Football Daily | Italy’s search for a manager turns into a shemozzle of epic proportions

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What’s the Italian for omnishambles? According to Google Translate, it’s disastro totale. According to most fans, it’s Azzurri. Italy are one of the OGs of world football, a team with which a young Football Daily was obsessed as it swanned around suburbia’s meanest streets in a shimmering Diadora shirt, and we still can’t believe they have become the comedy country of world football.

How refreshing to read from Gianni Infantino that those of us who fear for the furture of the game should go and chill (yesterday’s Quote of the Day). No mention in his missive of the inflated ticket prices; the difficulty of using over-priced public transport to reach some of the stadiums; nor the massive profits made by Fifa from its very own re-selling site … and that’s before we hear how much total profit Fifa made to distribute to its member nations” – John Scent.

Jermain Defoe quitting/mutually consenting/getting sacked (yesterday’s Football Daily letters). There’s such a lack of clarity over what went on. You might say it’s utter Woking nonsense (insert Sean Dyche meme)” – Derek McGee.

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