Di Michele Suspended: Don’t Bet on Torino

(See that headline right there? That’s early morning, exhausted humor. I’ll try to control myself from here on out.)

The football league handed down punishments to its small crew of gamblers yesterday, and as the only current Serie A player of the four who received suspensions, David Di Michele is getting the majority of the attention (despite the fact that his suspension is shortest). In addition to being fined €20,000, Di Michele will miss the first three months of the season, returning at the end of October when, hopefully, his team won’t yet be resting at the foot of the table. From the way Di Michele is talking, it doesn’t sound like there’s going to be an appeal, so Torino will need to get used to life without him for a while.

According to the Toro website, they’ve got five non-Di Michele strikers on their roster, only one of whom is younger than 27 (that’s Dominique Malonga, who’s only 18 and has never played a game at a level higher than Monaco’s youth team) and none of whom scored more than seven goals last year. Um, oh dear. I’m no club president or anything, but it looks to me like Torino — who barely missed the drop last season — might need to be doing some buying right quick. (And when I say “buying,” I mean buying strikers, not referees. The latter is for the other side of Turin.)

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