With no games this mid-week thanks to one dubious tactic (4-5-1), 2 sendings-off and 3 goals (2 bungled in, and the other a deflected Giggs free kick) in 6 Champions League matches, we focus on the media.
James Richardson’s column in The Guardian is always a good read (link). His latest column is Italians worried by lack of Totti and the impact of Totti’s injury on Italy’s World Cup ambitions and Roma’s race for the Champions League, otherwise known as “the race for 4th place”. Without their talisman,
Roma’s remaining players insist that, unlike South Korean scientists, they’re not just there to make up the numbers – and they’ll be able to call on a returning Vincenzo Montella and a renewed team spirit.
Made me spit out my morning coffee all over my wireless keyboard.
