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@Sinn Fein

Looks like Tottenham are gonna beat Liverpool to Ryan Sessegnon, highly rated FB for Fulham.  Makes sense, he lives in London and Poch is the FB whisperer...

 
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If we're being entirely honest here, then I think we can all admit that the other thread serves no real purpose since there are basically games on 365 days a year.  :grad:

 
NewlyRetired said:
They have started a GoFundMe page to try and get enough funds to travel to Chicago for the next game to play against the local PDL team.

If they raise enough funds and win the game in Chicago, they get to play DC United in the following game at home.  Pretty cool for a pub team.
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Christos FC won again!  They beat Chicago FC 1-0 and now the pub team gets all the way to play an MLS team in DC United.

So cool :)

 
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Jaysus said:
CRAPASS!  My super-long holiday weekend schedule caused me to miss the MEGA-double MLS fantasy game week.  The MLS schedule is ridiculous. 
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explain this to me like I'm in that MLS fantasy league and don't know wtf you're talking about. because, yeah. that's it.

 
El Floppo said:
explain this to me like I'm in that MLS fantasy league and don't know wtf you're talking about. because, yeah. that's it.
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Something like 12 teams have 2 games this week, the deadline for lineup changes was yesterday. I forgot to change my llne up so it was stocked with guys who would play twice. 

 
Jaysus said:
Something like 12 teams have 2 games this week, the deadline for lineup changes was yesterday. I forgot to change my llne up so it was stocked with guys who would play twice. 
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I forgot as well.  mine looks even worse because I think I left in some players who are away on international duty.

 
NewlyRetired said:
Jaysus said:
Something like 12 teams have 2 games this week, the deadline for lineup changes was yesterday. I forgot to change my llne up so it was stocked with guys who would play twice. 
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I forgot as well.  mine looks even worse because I think I left in some players who are away on international duty.
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gracias.

I kinda forgot all about this. but in third, so suck it losers. especially aaabatteries.

 
I just noticed this was one of the US Open Cup bonuses:

*$: Winner of $15,000 bonus for advancing the furthest in the competition from their respective divisions.

So I think the pub team should pick up this bonus as I think they are the only amateur team to make it this far.  New uniforms for the boys next year I bet :)  

 
I think I posted this last year - was at the USASA Amateur Cup final four last year where Christos FC beat a local club several of my friends' kids play for (Bavarians) in the final. Christos FC went down a man early in the game, but forced overtime and then scored twice in the second overtime period.

https://youtu.be/ecvfHooM0-Y

 
for gb @Kafka  from the NYTimes a couple days ago. (edit- ithe article has some great pics... including kafka in the middle here)


ROME — The first half of Francesco Totti’s last ever game in an A.S. Roma soccer jersey ended, and the fans at the Roma Club spilled onto the street in a sour mood.

“It’s a sad day,” said Luigi Carinci, 65, who had sat in the front row in Testaccio, the neighborhood that is the club’s spiritual home, and dabbed his eyes whenever the screen showed Totti stretching his legs or sipping water on the bench. “Rome is a mess. The bus never comes, they don’t pick up the garbage and the cops do nothing. Now Totti’s leaving. It’s the last thing we need.”

Totti’s final game on Sunday, after a quarter century with Roma that has made him the most celebrated and beloved player in the club’s history, was a kick in the stomach to a city already knocked to the ground and then rolled into a pothole filled with trash.

The past decade or so has not been kind to Rome. Garbage piles up in the piazzas. The parks look like littered Iowa cornfields. The city’s sputtering economy hemorrhages jobs, and the mayor’s name has become a national byword for urban disaster.



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Photo



 

Totti was lifted by teammates on Sunday after his last match with A.S. Roma. He joined Roma’s first team in 1993, when he was 16. CreditVincenzo Pinto/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images


But at least it had Totti.

The Golden Child. The Phenomenon. The Captain. The Legend. The greatest player who ever wore the Roma jersey, and one who grew up not far from the Colosseum, as a die-hard fan. He refused to leave Rome — the team or the city — no matter how much money bigger clubs threw at him. Fans, including some supporters of the rival Roman club, Lazio, called him “the symbol of Rome,” “the emblem of Rome,” “Rome.”
“Rome is a city of symbols, the pope, the Colosseum. And Totti is part of this,” said Maurizio Crosetti, a sportswriter for La Repubblica, who considered Totti essential for beleaguered Romans who struggled to tell a good story about themselves. “He was something not to be ashamed of.”

And so Romans, both fans and citizens, took his departure especially hard.

“Today it’s hard to live in Rome,” said Giulio Lucarelli, whose Core de Roma restaurant, on Totti’s childhood street, is essentially a shrine to the “yellow and red,” as the Roma team is often called because of its colors. “The image of Rome has yellowed from the vivid yellow and red of the glory days.”

Totti’s career spanned more than 25 years. He first caught the notice of soccer aficionados at age 12 as a junior player on Roma’s youth teams. He broke into the first team in 1993 at age 16, dazzling the city with his skill and imagination.
Photo



 

Totti jerseys could be seen all over Rome on the afternoon of the game. CreditNadia Shira Cohen for The New York Times


He wore his Romanness on his tongue, with an accent and a homespun vocabulary that outsiders mocked but that Romans loved. He embraced his role as an ambassador for the city’s ordinary people in television ads and Totti joke books.

And then, in 2001, he visited a miracle upon the city. With Rome already spick and span after preparations for the Roman Catholic Church’s Jubilee year celebrations in 2000, Totti led his club to a long elusive national championship.

The city basically lost its collective mind.

Totti, disguised in a bandanna and red and yellow face paint, went with Mr. Lucarelli to parties in Testaccio and at the Circus Maximus, where a million people showed up and a famous actress, in attendance at Totti’s last game, performed a strip tease.

“Rome was a more joyous city. There was enthusiasm, fun. Now it is darker, melancholy,” said Alessandro Vocalelli, the editor of Corriere dello Sport. “Now that Totti stops playing, many people will feel a little older, suddenly grown up.”
Photo



 

“It’s a sad day,” said Luigi Carinci, 65, center, who watched the game on Sunday in Testaccio, the spiritual home of A.S. Roma. CreditNadia Shira Cohen for The New York Times


Aged 40 and weathered, with a famous showgirl wife and three children, Totti had found his role diminished this season: He was usually playing as a substitute. The team’s management had decided his time had come.

The holder of so many records wasn’t happy about it, and he made sure, with a sour Facebook post, that everyone knew he was being forced out. Mostly, however, he handled the situation with grace and humility. The papers speculated that he might move to another club in the United States or Asia, but never in Italy.

“We’d kill him,” said Lorenzo Ciliberti, 23, who wore a No. 10 Totti jersey as he stood in a circle drinking beers in Piazza Vittorio, now overrun with homeless men and vagabonds, some of whom used its palm trees as toilets.

Crimson Totti jerseys were everywhere on the afternoon of the game, as fans sidestepped pizza crusts and broken beer bottles to make pilgrimages to a 2001-vintage mural of the player pointing to the sky. They marched across the Circus Maximus, now only partly mowed, like a half shaven face.
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Fans holding Totti’s jersey number at the Olympic Stadium in Rome on Sunday.CreditAlessandra Tarantino/Associated Press


As game time approached, Sergio Rosi, 80, opened the gates of the Roma Club in Testaccio. The walls were covered in pictures of the club and of Totti through the ages. Here he was raising trophies, posing for the national team, getting married.

“We Romans are all in mourning,” Mr. Rosi said, pausing to yell “Forza Roma!” (“Let’s go, Roma!”) at the people yelling “Forza Roma!” to him. The state of the city, he said, had made the loss that much more bitter. “For two months they didn’t clean this street,” he said. “The filthy animals!”

The game started, with Totti on the bench. Roma, in the hunt for the second-place slot, gave up an early goal to lowly Genoa. The screen showed Totti’s anguished face. Mr. Carinci dabbed his eyes in the front row.

The second half started and — to some surprise, and applause — Totti entered not long after the break. Roma soon scored a go-ahead goal and Mr. Rosi rose to blast a deafening siren and pump his fists.
Photo



 

A.S. Roma supporters were in tears as Totti bid farewell. CreditRiccardo Antimiani/European Pressphoto Agency



The club members then waved disgustedly at the screen and Totti shook his head on the field after Genoa tied the match at 2-2. Then Roma scored the winning goal. With only minutes left, Totti kept control of the ball, eating up the clock by kicking the ball off the shins of his opponents and out of bounds.

“He’s a maestro at this,” the television commentator said.

After the game, Totti took a victory lap around the stadium accompanied by his wife and children, including his son, Cristian, 11, who many hope might carry his father’s torch.

As the theme from “Gladiator” gave way to Elton John’s “Circle of Life,” Totti started weeping. Bawling. So did the members of the Roma Club, old and young, men and women. They sang the chorus of the team song — “Roma Roma Roma” — and wept. They held their children and wept. They screamed “mortacci loro” and wept. One man, wearing a “There’s Only One Captain” shirt, wrote his son at the stadium and asked for an update.

“Weeping,” his son’s reply read.

As Totti read out a letter (“It’s not easy to switch off the light. Now I am afraid.”) the faces of thousands of fans contorted with tearful anguish. In the club, Mr. Rosi started pouring white wine with an A.S. Roma label. “I feel awful, awful,” he said, from behind a small plaque that referred to Totti as the “King of Rome.” “Now we will realize it. That he is gone.”

But not just yet. A couple of hours later, Totti and his family arrived at La Villetta, a favorite restaurant. There was a barrage of kisses from loved ones, several of whom said they had spent the game in tears.

As homeless men made their beds on the sidewalk in front of Totti’s old haunt, a handful of fans in No. 10 jerseys peered through the windows. Like them, Totti still wore shorts, but he had traded in his jersey for a red polo shirt.

 
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El Floppo said:
for gb @Kafka  from the NYTimes a couple days ago. (edit- ithe article has some great pics... including kafka in the middle here)


ROME — The first half of Francesco Totti’s last ever game in an A.S. Roma soccer jersey ended, and the fans at the Roma Club spilled onto the street in a sour mood.

“It’s a sad day,” said Luigi Carinci, 65, who had sat in the front row in Testaccio, the neighborhood that is the club’s spiritual home, and dabbed his eyes whenever the screen showed Totti stretching his legs or sipping water on the bench. “Rome is a mess. The bus never comes, they don’t pick up the garbage and the cops do nothing. Now Totti’s leaving. It’s the last thing we need.”

Totti’s final game on Sunday, after a quarter century with Roma that has made him the most celebrated and beloved player in the club’s history, was a kick in the stomach to a city already knocked to the ground and then rolled into a pothole filled with trash.

The past decade or so has not been kind to Rome. Garbage piles up in the piazzas. The parks look like littered Iowa cornfields. The city’s sputtering economy hemorrhages jobs, and the mayor’s name has become a national byword for urban disaster.



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Photo



 

Totti was lifted by teammates on Sunday after his last match with A.S. Roma. He joined Roma’s first team in 1993, when he was 16. CreditVincenzo Pinto/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images


But at least it had Totti.

The Golden Child. The Phenomenon. The Captain. The Legend. The greatest player who ever wore the Roma jersey, and one who grew up not far from the Colosseum, as a die-hard fan. He refused to leave Rome — the team or the city — no matter how much money bigger clubs threw at him. Fans, including some supporters of the rival Roman club, Lazio, called him “the symbol of Rome,” “the emblem of Rome,” “Rome.”
“Rome is a city of symbols, the pope, the Colosseum. And Totti is part of this,” said Maurizio Crosetti, a sportswriter for La Repubblica, who considered Totti essential for beleaguered Romans who struggled to tell a good story about themselves. “He was something not to be ashamed of.”

And so Romans, both fans and citizens, took his departure especially hard.

“Today it’s hard to live in Rome,” said Giulio Lucarelli, whose Core de Roma restaurant, on Totti’s childhood street, is essentially a shrine to the “yellow and red,” as the Roma team is often called because of its colors. “The image of Rome has yellowed from the vivid yellow and red of the glory days.”

Totti’s career spanned more than 25 years. He first caught the notice of soccer aficionados at age 12 as a junior player on Roma’s youth teams. He broke into the first team in 1993 at age 16, dazzling the city with his skill and imagination.
Photo



 

Totti jerseys could be seen all over Rome on the afternoon of the game. CreditNadia Shira Cohen for The New York Times


He wore his Romanness on his tongue, with an accent and a homespun vocabulary that outsiders mocked but that Romans loved. He embraced his role as an ambassador for the city’s ordinary people in television ads and Totti joke books.

And then, in 2001, he visited a miracle upon the city. With Rome already spick and span after preparations for the Roman Catholic Church’s Jubilee year celebrations in 2000, Totti led his club to a long elusive national championship.

The city basically lost its collective mind.

Totti, disguised in a bandanna and red and yellow face paint, went with Mr. Lucarelli to parties in Testaccio and at the Circus Maximus, where a million people showed up and a famous actress, in attendance at Totti’s last game, performed a strip tease.

“Rome was a more joyous city. There was enthusiasm, fun. Now it is darker, melancholy,” said Alessandro Vocalelli, the editor of Corriere dello Sport. “Now that Totti stops playing, many people will feel a little older, suddenly grown up.”
Photo



 

“It’s a sad day,” said Luigi Carinci, 65, center, who watched the game on Sunday in Testaccio, the spiritual home of A.S. Roma. CreditNadia Shira Cohen for The New York Times


Aged 40 and weathered, with a famous showgirl wife and three children, Totti had found his role diminished this season: He was usually playing as a substitute. The team’s management had decided his time had come.

The holder of so many records wasn’t happy about it, and he made sure, with a sour Facebook post, that everyone knew he was being forced out. Mostly, however, he handled the situation with grace and humility. The papers speculated that he might move to another club in the United States or Asia, but never in Italy.

“We’d kill him,” said Lorenzo Ciliberti, 23, who wore a No. 10 Totti jersey as he stood in a circle drinking beers in Piazza Vittorio, now overrun with homeless men and vagabonds, some of whom used its palm trees as toilets.

Crimson Totti jerseys were everywhere on the afternoon of the game, as fans sidestepped pizza crusts and broken beer bottles to make pilgrimages to a 2001-vintage mural of the player pointing to the sky. They marched across the Circus Maximus, now only partly mowed, like a half shaven face.
Photo



 

Fans holding Totti’s jersey number at the Olympic Stadium in Rome on Sunday.CreditAlessandra Tarantino/Associated Press


As game time approached, Sergio Rosi, 80, opened the gates of the Roma Club in Testaccio. The walls were covered in pictures of the club and of Totti through the ages. Here he was raising trophies, posing for the national team, getting married.

“We Romans are all in mourning,” Mr. Rosi said, pausing to yell “Forza Roma!” (“Let’s go, Roma!”) at the people yelling “Forza Roma!” to him. The state of the city, he said, had made the loss that much more bitter. “For two months they didn’t clean this street,” he said. “The filthy animals!”

The game started, with Totti on the bench. Roma, in the hunt for the second-place slot, gave up an early goal to lowly Genoa. The screen showed Totti’s anguished face. Mr. Carinci dabbed his eyes in the front row.

The second half started and — to some surprise, and applause — Totti entered not long after the break. Roma soon scored a go-ahead goal and Mr. Rosi rose to blast a deafening siren and pump his fists.
Photo



 

A.S. Roma supporters were in tears as Totti bid farewell. CreditRiccardo Antimiani/European Pressphoto Agency



The club members then waved disgustedly at the screen and Totti shook his head on the field after Genoa tied the match at 2-2. Then Roma scored the winning goal. With only minutes left, Totti kept control of the ball, eating up the clock by kicking the ball off the shins of his opponents and out of bounds.

“He’s a maestro at this,” the television commentator said.

After the game, Totti took a victory lap around the stadium accompanied by his wife and children, including his son, Cristian, 11, who many hope might carry his father’s torch.

As the theme from “Gladiator” gave way to Elton John’s “Circle of Life,” Totti started weeping. Bawling. So did the members of the Roma Club, old and young, men and women. They sang the chorus of the team song — “Roma Roma Roma” — and wept. They held their children and wept. They screamed “mortacci loro” and wept. One man, wearing a “There’s Only One Captain” shirt, wrote his son at the stadium and asked for an update.

“Weeping,” his son’s reply read.

As Totti read out a letter (“It’s not easy to switch off the light. Now I am afraid.”) the faces of thousands of fans contorted with tearful anguish. In the club, Mr. Rosi started pouring white wine with an A.S. Roma label. “I feel awful, awful,” he said, from behind a small plaque that referred to Totti as the “King of Rome.” “Now we will realize it. That he is gone.”

But not just yet. A couple of hours later, Totti and his family arrived at La Villetta, a favorite restaurant. There was a barrage of kisses from loved ones, several of whom said they had spent the game in tears.

As homeless men made their beds on the sidewalk in front of Totti’s old haunt, a handful of fans in No. 10 jerseys peered through the windows. Like them, Totti still wore shorts, but he had traded in his jersey for a red polo shirt.
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Fake news!   my tattoos aren't nearly that straight...

Seriously though...Grazie for that, gb; it's much appreciated.

 
Dinsy Ejotuz said:
@Kafka what can you tell me about M Salah?  At first glance looks like a Sadio Mane type maybe?  Splashy signing if rumors of 43MM are true.
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He's basically everything you want in a modern winger: tremendous pace & anticipation, with a wonderful left foot.  He's not selfish, always tracking back, although he tends to often pass when he should shoot, and vice versa.  The glaring weakness is his horrendous right foot...ya know that Irish movie "My Left Foot"?  Well, yeah...basically that.

eta: I absolutely adore him (& his game)

 
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Best League in the World:

Sunderland's £93.5m for finishing LAST in the Premier League is more than Juventus, Bayern or Monaco get for WINNING Serie A, BL, Ligue 1.

 
El Floppo said:
for gb @Kafka  from the NYTimes a couple days ago. (edit- ithe article has some great pics... including kafka in the middle here)


ROME — The first half of Francesco Totti’s last ever game in an A.S. Roma soccer jersey ended, and the fans at the Roma Club spilled onto the street in a sour mood.

“It’s a sad day,” said Luigi Carinci, 65, who had sat in the front row in Testaccio, the neighborhood that is the club’s spiritual home, and dabbed his eyes whenever the screen showed Totti stretching his legs or sipping water on the bench. “Rome is a mess. The bus never comes, they don’t pick up the garbage and the cops do nothing. Now Totti’s leaving. It’s the last thing we need.”

Totti’s final game on Sunday, after a quarter century with Roma that has made him the most celebrated and beloved player in the club’s history, was a kick in the stomach to a city already knocked to the ground and then rolled into a pothole filled with trash.

The past decade or so has not been kind to Rome. Garbage piles up in the piazzas. The parks look like littered Iowa cornfields. The city’s sputtering economy hemorrhages jobs, and the mayor’s name has become a national byword for urban disaster.



  •  





Photo



 

Totti was lifted by teammates on Sunday after his last match with A.S. Roma. He joined Roma’s first team in 1993, when he was 16. CreditVincenzo Pinto/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images


But at least it had Totti.

The Golden Child. The Phenomenon. The Captain. The Legend. The greatest player who ever wore the Roma jersey, and one who grew up not far from the Colosseum, as a die-hard fan. He refused to leave Rome — the team or the city — no matter how much money bigger clubs threw at him. Fans, including some supporters of the rival Roman club, Lazio, called him “the symbol of Rome,” “the emblem of Rome,” “Rome.”
“Rome is a city of symbols, the pope, the Colosseum. And Totti is part of this,” said Maurizio Crosetti, a sportswriter for La Repubblica, who considered Totti essential for beleaguered Romans who struggled to tell a good story about themselves. “He was something not to be ashamed of.”

And so Romans, both fans and citizens, took his departure especially hard.

“Today it’s hard to live in Rome,” said Giulio Lucarelli, whose Core de Roma restaurant, on Totti’s childhood street, is essentially a shrine to the “yellow and red,” as the Roma team is often called because of its colors. “The image of Rome has yellowed from the vivid yellow and red of the glory days.”

Totti’s career spanned more than 25 years. He first caught the notice of soccer aficionados at age 12 as a junior player on Roma’s youth teams. He broke into the first team in 1993 at age 16, dazzling the city with his skill and imagination.
Photo



 

Totti jerseys could be seen all over Rome on the afternoon of the game. CreditNadia Shira Cohen for The New York Times


He wore his Romanness on his tongue, with an accent and a homespun vocabulary that outsiders mocked but that Romans loved. He embraced his role as an ambassador for the city’s ordinary people in television ads and Totti joke books.

And then, in 2001, he visited a miracle upon the city. With Rome already spick and span after preparations for the Roman Catholic Church’s Jubilee year celebrations in 2000, Totti led his club to a long elusive national championship.

The city basically lost its collective mind.

Totti, disguised in a bandanna and red and yellow face paint, went with Mr. Lucarelli to parties in Testaccio and at the Circus Maximus, where a million people showed up and a famous actress, in attendance at Totti’s last game, performed a strip tease.

“Rome was a more joyous city. There was enthusiasm, fun. Now it is darker, melancholy,” said Alessandro Vocalelli, the editor of Corriere dello Sport. “Now that Totti stops playing, many people will feel a little older, suddenly grown up.”
Photo



 

“It’s a sad day,” said Luigi Carinci, 65, center, who watched the game on Sunday in Testaccio, the spiritual home of A.S. Roma. CreditNadia Shira Cohen for The New York Times


Aged 40 and weathered, with a famous showgirl wife and three children, Totti had found his role diminished this season: He was usually playing as a substitute. The team’s management had decided his time had come.

The holder of so many records wasn’t happy about it, and he made sure, with a sour Facebook post, that everyone knew he was being forced out. Mostly, however, he handled the situation with grace and humility. The papers speculated that he might move to another club in the United States or Asia, but never in Italy.

“We’d kill him,” said Lorenzo Ciliberti, 23, who wore a No. 10 Totti jersey as he stood in a circle drinking beers in Piazza Vittorio, now overrun with homeless men and vagabonds, some of whom used its palm trees as toilets.

Crimson Totti jerseys were everywhere on the afternoon of the game, as fans sidestepped pizza crusts and broken beer bottles to make pilgrimages to a 2001-vintage mural of the player pointing to the sky. They marched across the Circus Maximus, now only partly mowed, like a half shaven face.
Photo



 

Fans holding Totti’s jersey number at the Olympic Stadium in Rome on Sunday.CreditAlessandra Tarantino/Associated Press


As game time approached, Sergio Rosi, 80, opened the gates of the Roma Club in Testaccio. The walls were covered in pictures of the club and of Totti through the ages. Here he was raising trophies, posing for the national team, getting married.

“We Romans are all in mourning,” Mr. Rosi said, pausing to yell “Forza Roma!” (“Let’s go, Roma!”) at the people yelling “Forza Roma!” to him. The state of the city, he said, had made the loss that much more bitter. “For two months they didn’t clean this street,” he said. “The filthy animals!”

The game started, with Totti on the bench. Roma, in the hunt for the second-place slot, gave up an early goal to lowly Genoa. The screen showed Totti’s anguished face. Mr. Carinci dabbed his eyes in the front row.

The second half started and — to some surprise, and applause — Totti entered not long after the break. Roma soon scored a go-ahead goal and Mr. Rosi rose to blast a deafening siren and pump his fists.
Photo



 

A.S. Roma supporters were in tears as Totti bid farewell. CreditRiccardo Antimiani/European Pressphoto Agency



The club members then waved disgustedly at the screen and Totti shook his head on the field after Genoa tied the match at 2-2. Then Roma scored the winning goal. With only minutes left, Totti kept control of the ball, eating up the clock by kicking the ball off the shins of his opponents and out of bounds.

“He’s a maestro at this,” the television commentator said.

After the game, Totti took a victory lap around the stadium accompanied by his wife and children, including his son, Cristian, 11, who many hope might carry his father’s torch.

As the theme from “Gladiator” gave way to Elton John’s “Circle of Life,” Totti started weeping. Bawling. So did the members of the Roma Club, old and young, men and women. They sang the chorus of the team song — “Roma Roma Roma” — and wept. They held their children and wept. They screamed “mortacci loro” and wept. One man, wearing a “There’s Only One Captain” shirt, wrote his son at the stadium and asked for an update.

“Weeping,” his son’s reply read.

As Totti read out a letter (“It’s not easy to switch off the light. Now I am afraid.”) the faces of thousands of fans contorted with tearful anguish. In the club, Mr. Rosi started pouring white wine with an A.S. Roma label. “I feel awful, awful,” he said, from behind a small plaque that referred to Totti as the “King of Rome.” “Now we will realize it. That he is gone.”

But not just yet. A couple of hours later, Totti and his family arrived at La Villetta, a favorite restaurant. There was a barrage of kisses from loved ones, several of whom said they had spent the game in tears.

As homeless men made their beds on the sidewalk in front of Totti’s old haunt, a handful of fans in No. 10 jerseys peered through the windows. Like them, Totti still wore shorts, but he had traded in his jersey for a red polo shirt.
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I just like quoting long posts. 

 
Sinn Fein said:
https://twitter.com/iMFootballNews/status/869614776674025473

Which reddit tells me says:

  • 1st team: relegated from the 2. Bundesliga
  • U21: forced relegation from the Bayernliga (4th) tier due to the 1st teams relegation
  • U19: relegated from the youth Bundesliga
  • U17: relegated from the youth Bundesliga
  • U16: forced relegation from the youth Bundesliga due to the U17s relegation
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Seems like things have gone from bad to worse for 1860 - looks like the 1st team has been dropped all the way to the 4th division (where their U21 squad finished 2nd last season) due to some financing issues. 

 
What's the point of FFP?  Reportedly, AS Roma may need to sell Salah to pass FFP?  That seems ridiculous to me.  Why are they forced to sell one of their own stars who helped them attain CL but a team like Man City can literally spend anything they want?

I just don't get it.

 
shader said:
What's the point of FFP?  Reportedly, AS Roma may need to sell Salah to pass FFP?  That seems ridiculous to me.  Why are they forced to sell one of their own stars who helped them attain CL but a team like Man City can literally spend anything they want?

I just don't get it.
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I am not going to pretend I understand the rule completely, since there seems to be some inconsistencies, but the rule is revenue based I believe.

As such, Man City obviously draws in a significantly bigger level of revenue than Roma does, (the TV money alone make the gap ENORMOUS), so Man City is allowed to spend significantly more than a Roma can.

 
I have two questions for Chelsea fans:

1) Are there any rules on how many players teams in the EPL are allowed to keep on the books and then loan out or can Chelsea do this as much as they want?

2) I am assuming the contract these players sign (like say Miazga) are for significantly higher salary terms than the team they loan the player to is willing to pay.  Does Chelsea as the loaning club absorb some/most of the salary these players are owed and the team they are loaned to picks up the rest?

 
Sinn Fein said:
Best League in the World:

Sunderland's £93.5m for finishing LAST in the Premier League is more than Juventus, Bayern or Monaco get for WINNING Serie A, BL, Ligue 1.
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I hope Sunderland use that money wisely.  Something tells me it will be dropping soon.

 
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