Post by QPR Report on Sept 27, 2009 5:56:51 GMT
Two Years Ago: September 27, 2007
Daily Mail - Juv got a new fan at QPR
Disgraced football official Antonio Giraudo was spotted alongside Queens Park Rangers chairman Gianni Paladini in the directors' box during the 1-1 draw with Watford.
The former Juventus chief executive has been a regular visitor to Loftus Road this season and was at one stage linked with Flavio Briatore's takeover consortium. He was not, however, named on Briatore's list of new directors due to take control after his £14million deal is finalised.
Giraudo is serving a five-year ban from football in Italy following the Serie A match-fixing scandal.
Last year, he told prosecutors: "All kinds of things go on in football. People give Rolexes to referees, people fix the accounts. What I'm saying is that this is an environment in which you have to protect yourself." Daily Mail
And then additional Giraudo/QPR stories
qprreport.blogspot.com/2007/09/ex-juventus-antonio-giraudo-at-loftus.html