THE WOLF'S DEN - Tana dei Lupi II

[AS Collie]

[RomaShield27]

[RomaShield27]

Zeman conferenza stampa di presentazione on now:



http://www.vocegiallorossa.it/?action=r ... izia=37917
http://www.forzaroma.info/news-as-roma/ ... foto-72166
http://www.romanews.eu/2012/06/05/zeman ... n-ritardo/

With Zeman back driving the crazy train, I'm already very excited about next season. I think we can all say with certainty that whatever happens, whatever way it goes, it won't be dull. Its a risk going with him of course, but I think its one which has the potential to reap great rewards. All the elements are there for him to succeed, I think, and as he said himself, this is probably his last chance in management to do something significant with a football club. Let the madness commence.

[DCGweez]

Interesting. He said DDR is a Mez'alla not a Regista..

[maro]

Very interesting. He's not quite either, I think.

[AS Collie]

I tend to avoid those terms when discussing great midfielders. They can be useful to describe a journeyman, but I think they risk undervaluing real talent.

He was a centre-back for Italy this morning.

[DCGweez]

Well I think he meant in his system. Said would only play CB in dire emergency and Baldini said they offered him the head of the youth academy a few years back.

Z also said he was close to coming back to Roma in 06

[maro]

I'm presuming Zeman was asked where he saw DDR's place in the side and the answer, revealingly, was not so much at the bottom of a midfield three. And I can't see that De Rossi will ever be as comfortable in a midfield three as in a midfield 2.

[Italiamia]

And so it goes for Roma..............who's next?

[maro]

Have you been in touch with Luca, gio? How are he and his doing, do you know?

[Italiamia]

[maro]

Of course. Poor man. Sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt.

[Italiamia]

[maro]

No, I don't think it's that; rather, it's the stuff of life's impossible, irreducibly tragicomic texture. The weft and warp. Sad, just sad.

[DCGweez]

The world is a world of tears, and the burdens of mortality touch the heart.

[Italiamia]

[maro]

I seik about this warld unstabille
To find ane sentence convenabille,
Bot I can nocht in all my wit
Sa trew ane sentence fynd of it,
As say, it is dessaveabille.

For yisterday I did declair
Quhow that the seasoun soft and fair
Com in als fresche as pako fedder;
This day it stangis lyk ane edder,
Concluding all in my contrair.

Yisterday fair up sprang the flouris;
This day thai ar all slane with schouris,
And fowllis in forrest that sang cleir
Now walkis with a drery cheir,
Full caild ar baith thair beddis and bouris.

So nixt to symmer wyntir bene,
Nixt efter confort, cairis kene,
Nixt dirk mednycht the mirthefull morrow,
Nixt efter joy aye cumis sorrow.
So is this warld and ay hes bene.

[maro]

Yes, gio; if there's one thing that life and time teach, it seems to me, it's humility - a sense of our powerlessness and our smallness, but it is a smallness that makes us, each other, life more rather than less precious. Perhaps I need to find Time in the 'Winter's Tale' again too.

I, that please some, try all, both joy and terror
Of good and bad, that make and unfold error,
Now take upon me, in the name of Time,
To use my wings. Impute it not a crime
To me or my swift passage, that I slide
O’er sixteen years, and leave the growth untried
Of that wide gap; since it is in my power
To o’erthrow law, and in one self-born hour
To plant and o’erwhelm custom. Let me pass
The same I am, ere ancient’st order was
Or what is now receiv’d: I witness to
The times that brought them in; so shall I do
To the freshest things now reigning, and make stale
The glistering of this present, as my tale
Now seems to it.

Of course I know that Shakespeare and Virgil are more meaningful and more moving to me than to most, but there you are.

[forzaitalia]

1-0 to the Nazio merda in the youth game atm, about half an hour gone.

[Lupa]

Here's an English report from Zeman's press conference.

http://english.gazzetta.it/Football/05- ... 9463.shtml