last thoughts for the weekend
you have been too happy, too comfortable living in your own illusion, accepting your mediocrity and blaming everyone but yourselves for your failures. every single one of you hasnt had the guts to step up and take the responsibility, to assume the leadership that was needed. everyone was waiting for someone else to win it for him.
when things surprisingly went our way, everyone was fighting to grab the mike to talk, to boast. when things go wrong, everyone starts blaming everyone, starts talking about the lack of ambition.
now you can either choose to wallow in self-pity, wallow in your defeat or get up and fight and prove everyone and yourselves wrong that you are nothing but losers.
whoever is thinking about leaving now doesnt give a damn about this team, because what this team needs now is continuity. if at the end of every season, someone is going to leave, the next season will always be spent adapting to the change. there will be no end to it. there will be none of the dynasty that is being hoped for.
and if you think signing big names will be the panacea, think about it: then you are just asking for your own exit. because if you want a winner to come in and win it for you, that means you have to make way for him. and if he does win it for the team, maybe you won't be a part of that team anymore, because maybe you would have left, simply in order to play.
so now with internationals here again, maybe it is the perfect opportunity to take this time away from london to serious reflect and maybe get this drilled in your heads: it is time to take responsibility for yourself and only you yourself can win the game.
away from london, i just watched the il derby capitolino. it's a derby in every sense of the word. emotion, action, red cards. only goals were lacking, with baptista's header off a totti cross the only thing that separated the two teams.
towards the end of the game, the roma players were on the sideline, anticipating the final whistle, as though it was a cup final. the relief and joy was palpable, as was the disappointment on the lazio side.
as the whistle blew, the camera zoomed in on the vip box, and people were congratulating an elderly lady. not rosella sensi, but probably her mother, the widow of signor franco sensi.
despite the dismal start to the season, at least, at last roma did do something that would have made him proud.
at the end of the game, the lazio captain rocchi also went to the lazio supporters and threw his shirt to them and applauded them for their support. i thought it was a very nice gesture.
captaincy is a word that often comes up nowadays. and this inevitably led me to remember something:
attitude reflects leadership, captain.
from remember the titans.
anyway i think if you want to be captain of a team, you don't talk about your future playing elsewhere. you focus on the present, you focus on your team and your fans. you get your team behind your fans and you get your fans behind your team. the people who matter more should be the fans and not the media. you don't need to convince the media; you convince your fans.
and de rossi would be a good signing. but why would he come? he is born and bred in rome, he is next in line to be roma captain after totti retires, and most importantly, why would he want to join a team of losers at best begging for someone to save them from their mediocrity, at worst happily living with their mediocrity?
when things surprisingly went our way, everyone was fighting to grab the mike to talk, to boast. when things go wrong, everyone starts blaming everyone, starts talking about the lack of ambition.
now you can either choose to wallow in self-pity, wallow in your defeat or get up and fight and prove everyone and yourselves wrong that you are nothing but losers.
whoever is thinking about leaving now doesnt give a damn about this team, because what this team needs now is continuity. if at the end of every season, someone is going to leave, the next season will always be spent adapting to the change. there will be no end to it. there will be none of the dynasty that is being hoped for.
and if you think signing big names will be the panacea, think about it: then you are just asking for your own exit. because if you want a winner to come in and win it for you, that means you have to make way for him. and if he does win it for the team, maybe you won't be a part of that team anymore, because maybe you would have left, simply in order to play.
so now with internationals here again, maybe it is the perfect opportunity to take this time away from london to serious reflect and maybe get this drilled in your heads: it is time to take responsibility for yourself and only you yourself can win the game.
away from london, i just watched the il derby capitolino. it's a derby in every sense of the word. emotion, action, red cards. only goals were lacking, with baptista's header off a totti cross the only thing that separated the two teams.
towards the end of the game, the roma players were on the sideline, anticipating the final whistle, as though it was a cup final. the relief and joy was palpable, as was the disappointment on the lazio side.
as the whistle blew, the camera zoomed in on the vip box, and people were congratulating an elderly lady. not rosella sensi, but probably her mother, the widow of signor franco sensi.
despite the dismal start to the season, at least, at last roma did do something that would have made him proud.
at the end of the game, the lazio captain rocchi also went to the lazio supporters and threw his shirt to them and applauded them for their support. i thought it was a very nice gesture.
captaincy is a word that often comes up nowadays. and this inevitably led me to remember something:
attitude reflects leadership, captain.
from remember the titans.
anyway i think if you want to be captain of a team, you don't talk about your future playing elsewhere. you focus on the present, you focus on your team and your fans. you get your team behind your fans and you get your fans behind your team. the people who matter more should be the fans and not the media. you don't need to convince the media; you convince your fans.
and de rossi would be a good signing. but why would he come? he is born and bred in rome, he is next in line to be roma captain after totti retires, and most importantly, why would he want to join a team of losers at best begging for someone to save them from their mediocrity, at worst happily living with their mediocrity?
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