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.