"The Ref Is a Commie!": Silvio Berlusconi Finds Yet Another Fifth Column

Silvio Berlusconi is a rich man who owns a number of things.  One of these things is the AC Milan soccer team.  A couple of weeks ago AC Milan played its second game of the 2010-2011 season away at Cesena, a team that has just moved up to Italian soccer's Big Show and has so far done surprisingly well.  They beat the visitors 2-0.  Berlusconi knew why:

Berlusconi bizarrely blamed the Cesena defeat on a “left-wing referee” (La Repubblica helpfully spoke to locals in match official Carmine Russo’s hometown and discovered he’s actually more of a Popolo della Libertà voter, the right-wing coalition of which Berlusconi’s Forza Italia party is a prominent member)[.]

Such superficial discrepancies cannot distract the prime minister from the deeper truth.  Further proof of an expansive footy fifth column: the crowd at the Cesena stadium expressed in song its desire to see Berlusconi in jail, and the ref did nothing.

One final note: It's not too late to exchange the Christmas gift for that special paranoid soccer club owner in your life from the t-shirt that says "The ref's a fucking wanker" to the one that says "The ref's a fucking commie."