Roberto Gotta in Italy

Seniore Gotta writes of Francisco Totti: Instead of being humble and keeping a low profile about the fact he was leaving behind what most footballers would kill for, he turned on the offensive and transformed the press conference into a tirade against those who in his opinion have always opposed him and were never going to give him a break because - wait for it - he's from Rome and all the important media are from a different, ugly, dark place,'The North', which assumes an almost mythologically evil aura if you believe the Roma captain.