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Dante Hicks · 15 Jul 2006, 17:09

I think people are overestimating the effect this will have on Juve. I suspect their reputation will keep enough players with them for a while, and it's not like their stadium / other infrastructure is going anywhere overnight.

Mathematically they could even go back up at the end of next season* (although I realise it's fairly unlikely). There may be some other restriction that I'm consdering through (I've not actually read anything about this).

* Last season Atlanta won 24, drew 9 and lost 9. If they had won 29, drew 9 and lost 4 then they'd have been in the play-offs even if they had had 30 pts deducted. Given that Chelsea won 29, drew 4 and lost 5 last season in the Premiership it doesn't seem impossible that Juventus could achieve this if the majority of their players were better than the average Serie B player.

15 Jul 2006, 17:09	#16
Dante Hicks Clerk Join Date: Jun 2001 Posts: 13,940	Re: [football] match fixing results I think people are overestimating the effect this will have on Juve. I suspect their reputation will keep enough players with them for a while, and it's not like their stadium / other infrastructure is going anywhere overnight. Mathematically they could even go back up at the end of next season* (although I realise it's fairly unlikely). There may be some other restriction that I'm consdering through (I've not actually read anything about this). * Last season Atlanta won 24, drew 9 and lost 9. If they had won 29, drew 9 and lost 4 then they'd have been in the play-offs even if they had had 30 pts deducted. Given that Chelsea won 29, drew 4 and lost 5 last season in the Premiership it doesn't seem impossible that Juventus could achieve this if the majority of their players were better than the average Serie B player.