A Totti-Heavy Rumor and News Roundup

By: Martha | December 7th, 2006

•Don’t look now, but it sounds like the great and saintly Totti might have been photographed with (gasp!) a lady who wasn’t his wife, and in such a compromising position that he paid the photographer off to keep the photo from being made public. In the polite world, that’s called a mutually beneficial commercial exchange. In the real world, it’s blackmail. I don’t know about you, but I’m stunned. Stunned, I tell you!

•On the football front, the media have officially worked themselves into a frenzy trying to figure out if Totti will be fit for the Rome derby on Sunday. The latest word? Maybe. Thanks for that.

•I know I try to avoid reporting stories on which Tribal Football is the main source, but I couldn’t resist this one: Apparently Figo and Mancini had a real mother of a blowup after the former was substitude against Bayern, to such a degree that there’s no longer a chance in hell he’ll be at the club after the season ends. I have no idea what to make of this — Tribal Football claims the story was reported by an actual paper (Corriere dello Sport), and Figo has had public-ish disagreements with coaches before (witness his epic pouting after being substitute against England in Euro 2004), so it’s certainly possible. The problem is that everyone will say everything is fine when asked, and there were reports this was his last season at Inter even before this (maybe) happened — so, basically, we’ll never know.

•For the six of you who are folllowing Coppa Italia right now, Empoli and Arezzo are through to the quarters; Genoa and Parma play today to determine which will round out the last eight.

•Finally, Pavel Nedved totally did all the bad stuff of which he’s been accused, and Referee Stefano Farina is a wonderful, wonderful man. That, at least, according to Nedved’s stompee Francesco Bega and Farina himself, both of whom spoke with the media yesterday and gave the whining Czech a series of verbal smacks. Ha ha.

Category: Coppa Italia, Figo, Rumors & News, Serie A, Totti

Tags: Coppa Italia, Figo, Nedved, news, Serie A, Totti

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• Bob |  December 7th, 2006 at 4:24 pm

  
  
  

  Add blackmail to the list of reasons why pound-for-pound Serie A is the tabloid champion league of the world. Can’t wait for the photos to leak out so I can see who this woman is who fancies a perpetual thumb sucker.

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• Laurie |  December 7th, 2006 at 6:39 pm

  
  
  

  I checked out your original Italian page and have two comments:
  1)To deflagrate IS an actual English verb. I had to look it up. But I figured, it was, like, conjugated, and even a translator wouldn’t conjugate gibberish. Right?

  def·la·grate (dĕf’lə-grāt’)
  To burn or cause to burn with great heat and intense light. (Just though I’d share.)

  2) Totti got it on with a showgirl named “the Flavia Wind”? Even given translation issues, wouldn’t that name and occupation just scream to any normal, rational person, “I will sell my soul (and your photos) to the tabloids for large sums of money”??

  Somehow I don’t believe he was thinking with the correct part of his anatomy.

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• Muddia Dome |  December 8th, 2006 at 10:44 am

  
  
  

  I’m sure this showgirl was a hottie, but he is married to like the hottest girl, not just in Italy, but possibly all of Europe. Not a good move Frankie.

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  [...] that Totti-blackmail story from back in December? Well, nevermind — the extortion case against the photographer in question has been dismissed [...]

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