| The final verdict in an Italian match-fixing affair may be delayed until Friday or Saturday, the Corriere della Sera daily reported on Tuesday.
The report said that sports judges were looking closely into every detail of the affair centring on national champions Juventus Turin and also affecting AC Milan, Fiorentina and Lazio Rome.
Cesare Ruperto, a former president of Italy's high court, three ex magistrates and a law professor are to hand down a first-degree sentence in a match-fixing trial involving the four clubs, 10 game officials, eight members of the Italian football federation (FIGC) and eight club managers.
FIGC's interim president Guido Rossi had set July 9 as the trial's closing day, but the judges then moved it to Tuesday and now appear to have postponed it to the weekend.
Sports prosecutor Stefano Palazzi called for the relegation of Juve to the third division with a six-point penalty and for the cancellation of the Serie A titles they won in the last two seasons.
He also sought relegation to the Serie B and a 15-point penalty for Fiorentina and Lazio, and relegation with a three-point for Milan.
Referees and the other defendants face bans varying from five years to life.
The charges stem largely from telephone calls tapped by public prosecutors and trasferred to FIGC investigators. |