Palermo blame ball boy for Roma defeat

godtabh · 29-01-2008 01:58PM #1

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Palermo blame ball boy for Roma defeat

MILAN, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Serie A side Palermo are looking to have Saturday's 1-0 defeat to AS Roma overturned or the match replayed due to the actions of a ball boy.

Palermo President Maurizio Zamparini told reporters the ball boy had returned the ball to Roma too quickly at a corner kick, which led to Brazilian Mancini's headed winner.

'I have dispatched my lawyers and I have asked for a 3-0 win or at least for the match to be replayed,' Zamparini said.

'We have read the rules -- the ball boys must stay behind the advertising boards and throw the ball to the nearest player. What happened on Saturday is against the rules.'

Roma are second in the league while Palermo have lost four in a row in all competitions and slipped to ninth.

The Italian game has been hit by a number of controversial refereeing decisions recently. Some clubs have said the current crop of match officials, whittled down by the 2006 match-fixing scandal, are too young and lack experience.

There have also been calls for foreign officials to be brought in but Italian referees' chief Pierluigi Collina has defended his men.

'They make mistakes but it is absurd to judge them with television,' he told Tuesday's Gazzetta dello Sport.

'In France, Spain, England they have more problems than us. Who do I call?'

What next? Juve to sue over how the wind blows?

DerekD Goldfish · 29-01-2008 03:05PM

Zamparini is an idiot of the highest order
he consistently makes an a fool of himself and the game in general
From the fact he has sacked and rehired the same manager 4 times to the "mutu is bound to cheat he is a gypsy and they are all cheats" comments and when he was going to sue a ref because of a "wrong" decision

Galvasean · 29-01-2008 06:20PM

Soon he'll be trying to sue God.

iregk · 30-01-2008 02:50PM

Ok Zamparini is his own worst enemy at times. None more so than the Mutu comment. Only this is though this has actually got a debate going in Italy.

One of the girls I work with is from Bologna and was saying it has become big news there with a lot of radio debate.

The result will stand and its mostly sour grapes but the fact it it apparently did break the rules! I've never read them so honestly I've no idea but word is there is a lot in Italian football are watching this with great curiosity.

tdv · 31-01-2008 01:28AM

Almost as funny as Alex Ferguson blaming the grey shirts.

Skud · 31-01-2008 02:18AM

Galvasean wrote: »

Soon he'll be trying to sue God.

Ah come off it, Anderson can do no wrong!

Palermo blame ball boy for Roma defeat

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