Vatican buys soccer team, morality in mind

by ppeggy | October 4, 2007 at 07:14 am
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Italian soccer will never be the same.  Players will be punished for foul play;  fans will be forbidden from insulting the opposition;  ticket profits will go to third world projects. 

[q Edoardo Menichelli, the archbishop of Ancona, said the move would help bring more morality into soccer.
"We want to bring some ethics back into the game, which has been undergoing a grave crisis in terms of sportsmanship," he said.[/q]

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