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Crisis, what crisis?

RORY SMITH, of the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, on how Italian football is going on the attack

RAVAGED by corruption, poisoned by cynicism, polluted by violence and brought to a standstill by greed. There was a time in the barely distant past when Italian football was glamour distilled, a game of cat-and-mouse tactics, blanket defences punctured by long-haired, ingenious attackers.
Serie A was noise and colour and glory. Now it is dying. Its condition is chronic. Italian football has long been the sick man of Europe.
Cristian Chivu disagrees. Vehemently. As he always does. The Romanian ...

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