Liam Byrne replacing Hazel Blears, one of the highest-profile roles in the government outside the cabinet. However, just a fortnight later Home Secretary John Reid moved him to the immigration role, switching portfolios with Tony McNulty. McNulty had been connected with the foreign prisoners scandal that caused Tony Blair to sack Charles Clarke in May 2006. Byrne's move was seen as an attempt by Reid to establish an entirely new team to sort out the immigration system. During this period he was also Minister for the West Midlands. Gordon Brown named him Minister for the Cabinet Office in October 2008, replacing the
2006 Italian football scandal recorded telephone conversations published in Italian newspapers suggested that, during the 2004–05 season, Juventus general managers Luciano Moggi and Antonio Giraudo had conversations with several officials of Italian football to influence referee appointments. The name "Calciopoli" (which could be translated as "Footballville" or "Footballgate", analogous to the Watergate scandal) is an ironic adaptation of "Tangentopoli" ("Bribesville" or "Bribesgate"), which is the name that was given to some corruption-based clientelism in Italy during the "Mani pulite" investigation in the early 1990s. On 4 July 2006, the Italian Football Federation's prosecutor Stefano Palazzi called for all four clubs at the centre of