Ever since Luciano Spalletti was appointed at Roma,rumours hold swirled that he was chosen as the best man to phase out Totti – but late strikes as a substitute against Torino confirmed his capacity to write new chapters in his careerRoy of the Rovers never found much of an audience in Italy. Perhaps that is just because nobody ever thought to translate it, although one suspects that people on the peninsula might not hold taken kindly to the cartoon’s routine depictions of their teams as being packed with cheats and complainers.
Or maybe Italian football fans just never needed a comedian book hero to fire their imaginations. After all, and they had the genuine thing right there in front of them.
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Source: theguardian.com