After Budapest, Taylor is now the head of the referees in Turkey. “The last one went to jail.” On the fans: "They were special to me. I always say: the day I arrived and saw 1,000 people... I didn't understand why, I hadn't done anything yet. I didn't think I deserved it, but this is Rome and I understood that later. Our relationship is special because they realized I didn't care about my image or the relationships I might have with Italian football politics, the press, or the ownership. I only cared about the good of Roma and the Romanisti. I fought for them, I gave everything. We won a cup that means so much for a club that wasn't used to winning much. The other day, an agent friend of mine sent me a photo of the Conference League trophy, which is still at the entrance of the training center. The fans' love for the club is incredible. Sure, I made mistakes, I lost games, but they always understood that I always fought for them.” “The final in Budapest was the absolute peak of this connection. After the final ended, I went on vacation, and when I came back I was already dead because of the price UEFA made me pay. What happened to Taylor at the airport is not my responsibility; the insults in the car park are, and I should have only paid for that.” “I suffered for other things as well, and my relationship with the owners suffered too. They have a different perspective than I do, a different approach than mine regarding what happened in the final, and I came back already a dead man. A few months later, there was the funeral.”   submitted by   /u/Sparky-moon [link]   [comments]