not the appropriate person to teach” say in a dispatch. Minister Fioroni decided to order a review to local school and this pandemonium –here is the “happy end”- pushed Moggi to regret the invitation.

It happens that a team wins 13 consecutive matches breaking all records, and leads a league with 11 points advantage, and this team is Inter Milan. It also happens that main Italian bookmaker, SNAI, decides to suspend bets on Inter due to its evident superiority. Matchpoint, another bookmaker, keeps Inter quote, but it has been lowered to 1,01, meaning that if I bet 100 Euros, I win just a one euro coin.

Inter numbers are impressive: 54 points in 20 matches, best attack and best defence. Though we think that such a result should be underlined and maybe celebrated, we understand that when you are too strong and kill the competition, a lot of people might hate you. Anyway, this doesn’t justify some “whispering campaign” against Inter, lead by journalists we like to define “Moggi’s widows”. You've got to know that sport journalists are one of the categories whose image have been destroyed by Calciopoli. Last summer we could listen to wiretaps with some of main sport journalists asking Moggi and Co. what they should have written or said. Well, they are still in their place, just a couple of them were suspended by the Association of journalists for a short period. And they still are good friend of Moggi.

Last Sunday Inter won at home vs. Fiorentina. The Viola scored after 5’ with Luca Toni, and that was the only shot on goal they did in the whole match. In five minutes (19’ to 24’), two goals by Stankovic and Adriano put Inter back in control. In the second half, Inter slowed down the rhythm of the game and scored with Ibrahimovic, whose goal has been disputed by the Florentines, who stated that the ball was not completely in goal. Viola coach Prandelli and sport director Corvino after the match said none of Inter goals, especially the last one, was valid. Immediately Moggi’s widows put some poison into Inter’s win, assuming what Prandelli and Corvino said, without considering that the referee denied a couple of penalties to Inter.

In general, media like Turin newspaper Tuttosport (who is leading this campaign) and TV program Controcampo, would like to show that always the leading team has favours, and the same happened to Juventus or AC Milan during last years. And they would like also to let us know that the doubts we had in the past about Calciopoli are the same they have now. "If everybody is guity, no one is guilty", is their slogan. The problem is that they forget –or pretend to- all the stuff that came out in May 2006. A player gets a yellow card and won’t play against Inter the following weeks as he will be disqualified? Inter is doing something wrong as Juventus did, they say. But in one case we know about phone calls between Moggi and the referees chiefs, where Moggi asked to give some players a yellow or red card, now it is different.

Let’s just put an eye on some statistics of current season until now, they are self-explanatory:

Inter: 51 yellow cards, 4 red cards, penalty kicks: 3 in favour, 4 against
AS Roma: 45 yc, 1 rc, penalty kicks: 5-5
AC Milan: 37 yc, 1 rc, penalty kicks: 3-2
Palermo: 51 yc, 4 rc, penalty kicks: 5-1
Fiorentina: 47 yc, 2 rc, penalty kicks: 1-0

And here you have Ibrahimovic's 3-1 goal