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Italian Official Under Fire For Allegedly Calling Female Footballers ‘A Bunch of Lesbians’ Marcus Christenson 16 May 2015 An Italian football official is under pressure to resign after allegedly referring to female players as a “bunch of lesbians”. Felice Belloli, the president of the county’s amateur football association, allegedly made the comments when discussing funding for women’s football in the country. The Italian Football Association (FIGC) opened an investigation on Friday after it was sent the minutes of the meeting of the Lega Nazionale Dilettanti (LND). Belloli allegedly said: “That’s enough, we can’t always talk about giving money to this...

JASON Akermanis is furious after his car and Western suburbs house were bombed with eggs during the early hours of Sunday morning. He said it was terrifying to have missiles thrown in the darkness at his house and car. "I'm not happy and I didn't get a wink of sleep after it happened," Akermanis said. "It was pretty terrifying, to be honest, to hear all that noise coming because it's such a quiet neighbourhood we live in." It's the second time in a month the Western Bulldogs footballer has been egged. Akermanis, whose comments in the Herald Sun on homosexual...