Francesco Totti was an unused substitute for Roma’s 2-0 win against Sassuolo, but he did still manage to keep himself entertained. First, he enlisted a ball boy to help him warm up, giving the kid a story to tell for the rest of his life in the process.
Ashley Cole’s brief spell at Roma has come to an end. With Arsenal, he won two Premier League titles and three FA Cups. With Chelsea, he won one Premier League title, four FA Cups, and a Champions League title. And with Roma, he was in that one picture where he stood an awkward distance from the rest of his teammates that became a meme.
But his time in Italy was so much more than that one image. Let’s take a fond look back on the end of an era…
Francesco Totti scored his 300th career goal for Roma (and first of the new season) in their 2-2 draw against Sassuolo. To mark the occasion, Roma put together a photomosaic of Totti featuring images of all 300 goals. Have a look…
Down 1-0 to Barcelona at home in the Champions League, Roma’s Alessandro Florenzi (who you might remember from the time he celebrated a goal by hugging his grandmother) saw space between Marc-Andre ter Stegen and the goal, so he decided to let rip with a shot from a rather insane distance and angle that floated into the net to equalize in the 31st minute.
Losing the World Cup final and Copa America final by narrow margins in consecutive years will take its toll on anyone, and Lionel Messi is no different. So in a friendly between Barcelona and Roma, Messi snapped and took his pent-up aggression out on defender Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa.
The endless flood of new kits continues to rise, so we must continue to wade through them in search of higher ground…
In their penultimate Serie A fixture of the season, second-place Roma beat third-place Lazio 2-1 in a typically hateful Rome derby to clinch a place in the Champions League group stage.
Roma earned a 1-1 draw in the first leg of their Europa League round of 16 tie against Fiorentina, giving them an away goal advantage that they promptly and spectacularly pissed away at the start of the second leg.
Feyenoord supporters caused international outrage when they damaged a 17th century fountain in Rome while partying before a Europa League match last month, prompting the mayors of Rome and Florence to launch a new initiative to try and get visiting football fans to be more respectful.
