not detract barcelona from pursuing the uruguayan for 75m spanish rivals real madrid swooped in on james rodriguez 63m whose cause was aided by his brilliant performances in the fifa world cupuniteds downfall the postalex ferguson era was a nightmare for manchester united who failed to qualify for a place in europe for the first time since 1982 david moyes who had received the backing of his predecessor failed to get the best out of the players at his new club and was eventually sacked with four games to play in the seasonserie a picks the wrong one italian football federation chose carlo tavecchio over demetrio albertini as president the former winning 63 per cent of the votes tavecchio is a career politician with five criminal convictions ranging from forgery to tax evasion no wonder italian football is languishing where it is now and no sign of languishing where it is now and no sign of improvement is noticeable juventus strong show notwithstandingmario at it again mario balotelli shot himself in the foot once again he posted an image of video game character super mario on a social networking site that included a message which read be like mario he is an italian plumber created by japanese people who speaks english and looks like a mexican he jumps like a black man and grabs coins like a jew he apologized of courseracism at its peak atalanta fans threw bananas at ac milan fullback kevin constant this incident was widely regarded by many as one of the worst moments in italian football during the 20132014 seasontito loses the battle exbarcelona manager tito vilanova lost his battle against cancer at 45 he had earlier fought off a malignant tumour in 2011 but was unable to fight it this time under him barcelona it this time under him barcelona had equalled real madrids record of points in a season when they finished with an amazing 100lets have italian luis suarez is no stranger to controversy having bitten his opponents on a football field twice before the uruguayan finally thought it fit to sink his teeth on the world cup stage and he chose italian defender giorgio chiellini as his victim after initial denial he finally admitted his guilt fifa later banned him from all footballing activities for four months and suspended him for nine international matches including world cup fixturestext saumyajit basu sreemoy talukdar ishan chowdhury follow toi sports on twitter toisportsnews