Totti Allowed To Face Inter
(Goal.com) - AS Roma captain Francesco Totti will be able to play in what might be his team’s last chance to extend their almost impossible Scudetto dream.
The good news for the Roma fans came this afternoon when the Italian football federation’s disciplinary commission decided to ban the Giallorosso idol for just one match as a result of the red card he received in the dying minutes of the Livorno match.
This will allow ‘Il Capitano’ to play against Serie A leaders Inter in less than two weeks.
Roma have to win that game as they sit eleven points behind the super-Nerazzurri.
Initially, it was thought that Totti would skip the match as usually a reaction to a foul is punished with a minimum two-match ban.
What appeared to let Totti off easy was the fact that the referee of the game Ayroldi didn’t red card for the push Totti gave to his ‘elbower’, Livorno defender Galante.
Rather it was the fact that the temperamental World Champion refused to go to the referee, who was calling Totti over to show him a yellow-card.
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Comments
I thought the 2 game ban was silly in this situation anyway, I hope AS Roma destroys Inter they don't deserve to be the champions of Serie A and everybody knows it.
Posted by: Tesoro | January 23, 2007 07:06 PM
I saw the highlights,Totti shouldn't have been red carded at all,he was elbowed intentionally,regardless everything is going Inter's way,besides if they don't win this year,they never will.
Posted by: wolfen | January 24, 2007 03:49 PM
I might be beiatng a dead horse, but thank you for posting this!
Posted by: Karsen | November 29, 2011 05:51 AM