ITALIAN SERIE C TEAM PRESIDENT INVESTIGATED

Italian media are reporting that police have arrested the president of the third-division club Potenza and eight other people on charges of sports fraud, illegal betting or links with organised crime. Police and fans alike are in total shock, as this sort of thing has never happened in Italy before.

Investigators are reportedly examining a game in the Italian second-division from the 2007-08 season and seven matches in the third division for any evidence of corruption. As well as heading a thorough search for ex Coach Enzo Bianchi, who went missing after the 3-0 home defeat to Cremonese, feared whacked.

Up to 20 people are being investigated under the operation, led by Potenza anti-Mafia prosecutor Francesco Basentini.

Giuseppe Postiglione became the youngest club leader in Italy when he was named president of Potenza in 2006 at the age of 24, having just been 'made' by Mafia Boss Don Estelle, very well known in Cosa Nostra circles as ' The Inch High Don'.