Back to its A-Game

Italian soccer should be reaping rich rewards form their unexpected, but lorious success at last year's World Cup.

Serie A, however, finds itself engaged in a fierce battle to rid itself of the scars left by a match- fixing scandal that shook the foundations of world soccer. The once mighty Lady of Turin – Juventus – fell, relegated to Serie B and stripped of two league championships that were deemed to have been won corruptly.

In that time of woe, the likes of AC Milan, Lazio and Fiorentina were also found guilty of improper conduct in the scandal and were penalised with points deductions but escaped the fate that befell the Lady.

Now, with Juve back in the top flight after winning the second league Serie B, and this in spite of a points deduction of their own, Serie A is expected to return to some semblance of normality and, in some ways, this has been the case as the season enters its second quarter. The “big guns” appear on track to dominate the league as so many expected them to do.

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