Listen to the full interview via the Off The Ball Football Show podcast.
The shadow of match-fixing and betting scandals never seems to leave Italian football.
The latest arrests and house raids include ex-Italy and AC Milan midfielder Gennaro Gattuso and former Lazio player Cristian Brocchi.
The Gattuso case makes for interesting reading according to European football writer James Horncastle who joined us to delve into the latest developments:
"The case of Gattuso is the one that has grabbed the headlines. If you look at the fine print and the details about this, one of the people who was arrested last night basically texted Gattuso 13 times. Gattuso never once replied and the prosecutors want to understand what, if any, relationship he had with this guy who has been implicated. Gattuso has come out and said he has nothing to hide and that if they were to prove anything or if he has done anything wrong, he'd go to the city square and kill himself. He's made himself fully available to the prosecutor as has his former team-mate Cristian Brocchi."
While Gattuso fights to clear his name, the allegations give Italian football a perception that little has changed since the damaging Calipoli and Scommessopoli investigations into match-fixing.
"I think there is a weariness. They're tired of seeing their game blighted by scandal after scandal, particularly with the way that it is reported as a new scandal outside of Italy. It's not. It's an investigation that began three years ago and has been ongoing ever since. They're serious about pursuing it," explained Horncastle who revealed that it is not a problem confined to Italy and involves local and international betting syndicaste from Singapore.
"The big strand out of this information is that the other fixers have been caught and have been interrogated. They have said that 'you need to find this Mr X or Mr Y' who they only knew by their first name and who they only saw once. Those two people are the ones who have been brought to justice, basically arrested last night. Maybe that does bring an end to it. They were the two people the authorities wanted to identify."
