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No Blasphemy please, we're Italian
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04-03-2010 8:48pm#1Strange story from Italy where blasphemy is now a red card offence
Not sure how they will enforce it. I mean you could raise your hands to the heavens Kaka style saying "Jesus Christ" in a reverential manner or if Inzagi misses a sitter he could spit out the same in a spiteful way. I guess they'll have some sort of panel who will judge on a case by case basis
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/02/italy-football-coach-god-blasphemyDomenico "Mimmo" Di Carlo could not be said to have emblazoned his name on the annals of Italian football – until, that is, last Sunday in the third minute of the second half of Chievo's 2-1 victory over Cagliari in Serie A.
It was at this moment, according to the disciplinary watchdog of the Italian football league, that the Verona club's coach "proffered a blasphemous expression" that was to make him the first victim of a zero-tolerance policy on irreverence.
Di Carlo, whose side narrowly avoided relegation last season, was banned from the touchline for a game after Sunday's outburst. The Italian federation, Federcalcio, decided last month that the time had come for disciplinary action to be taken against players and coaches heard taking God's name in vain.
The president, Giancarlo Abete, declared it would "intervene with official decisions to make clear that blasphemy is within the definition of 'offensive, insulting or abusive language' in the rules [that warrant sending-off]".
Chievo's coach was not the only one caught out; one of his players, Michele Marcolini, was deemed to have said "God" as he left the field after a red card. After scrutiny of TV footage, however, the league judge, Gianpaolo Tosel, was convinced Marcolini had deployed "a slang expression used in Lombardy and [the region around Venice] with a crude reference to 'Diaz' and not 'Dio'" – although no one on the pitch was called Diaz.0
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In fairness, in A&A we've a whole thread devoted to itdreamers75 wrote: »its the LAW in ireland now
No jebus bashing....mohammad and jewish whatever is fine tho just not catholic bashing god blasphemies. Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test
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