Roma skipper Francesco Totti has hit out at Manchester United manager Sir Alex
Ferguson and English football in general.
The 30-year-old was angered when, asked to name Roma's most dangerous players
after the draw for the Champions League quarter-finals, Sir Alex omitted his
name, although the United boss put that right in subsequent remarks.
Now Totti is vowing to make Ferguson eat his words when the clubs meet in the
Champions League quarter-final first-leg match in the Eternal City on
Wednesday.
'I am not worried about what Ferguson thinks of me as - as (Roma coach
Luciano) Spalletti says - he will see for himself. I hope I will make him
remember my name.'
Totti said that he was expecting to be man-marked by United.
'So they are going to put me in a cage?' said the World Cup winner. 'The
opponents always make a cage for me.
'When I grow up I won't be a footballer but I will go and work at the zoo
with all the cages people have made for me.'
Totti then turned his fire on the standard of football in England.
He added: 'I don't like the way English football is even if some great
players play there.
'I don't like English football and I don't like England either because of the
weather.'
