ITALY Prime Minister Mario Monti last night sensationally claimed football in the country should be suspended for two or three years.
A second match-fixing scandal in the last six years is currently gripping Italy, with the latest stage of a probe carried out by Cremona prosecutors on Monday resulting in the arrests of 19 people, among them Lazio captain Stefano Mauri.
That brings the total number of arrests to around 50 since last year.
And many more have been placed under investigation, including Italy international Domenico Criscito, who was considered a certainty to make the Azzurri’s Euro 2012 squad until his room at their training camp was raided on Monday. He has now been dropped.Monti said: “We must reflect and evaluate if it would not be useful to have a total suspension of the game for two to three years.
“This is not a government proposal but it is something that I, who have been for many years a football fan, feel inside me.“It is particularly sad when a world such as sport, which should be an expression of high values, proves to appear a concentration of the most reprehensible aspects such as disloyalty, illegality and falseness.”
Monday’s arrests are part of an investigation called Last Bet, which focuses on 33 games over the past two seasons, the majority of which were in Serie B.
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