I am ashamed of my country

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Anyone who saw what just happened in Milan will know why, right now, I feel like crawling under a rock and hiding. I am beginning to think that soccer really is a major factor of national corruption; that the way in which it is organized, played, and followed, makes for continuous occasions of downright evil. Fans are allowed, almost one would say encouraged, to run riot; the game is financially bankrupt and propped up by utterly illegal government largesse, which is quickly hoovered up by greedy players backed by a nasty underworld of fixers and agents. And, as the recent Juventus scandal has proven, it is not played fairly or without drugs, either. There is no point at which Italian professional football is not utterly corrupt. It would do the country no harm at all if this snake's nest were allowed to finally slide into the well-deserved bankruptcy from which it has for so long been sheltered.