Juventus promoted to Serie A

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Twenty quid says they'll win it next season. Despite the obvious, Juve is the only side I've ever had a soft spot for.

Juventus win Serie B at a canter

Saturday, 19 May 2007, 16:52 GMT

Juventus bounced straight back into the top flight of Italian football following their 5-1 win at Arezzo.

The Turin club, demoted from Serie A and given a nine-point deduction last year following a match-fixing scandal, won Serie B with three games to spare.

Alessandro del Piero and Giorgio Chiellini put Juve 2-0 up, with Floro Flores pulling one back for Arezzo.

Chiellin and Del Piero both added second goals before David Trezeguet completed the scoring.

Juve boss Didier Deschamps said: "I asked the boys to end it today and not to think about the other matches.

"It brings great satisfaction and a lot of joy to everyone involved in this adventure."

Juve were originally demoted with a 30-point handicap, but that deduction was reduced to nine on appeal.

But they managed to hold on to many of their top stars and they stepped up to the plate to play a key role in the title clinching victory.

Gianluigi Buffon, rated the world's top goalkeeper, made an important double save early as Juve struggled to settle.

Del Piero eased their nerves with a superb shot across the keeper following a neat pass from Claudio Marchisio.

Chiellini punished a blunder by Arezzo keeper Nicolas Bremec to head in on 33 minutes, but Antonio Floro Flores exposed a Juve defence that will need rebuilding for the test of Serie A, by pulling one back.

Juve stepped up the pace after the interval and Chiellini finished off Del Piero's free-kick before Del Piero nodded in his second.

Another of Juve's big stars, France international Trezeguet, turned in the fifth.
 
yup gd stuff

Juv all the way -- great team -- great players

bye far the best in the league -- they will bounce back in a big way -- is what i think :D

ya better watch out cause Juv is about
 
Their demotion has probably put a few thousand extra on the gates of every club in that division. I bet there's a few chairmen who are sad to see them go up. Anyone confirm this?
 
VonClinkerhofen said:
Their demotion has probably put a few thousand extra on the gates of every club in that division. I bet there's a few chairmen who are sad to see them go up. Anyone confirm this?

Confirm if the other chairman are sad or the gate receipts ?
 
boumsong in serie a at a team like juve - surely not?

be interesting to see who they get - they still have huge appeal to italian players especially
 
IMO Match fixing is the worst crime you can commit in sport. The fact they came straight back up disgusts me.

Liverpool get banned from Europe for 10 years the rest of England for 5 because the fans have a scrap. Juve fix matches and cheat and effectively get a slap on the wrist 1 season out of their top flight.

I wasn't happy when all the punishments got reduced, and I'm less happy about the success that the cheaters have achieved this season. :mad:
 
Kronologic said:
IMO Match fixing is the worst crime you can commit in sport. The fact they came straight back up disgusts me.

Liverpool get banned from Europe for 10 years the rest of England for 5 because the fans have a scrap. Juve fix matches and cheat and effectively get a slap on the wrist 1 season out of their top flight.

I wasn't happy when all the punishments got reduced, and I'm less happy about the success that the cheaters have achieved this season. :mad:

Is that really an accurate description? 39 people died and 14 were convicted of involuntary manslaughter.
 
Kronologic said:
IMO Match fixing is the worst crime you can commit in sport. The fact they came straight back up disgusts me.

I agree with this statement. It really irks me that Milan will be playing in the Champions League Final as well on Wednesday. The Italian FA should have had the cahunas to make the original punishments stand. Who says cheats never prosper :(
 
Stoddy said:
I agree with this statement. It really irks me that Milan will be playing in the Champions League Final as well on Wednesday. The Italian FA should have had the cahunas to make the original punishments stand. Who says cheats never prosper :(

To be fair can you ever see the English FA handing out punishments to Man U, Chelsea and Arsenal if they were caught out like this.

Maybe some token fines or a 6 point deduction but i'm sure they would bottle it like they have done over the years, i'm not even going to mention the West Ham affair.
 
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