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Lazio and Fiorentina reinstated

SOCCER SCANDAL While Lazio and Fiorentina were let back into in the top division, Juventus remains stuck in Serie B after the appeals in the Italian match-fixing case

AFP , ROME

"A little sting," headlined sports daily Gazzetta dello Sport.

"Reductions in sentences for everybody. The biggest beneficiary on an exhausting day was AC Milan, given a chance to reach the Champions League," it said.

The clubs had been been pleading their cases for more lenient sentences since Saturday.

The match-fixing scandal broke in May after transcripts of former Juventus general manager Luciano Moggi telling the head of Italy's referees association which officials to appoint to specific Juve games were published in Italian papers.

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