Forlì appealed to CONI against the decisions of the Sports Judge and the Federal Sports Court of Appeal on the so-called Cecotti case. The Romagna club asks the CONI Board of Guarantee to suspend the playoffs starting on Sunday 12th until the dispute is resolved or, secondarily, a hearing between the parties by Sunday “in order to be able to adopt, in any case promptly, a collective precautionary measure to protect the parties involved in the present proceedings”. Carpi, as calm as possible given the precedents and results issued by the field, will have ten days as well as the Lnd and the FIGC to present their defense briefs, after which a further 10 days will start to convene the actual hearing. Assuming that the CONI court decides to reject Forlì’s request for suspension and does not decree any stop to the playoffs: if they were to be played on Sunday, at that point any appeal would lose any further effectiveness (and applicability).
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At the center of the Romagna club’s complaints is always the approval of the Carpi-Forlì match, which ended 2-1 on the pitch but which according to Forlì should be transformed into a 0-3 by default due to the irregular use by Carpi by Tommaso Cecotti. Who served a one-day ban in the return match against Pistoiese, a match whose result was later annulled by the sports judge due to the exclusion of the Tuscans from the championship. For Forlì, Cecotti would therefore never have served that one-day disqualification, which according to the Romagna club he should have done in the match immediately following the official statement with which the sports judge ruled on the exclusion of Pistoiese: i.e. Carpi-Forlì.
Now the Forlì club is asking to freeze the playoffs, invoking a potential rewriting of the ranking by virtue of a possible 0-3 draw which would send Ravenna to Serie C with 66 points, Carpi in second place with 65 (68-3), Forlì (today fifth and excluded from the playoffs) third at 58 (55+3), Corticella fourth (57) and Victor San Marino fifth (57).
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Everything will depend on the possible acceptance of the suspension of the playoffs by the Coni Board: if this were the case, everything could really dramatically come back into play. Otherwise, if, as Carpi hopes, the game were to be played on Sunday, all discussions would be definitively closed.
