Congrats to Inter-Milan!

It seems that the Italian league, Serie A, is all wrapped up. This years winner is Inter-Milan, the blue-and-black powerhouse that has really benefitted from the referee paying (also ex-chelsea striker Hernan Crespo) scandal last year. With the top two teams, Juventus being sent down to Serie B (the equivalent of AAA baseball except that in European soccer the teams can move up and down between the leagues – the top three from the lower league come up and the bottom three of the upper league go down) and AC Milan (still in Champions League) getting a point reduction, along with two other top class teams, Inter was left standing with the cash on hand to buy some of Juventus and AC’s stars. But AC, with the help of Ronaldo (that’s a joke – he’s fat now) have still shown that they are top class. Here’s the story on the win from ESPN’s soccernet:

Marco Materazzi scored twice, once from the penalty spot, as Inter Milan won 2-1
at Siena to clinch their second successive Serie A title with five games to
spare.