The Totti Effect

Roma's form: D*WW*W*W* [*] Denotes matches with Jesus on the score-sheet. It isn't just co-incidence. Surely, the men of the match against Fiorentina included Doni, Mexes and ...

Il Danieleista 6.0

So I can confirm: They are back The new system is proving a sucess, Er Pupone is back and Matteo Brighi has cemented his place in the ...

Back to spoon-feeding the keepers

"Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon." -- E. M. Forster There are few sights in the world ...

Video of the Week: Scherzi a Parte (Italian Candid Camera)

In Italy the show Scherzi a Parte is like Candid Camera (or Punk'd), and plays practical jokes on various Italian celebrities and films it so ...

Il Danielista 4.0

GRANDE ROMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA Sorry I've been gone so long but Il Danielista is back with a bang! I was both looking forwards to and dreading this game. Whereas ...

Roma pilgrimage

The original idea for this post was that I would go to Rome and find out what De Rossi means to Rome. I was all set, ...

Its Italy & De Rossi talks Roma

I have to say I never watched the recent Italy game vs. Bulgaria. My internet hasn’t been working so I didn’t get to see it, ...

VotD: The Savior.

At least according to TGIP. I tend to agree.

Il Danielista 2

When i heard Daniele wasn't fully fit and given Brighi's recent fine form (Reggina and Atalanta games), I didn't think it was a great idea ...

Il Danielista 1

Genova 3 Roma 1 Horrible, horrible, horrible game. I don't know what's wrong with the team. A lack of Totti? Time to gel? Was Mancini secretly motivating the players at ...

What goes around, comes around (read as: pseudo Deja Vu)

Alberto's dummy assist, Francesco's freekick leaving a tap-in, Panucci scoring the opener and Super Mirko not scoring despite being orgasmic. Rings any bells? All of ...

International break and... swimming

So one week of calcio and now an international break. Great. On the plus side this means the title holders can get some practice in and Daniele ...

Napoli, Napoli, Napoli

Just a quick post to talk about Daniele's performance. Well as usual he played very well. And as usual the magic forcefield that surrounds the oppositions ...

The Ankle and the Miss-hape

Let me state the obvious: Terry's miss in Moscow was infinitely more tormenting for him than Jesus' one for him. This was Supercoppa. And while ...

You knew it was coming...

With Totti and Aquilani both represented it was about time the third pillar of Rome got his own blog. Starting now myself and Jake will ...

Return of the King

Replacing Stefano Okaka Chuka, the Captain was back and ... he ran (for those of us who weren't losing our sleeps only because we had ...

Kicking Off

Actually, I was pretty surprised at being given the chance to author this blog. Roma's Offside blog is currently the most popular one on this ...

Kamran

A regular AS Roma and a maniac Francesco Totti fan. Other info about me can be found on my personal blog "Inspirated".

Damn Right

Finally, someone who Prade might actually *hear* has spoken, and the good news is that he agrees with us: “If we want to compete with Inter, ...

Something to look out for..

.. when the Rossoneri face the Bianconeri next season, as the latter officially completed the signing of Christian Poulsen. The Danish international is infamous in ...

Did Somebody Say Mutu's Definitely a No-Go?

Well, If that’s the case, Il Capitano didn’t get the memo. Apparently, when asked about the transfer market, he brought up the need for a striker, ...

Roma win Coppa Italia for second consecutive year

In the 4th consecutive Roma-Inter Coppa Italia final, Roma triumphed for a second time, defeating the Scudetto winners 2-1 at the Stadio Olimpico. For ...

Some Thoughts On...Onwards

On Catania: We all saw two games because there were two games. The dejection which set in after it was clear Inter had scored brought ...

Video of the Week: Last Day Scudetto Antics

I decided, since this weekend Inter and Roma play crucial games on the last day of the season to decide the Scudetto, to post two ...

VotD: Six More Years Of Francesco

We'll get to this "game" bs later. News of the day: Totti hopes to play on until he's 37 or 38. Six more years of ...

Torino To Town: In Mirko & DDR We Trust

A brief preview before we resume regular service next week. Roma v Torino Tis the first game in the sans-Totti stretch we're about to endure; unfortunately, ...

The Holy Roman Trinity

One's walking already. One's signing for life. One's not going anywhere.

Another Ode To Francesco

I wrote something. It was good. But not that good. And now it's gone. Gone gone gone. I'm too tired to rewrite it right now. ...

VotD: One More Time, Francesco

Roma 1- 1 Livorno, Throwing Diamonds In The Clusterfuck

*For those of you who don’t know, my Amaranto heart bleeds red and yellow. So this game was excruciatingly painful to watch in many more ...