Channel 4 also covered some Italian international matches live, including Italy's 1998 World Cup qualifying playoffs against Russia, which finished 2–1 on aggregate. A light-hearted trailer for the matches, with the voiceover "Will the Russians rub their faces in it?" while showing an Italian fan's face being rubbed in a plate of pasta, led to questions in the Italian parliament and caused 12 complaints (not upheld) to the ITC. Richardson said, "Everywhere Channel Four was being labelled as anti-Italian. In the end we re-enacted a spoof version where Pierluigi Casiraghi shoved my face in a plate of spaghetti."