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Ref trolls Cassano: 'I'm getting old, but you're getting worse...'
Only this time, he found an opponent who was more than up to the challenge: referee Nicola Rizzoli, whom the suspended Cassano encountered in the tunnels at half-time. Always smiling, the striker was pulling the referee's leg a little, likely remonstrating about a couple of calls that hadn't gone his team's way.
Completely unperturbed, a grinning Rizzoli responded to Fantantonio by telling him that "I may be getting old, but you're getting worse!".
A refreshing interlude in Cassano's long and comparatively troubled series of encounters with the referees.
It was a good job for Rizzoli and his team that they got the call right on Sampdoria's winner, Lorenzo De Silvestri's touch clearly aiding the ball over Federico Marchetti's line.
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