He just proved furing that season that he was one of the better backs in Europe as he had proved for Bayern München the years before. An Excellent player.
Michael Brown. Why is it so f***ing hard for referees to what he is regularly doing? He does s*** like that in every game and gets away with it. Send him off to Mongolia and gangraped by ancestors of Djengis Khan.
Self-imposed ban? Now that sounds good to me. To lose 7-1 in a quarter-final is abysmal. I'd sack the entire Roma team if I were the manager and go and take a long shower and cry for 5 hours.