http://roma.theoffside.com News from AS Roma Italian football team Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:48:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Roma 2 - Fulham 1 The English will have you believe this was about the referee. But with the benefit of video replay we have seen... i. The intentional handball in the first half on the ball to goal was a red card and penalty. ii. The red card in the second half ... http://roma.theoffside.com/team-news/elephantiasis-of-the-left-thigh.html Squad 2 CICERO JOAO DE CESARE (CICINHO) 3 MARCO ANDREOLLI 5 PHILIPPE MEXES 7 DAVID MARCELO CORTES ... http://roma.theoffside.com/team-news/wasting-time-with-europa-while-awaiting-the-future.html Bologna Struggled forever finding any words to sum up this victory. Not talking about le mot juste - just le mot. And then it came from the strangest place. The Dark Knight happens to be on Home Box Office at the moment, and I'm finding it highly appropriate as Harvey What's-His-Two ... http://roma.theoffside.com/team-news/simone-also-likes-triangles.html Roma v Bologna I like triangles. A lot. One after another... Just win. How about that? Just win. Squad Andreolli Antunes Baptista Bertagnoli Brighi Cerci Cicinho Doni Esposito Faty Greco Guberti Juan Menez Mexes Motta Okaka Perrotta Pit Pizarro Riise Vucinic Assenti: Burdisso, Totti. Squalificati: De Rossi, Cassetti, Taddei (2) XI Doni Motta, Mexes, Juan, Riise Cerci, Pizarro, Brighi, Perrotta Menez, Vucinic. Streams: ... http://roma.theoffside.com/team-news/triangles-are-cool.html Udinese 2 - Roma 1 The majority of the blame lies not on the stuttering, misfiring and nonfiring Mirko, but Rodrigo Taddei. How many promising Roman attacks were undone by David Pizarro Syndrome (that of laying the ball exquisitely onto the foot of an opposing player) in the first half? Most ... http://roma.theoffside.com/team-news/brazilian-double-agents.html Udinese 2 - Roma 1 GAME Cleared, and that's game. No three minutes of added stoppage this half. Di Natale skies one, one last chance to go down the pitch. Brighi off after a great deal of running. Finally, Baptista. How casual. 90' Slowly play building back up, but this will take a miracle with Vucinic ... http://roma.theoffside.com/team-news/a-black-white-affair.html Udinese The injury list is bustling, the back line is patchwork, the midfield full of grit but no flair, and Mirko Vucinic's doppelganger is still roaming the pitch without the slightest clue. No Totti, no Pizarro, no Menez, no idea where the creativity will come from. No words, really, for a ... http://roma.theoffside.com/team-news/udinese-mirko-mirko-mirko.html How wrong can it possibly go? How predictably, consistently wrong? Roughly 18 months previous, Roma dropped big points at home to a very weak relegation-bound Livorno side. The next day, Francesco Totti was forced to the operating room. This Sunday, Roma lost arguably their worst game in years, at least on paper, ... http://roma.theoffside.com/team-news/roma-has-a-curse-and-its-name-is-livorno.html Roma v Livorno Oh Livorno, how we have not missed thee. Back in the day, the last time Livorno was found clawing for its topflight life in October, ultimately failing, they were bastards. Absolute bastards. How dare they not roll over for Roma. How dare they unleash the most incredible team ... http://roma.theoffside.com/team-news/reopening-old-wounds.html They did their damnedest to hang themselves, but Fulham just wouldn't allow it. Far too hospitable, far too forgiving, far too much like the cottage dwellers they are. Roma'd strung up the noose, dragged over the chair and climbed atop with a steady calmness. The chair kicked out, Fulham swung ... http://roma.theoffside.com/team-news/ill-bring-the-noose-you-bring-the-camera.html