I have said most of the things I had to say allready, but I will reply to the element of Your post dealing with the 4 times Lazio and Juve has played eachother.
If we had all the referees on our side why did they end the way they did?
I suppose we can all agree that the 4 games were tight and evenly balanced as a whole.
In the league: At Olympico it was a quite boring game without many cleancut chances. Lazio had the most posession while Juventus had the best opportunities late in the game (Kovacevic' volley for instance). There was only one whiff of controvercy in that one, and that was a Lazio appeal for a Iuliano handball. I think most of the people who saw the match agreed afterwards that he DID infact handle the ball, but that he had no way of avoiding it, and that it was one of those involuntary actions the ref. shouldn't penalize. Anyway a draw was certainly the fair outcome of that one.
At Delle Alpi Lazio stunned us with Simeone's header. Much talk went on about Lazio deserving that win or not. One certain thing is that Juve played too well to loose. A draw was fair I guess, but the way everybody but Lazio fans saw that match You got 3 points Juventus deserved. On the referee thing the only issues were Inzaghi's penalty appeal (Mihailovic), Ferrara's obstruction taking the air out of Nedved, Ferrara's sending off, and the fact that Juve fans thought Almeyda should have been sent off as well.
Pippo's penalty was so and so. They've been called for less, but I couldn't say that it was a terrible mistake that it wasn't called, because the contact was only a minor one. Mihailovic DID catch Pippo's leg and not the ball however. Ferrara deserved to get a booking for his obstruction- he didn't. Later on he was justfully ejected, eventhough some people feel that Simone Inzaghi made the most of it. Tough job- Ferrara made an ass of himself and had to go. I think Almeyda should have been sent off too, but we couldn't seem to score on Ballotta anyway, so what's the point.
In coppa Italia we absolutely slaughtered You at Delle Alpi in the first half- going up 3-0. You got back in the game on a blatant referee mistake gifting You a penalty which Ravanelli converted. I You don't remember the incident Montero was judged to have handballed, while replays clearly show that the ball hid him square on the chest. The match ended 3-2 Juve.
At olympico you certainly played the better and deserved your late winning header.
You got through on away goals, and the only one who got helped here was Lazio with the Del Alpi penalty. It was hard to spot, and none of us Juventini has given you a hard time because of that.
So apart from the "strange" fact that we weren't helped to get results against You (had this been as blatant as you claim, I suppose Pippo would have gotten his penalty at Delle Alpi ?) I think it's fair to say that our 4 games against eachother has been very tight, and that nothing separates us from that.
I can't deny that You have 2 wins against our 1, but apart from that I think You must admit, that Juventus are not unworthy champion because of that. It could just as well have been us winning 2 and throwing youout of the cup, but on the days in question You had that little bit of gamewinning luck we didn't. That's all fine and well, and even before the season started I rated Lazio and Juve as very equal in quality. Judged only from our 4 head to head meetings, I find it hard to believe that anyone can disagree on that.
You don't think Juve deserves to be champions (if that is going to happen) ?
Can we be accepted in 2. place then, or should Milan or Roma get there because of the many goals they've scored ? Maybe Parma as a concellation because of the beautifull football they occasionally play and the ammount of injuries they've had ?
What determines the word "deserved" ?
Ciao.
