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Italian football is 'losing credibility' and there will be long-term implications of further football-related violence.

Lazio fan Gabriele Sandri was accidentally shot by a policeman at a motorway service station near Arezzo on Sunday which prompted violence on the terraces at the game between Atalanta and AC Milan.

An angry mob of fans also stormed the CONI (Italian Olympic Committee) headquarters in Rome later that evening.

The incidents follows a recent chequered history for football in the country which was rocked by the death of policeman Filippo Raciti during rioting nine months ago as well as a match-fixing scandal.

The games in Serie B and C will be suspended for this weekend, sparking further questions and speculations over the league's future.

Will this be a start to the decline in Italian soccer? Watch and see.