NFR If you think things are bad at the Cottage try being a Pro Piacenza fan

[Neil D]

After unpaid debts and wages and the first team on strike, the third tier Italian club was forced to field just six youth team players and the masseur to avoid automatic expulsion from the League.  I always thought the minimum requirement was eight players.  Anyway, the good news is that an eighth player joined them in the second  half and they tightened up defensively, only conceding a further four goals...to add to the sixteen first half ones.