Losing Capello was by far the most influental thing to occur, but it was not the thing to disappoint me the most. I may be speaking with the benefit of hindsight now, but in this light, what he did hardly seems uncharacteristic. So a great disappointment, yes. Biggest? No.
I'm a little uncertain to what Primo means with losing lo scudetto to Milan. I think he meant that final heartbreak at San Siro, which was hard to take, granted, but even more so looking at the bigger picture. We came out of a tremendous fall of 2003 and embarking on 2004 I don't think anyone would have challenged the notion that Roma were pretty much unstoppable. I couldn't really see Roma falling from grace in the matter which she did during the spring at that point, the prospect just didn't exist for me. But that whole thing was so dragged out, it was suffering for a good couple of months only occasionally interrupted by a positive result like Vs Juve or Inter.
Losing Prandelli, for me, was the single hardest punch to the stomach. It came in an instant, completely without warning and left me shocked both for the fact that the relaunch of Roma and the project was completely halted without anyone being able to affect it and for the fact that I suffered for Prandelli as a man and his family. If that hadn't happened, we would be no where near where we are today, that I am sure of.
Cap's departure has certainly been the most influential, but at the time, frankly, i was delighted he was going.
