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Then, in February this year, the Confederation fut 15 coins of African Football (CAF) awarded the African Cup of Nations final between Egypt and Ivory Coast to the controversial 43-year-old Tunisian Mourad Daami, a man banned for a year in 2000 for trying to influence the decision of another referee at the 2000 African Champions' League final.

Even that seemingly scrupulous man in black, Italian icon Pierluigi Collina, was forced into early retirement, his endorsement deal with General Motors causing a conflict of interest with top Italian club AC Milan, whose owner, ex-Italian president Silvio Berlusconi, was first out of the blocks last week to claim the Serie A title Juventus could lose if found guilty by the official investigation.

Add to that the summary sacking of Norwegian assistant referee Ole Hermann Borgan after being photographed wearing a Barcelona shirt ahead of the Catalan club's Champions' League final last week, and the withdrawal of World Cup accreditation from Italian whistler Massimo  www.proutcoins.com  De Santis in a move understood to be connected to the mounting Juventus scandal, and FIFA has shown its officials a yellow card.