E DAJE ROMA! Roma-Lazio 1-0

E daaaaaaaaaaaaaaai! Grande Rome! I hope we are now finally back on track. If we hadnt won would have been second from bottom..although we are only 4th from bottom now... vabbe... we just now need to follow it with a winat Lecce this weekend.

The match started with 5 minutes of silence for Gabrielle....initiated by the Sud as it is a year since his death. The laziali started chanting 'andate in B' and had a huge B made of red and yellow balloons in the Nord: So Rude!

We obviously responded with 'undici anni in B'! Unfortunately the Derby is no longer what it used to be, with large sections of Monte Mario empty, no banners and only a few flares. Big back the old days!!!!

The first half was boring and we didn't play that well. Totti still isn't at his best ma il capitano e' sempre il capitano so they say. Vucinic didnt impress...again. Brighi was once again one of the best on the pitch and should always start. The match was quite even until Baptista managed to score. Then followed the longest every 45 minutes. As usual with Roma nothing is ever easy. Lazio have a player sent off and then nearly score (just like Napoli did against us) and missed the usual 100 chances to score and close the match. Menez had only the keeper to beat and hit it straight at him. We need to stop passing the ball and shoot the bloody thing! I was screaing so match I hardly had any voice left! We then obviously had Perrotta sent off in true Roma style but luckily managed to win!

De Rossi went mad! It means so much to him! He is the Vero Capitano!

MAGICA!!! Roma-Chelsea 3-1!!!!!!!!

GRAAAAAAAAAAAANDEEEEEEEEEEEE ROMA! I hardly have a voice left after all the screaming and shouting last night! AMAZING! Unfortunately we were only just 30,000 at the stadium. Terrible showing for a match like this but we definitely were the 12th man (although there was a section of the Curva still singing Tifiamo solo la Maglia). The Curva really got behind them when they came on for the warm up and the players in turn clapped us and from then on the support was amazing. I spent the first half complaining about my friend Vucinic and then had to put up with my friends winding me up about it for the rest of the night. Unbelievable is all I can say. Don't know how we did it. It was as if we were another team. Brighi is under rated and should always play. Cicinho ran like a mad man for the entire match and even Vucinic managed to play well. The defence is another story without Riise. Great to see the team come under the curva at the end and Danielino's face...he is the real Captiano. He is crazy! We just have to keep it up against Bologna on Saturday and against Lazio. Time to start winning in the league now.

VENESI AS ROMA

VENDESI AS ROMA, RIVOLGERSI A ROSELLA SENSI. IN OMAGGIO SPALLETTI".

Bello! (AS Roma For Sale. Spalletti included for free. Contact Rosella Sensi.

Just hope that they do sell as she is destroying Roma. Cosi we will go into Serie B. It’s embarrassing. We are now 4th from the bottom. I’m lost for words. They only time we don’t lose is when we don’t play!

Udinese-Roma 3-1 It gets even worse......

La Roma quest'anno fa schifo! What has gone wrong??? After a good performance against Chelsea mid-week what happened to the team. There is no enthusiasm. No grinta. Loria is complete waste of space. He is bad that he went off at half time and De Rossi played in defence! Insane. Vucinic only woke up for a while and I hardly noticed any of the other players... Udinese were awarded a penalty for a foul outside the area and we were only awarded 1 of 3 that we should have been given. To make matters worse Vucinic got a yellow card for falling over in the box when he was brought down, and he now misses the match against Samp on Wednesday. I'm sure we won't notice his absence but that's not the point. Rosella Sensi has announces that the team will be in ritiro straight away to show onore alla maglia e rispetto per i tifosi.... i'd rather she bought some decent players or sold the club to some one that will invest in it. It's time the Sensi went. The fans have turned and you could hear the usual 'solo la maglia' and 'andate a lavorare' chants and I have to say I agree. Today was absolutely pathetic.

Roma-Inter 0-4 Non ho parole

I just don’t know what has happened to la Roma….. So I’ll start on a positive note: Juve, in the years of Trap, after 7 games had 7 points, like us, and went on to win the title....so you never know! Now back to reality. With Juve having the same problems as us things aren’t as bad as they could be. I doubt Napoli, Udinese and Catania can keep up the pace but I think we will, however, be fighting for 4th place max. The new players still need to integrate and learn the language but I still don’t understand why we didn’t buy a striker...Can someone please explain that to me?!!! Crespo wasn’t in the list of convocati on Sunday and rumour is that was because he will join Roma in January. Ex-Laziale….I’ll take anyone at this point if they are capable of scoring some goals!

Vucinic and Aquilani manage to play like a dream in the Internationals and then like idiots in the campionato. Totti played well which is the only good thing to come out of last night. The rest of the team (except De Rossi) disappointed. Doni’s form had disappeared and I can now remember why I used to hate him so much. The defence doesn’t exist. Loria and Riise are useless. Cicinho again put in a terrible performance and was to blame for 2 of the goals. Perrotta was no where to be seen. The Curva Sud were the real winners.....they really got behind the team at the end and the singing got louder and louder (Che sarà, sarà, ovunque ti seguirem, ovunque ti sosterrem). I hope they don’t turn against the team just yet. They gave grief to those that decided to get up and leave at 4-0.

Fingers crossed for Wednesday.........................I think we need a miracle against Chelsea. Can we pleeeeeease pull off a draw!

Hospitals in Rome

Last week I had to visit the podiatrist at the hospital for the first time since living here. What an experience! It seems one hospital is as bad as the next here. Luckily I wasn’t going in for anything serious….I don’t think I’d even want to have a plaster stuck on my finger in a hospital here!

The paint was peeling off the walls, the walls were covering in writing, the place was dirty and there were minimal furnishings. When I walked into the office it stunk of smoke….someone had obviously been smoking away before I got there.

I hope I never have to go back to a hospital again in this country.

Roma-Atalanta 2-0

Roma played in front of an almost empty stadium again, with the lowest ticket sales in years. We had to manage without Totti, De Rossi, Baptista, Juan, Cassetti, Tonnetto and Pizarro. Will we very play our fist 11?! We played quite well in the first half, and just as me and my friends said Panucci should be our striker he scored! He is capocanoniere for Roma so far this season, which is insane for a defender. As for my friend Vucinic who should be scoring lots of goals for us… well he finally scored his first goal of the season.....why we keep him I don’t know... Menez went off to applause again and even Riise got a huge cheer after his shot on goal never the end of the match. Cicihno played well again and it was great to see Mexes back in the centre of our defence. Spalletti will have a tough time deciding what to when Juan is back to full fitness. How can he leave Panucci, our main goal scorer on the bench. “Vogliamo undici Panucci” (we want 11 Panucci’s) sang the Curva Sud. He gives everything, he’s a really fighter and shouldn’t be on the bench. Brighi is also impressing this year, since being given chance to start the last few games due to all the injuries.

Tomorrow we have Bordeux fuori casa – a must win match. We still have an injury crisis and they are now saying that it is the pitch at Trigoria that is causing so many injuries. With so many injuries occurring in training this could be right.

Totti etc wont be back until Roma-Inter (Cassetti even later) in a few weeks time. Baptista will be on the bench tomorrow and Juan possibly for Siena on Sunday but if they play they will have to answer their call up for the National team, which Roma don't want, so they might not play. De Rossi will be back for the match tomorrow night and we have no choice but to win... I’m worried!