Yeah, it’s pretty gross.

I imagine you’ll get a lot of “of course he’s corrupt, they all are, and everyone knows it” responses to your posts.

But I’m glad you posted this-- there are a lot of people in Italy who would like McGinniss’s book to be entirely forgotten, and I don’t think it should be. McGinniss is an over-the-top, subjective, sometimes unreliable-seeming narrator, but it doesn’t seem reasonable to think that he just made all that stuff up.

I read the book about 20 years ago— and I was startled when it dawned on me that the slippery club president was now the head of FIGC.

Corruption accusations aside (and I find McGiniss’s account quite credible), it says a lot that the person responsible for the repulsive Robert Ponnick incident is now in charge of the Italian federation and high up in UEFA.