Rome is back in a World Cup final 12 years after the final they lost to Brazil in 1994. Do you think they were happy? Of course, you would be wrong. Happy doesn’t describe it.

After watching TV coverage of a tense two hours of play in Dortmund, cries of joy rang out from apartments and cafes in Rome after Fabio Grosso and then Alessandro Del Piero scored the decisive goals to take Italy into Sunday’s Final.

Minutes after the final whistle, a stream of cars and mopeds streamed into the streets of the capital, sounding their horns in joy, while supporters waved Italy’s white, red and green flag.

The joyous reaction at the victory in Dortmund overtook the shock felt earlier in the day when the Italian Football Federation’s prosecutor called for all four clubs at the centre of a match-fixing scandal to be thrown out of Serie A.

Prosecutor Stefano Palazzi called for Juventus to drop two divisions, and be stripped of its 2005 and 2006 titles, and for AC Milan, Fiorentina and Lazio to drop one division.

Source: WCoffsite