No Party

October 24th, 2009 | By: Kamran | Add Comments

Fungus Cake

The update on injury is neither hopeful nor disastrous. Surgery won’t be required, yet, but there’s also no update on when this “therapy” is going to enable him to hit back. In fact, there’s no vague timeline either. He might be back against Livorno — which, to be honest, will be nothing but bad karma for him. Or he might take another month to walk back onto the field. At which point, he is in all probability going to score 5 goals in 3 games, assist 3 others, make the papers a few bucks by providing fuel to La Nazionale return stories and then collapse again for a month.

Whatever anyone says — or whatever his club form says for that matter — he can not play any more games than he does for the club. He couldn’t do so in the Golden Boot form, having him do it in 09 will simply be asking too much from a 33 year old. At least for the Azzurri, Party’s over:

No Totti, No Party
August 28th, 2009

Video: First 5 games of the season

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Here’s a short compilation made up of Francesco’s highlights of the season so far:


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July 11th, 2009

Summer Recap

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Summer Recap Ladies and gentlemen, the definition of epic fail: “From Totti too. That’s my opinion. Shoo! He is ruining you! He is ruining you! Just like Real Madrid need to do with Raul, Roma need to get rid of Totti. Is that clear?” — Nicola Irti Obviously the guy [...]


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April 23rd, 2009

Cementing the legend status in Calcio history

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Gabriel Batistuta, Roberto Baggio, Gunner Nordahl, ring any bells? Yes, these are some of the most prolific strikers in history of Serie A. And then there is this guy, who, despite playing as a trequartista for most of his career, has broken into the list of those legends. Welcome to Francesco Totti: Serie A [...]</p>
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April 7th, 2009

Comeback #1976

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Totti PK If he had been absent from yesterday’s Bologna equation, the 4th spot would already have been a good-bye, it’s as simple as that. Highlights can be found on Chris’ post-match writeup, along with the golden words: “There is simply no greater difference maker in all of [...]


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April 4th, 2009

The Catch-22

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Totti Injury The same old: If he plays, there’s a whopping 5% chance he’ll go through the match uninjured; if he doesn’t there’s an equally colossal probability for Roma snatching the three points. Mirko’s out for the game, with Baptista and Menez capable of converting chances almost as [...]


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March 15th, 2009

Giving Marcello the shivers

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Roma PSO Exit “Seeing how [David] Pizarro and [Francesco] Totti were limping at the end gave me goosebumps. They played with heart and courage for a wonderful romantic game in which everyone gave their all.” — Marcello Lippi The dream of playing a Champions League final in his own [...]


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December 10th, 2008

Beating the blues

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Totti vs Bordeaux Oh, and yes they have done that directly too. But this time, they also raced ahead of Chelsea in Group A standings. Here’s a rundown for viewpoint of the masses after European fixtures so far: Match-day 1 (Roma 1-2 Cluj): LOL, Chelsea are going to annihilate [...]


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November 30th, 2008

The Totti Effect

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Roma’s form: D*WW*W*W*
[*] Denotes matches with Jesus on the score-sheet. It isn’t just co-incidence. Surely, the men of the match against Fiorentina included Doni, Mexes and Juan too. But this has been evident over the entire past decade: Totti takes Roma to a whole another level, period. [...]


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November 23rd, 2008

Back to spoon-feeding the keepers

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“Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.” — E. M. Forster There are few sights in the world more joyful than seeing Er Pupone exploit goalie’s decision-making abilities with a Cucchiaio. Sure, Amantino did it last season too, with a [...]


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