NAUGHTY SOCCER BOYS IN ITALY DESERVED CASTOR-OIL TREATMENT
SATISFIED that a number of players in the beaten team were bribed to “work a schlenter,” the Itafian Soccer Federation has deprived the Turin F.C. of the championship of Italy, suspended a number of officials for life, and fined the club 10,000 liras. That seems drastic enough, but if Mussolini had been on the job, he would have given these naughty little boys a couple of tablespoons of castor oil each. Perhaps the Turinites are rather pleased that the Duce isn’t the Football Association.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 293, 2 March 1928, Page 11
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92NAUGHTY SOCCER BOYS IN ITALY DESERVED CASTOR-OIL TREATMENT Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 293, 2 March 1928, Page 11
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