I’ll be working from home today: meet the Italian referee with a sideline in drug running
From mafia match-fixing to Gianluca Scammaca’s terrifying family, the walls between crime and football in Italy are surprisingly porous.
But even in that murky swamp, referee Rosario D’Onofrio stands out. The bloke is bent as a nine bob note.
By day, D‘Onners is a widely respected blazer in the national referees’ association. But he’s been living a secret life as a crime boss, smuggling tonnes of marijuana across borders and threatening to torture his enemies.
Hilariously, he was convicted and placed under house arrest last year without his bosses at the referee association realising. They even gave him a promotion.
The benefits of working from home…
