The Totti Effect

November 30th, 2008 | By: Kamran | 2 Comments

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. Whether you dislike either or both, you just can’t argue with that at least.

So I guess it’s finally the time to start rating his performances. Tonight would deserve nothing less than 8. An effort on the bar, visionary passing, and goal from a thunderous shot against one of the best stoppers on the planet. He is back. In previous 5 outings (of all competitions), he has found the net 4 times. The new diamond formation is also extracting his genius from the treq role, and if other strikers can keep killing off his assists a la Lecce too, that’s bad news for rest of the Calcio.

Tags: Fiorentina, Totti

November 23rd, 2008

Back to spoon-feeding the keepers

By: Kamran |

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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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September 21st, 2008

What goes around, comes around (read as: pseudo Deja Vu)

By: Kamran |

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Alberto’s dummy assist, Francesco’s freekick leaving a tap-in, Panucci scoring the opener and Super Mirko not scoring despite being orgasmic. Rings any bells? All of that happened previous year too against the very same team, Reggina. Except for the fact that Roma wasn’t in a crisis heading [...]

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August 29th, 2008

The Ankle and the Miss-hape

By: Kamran |

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Let me state the obvious: Terry’s miss in Moscow was infinitely more tormenting for him than Jesus’ one for him. This was Supercoppa. And while every Romanista would have been thoroughly pleased with another one, very few would be aggravated at Totti for his penalty. No. What mattered [...]

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August 16th, 2008

Return of the King

By: Kamran |

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Replacing Stefano Okaka Chuka, the Captain was back and … he ran (for those of us who weren’t losing our sleeps only because we had his pics of running on Trigoria stairs, this is huge). He also threaded a long first-touch cross to the wing (typical Totti [...]

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August 14th, 2008

Kicking Off

By: Kamran |

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Actually, I was pretty surprised at being given the chance to author this blog. Roma’s Offside blog is currently the most popular one on this portal, and there are legions of active and passionate commentators in there. And so, the fact that there still isn’t a Totti-specific [...]

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