Devoted die hard italian, I've never seen italy play as bad as they did this tournament, and in a sense they did not really deserve to advance, however, Italy playing at its worst is still better than many teams (excluding the obvious dominant teams). If anyone here read the italian newspapers, the articles and interviews with sweden and denmark had fix written all over it, and the way they overly celebrated together after that "surprise" ending was disgraceful. You can say what you will about our italian conspiracy theories, especially going back to the last world cup, but no one mentions the fact that 5 months after that match, the same ref that the italians accused of calling the match against them was banned from soccer for life for fixing matches in south america. As beautiful as this sport is, the politics and money surrounding it tarnishes it beyond belief.

Putting a positive to these disgraceful happenings, at least Trap is gone, and hopefully we won't see anymore useless long balls that do not take advantage of the talented azurri squad