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Juventus to fight sanctions in courts

By Ian Limbach

Published: August 22 2006 03:00 | Last updated: August 22 2006 03:00

Italian football club Juventus will abandon the sports justice system and take its fight to be reinstated in Italy's Serie A league to an administrative court, despite the likelihood that the move will throw the Italian football season into chaos.

Juventus was found guilty last month of match fixing by a football federation tribunal and punished with relegation to Serie B, as well as being stripped of its last two championship titles.

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