The Italian coach is to go on trial in Cremona for sporting fraud, after being accused of failing to report an alleged attempt to fix a game during his time in charge of Siena.
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Former Perugia president Luciano Gaucci once infamously claimed, "Eighty percent of the games in Italy are fixed." Rather depressingly, only the figure was questioned by the nation's disillusioned fans; nobody doubted that match-fixing was indeed widespread.
This, after all, is a nation in which Paolo Rossi had a three-year ban for his involvement in the Totonero betting scandal conveniently reduced by 12 months, thus allowing him to fire the Azzurri to World Cup glory in 1982.