Tammy Three Cups? Abraham targets treble in possible Roma farewell

G ive it a couple of days and Roma’s fans may change their tune. Well, not the tune exactly, but the temptation could be to tweak the words a little. In the Curva Sud at the Stadio Olimpico where they watched, enamoured, as Tammy Abraham belted out the club’s anthem and belted in the goals, they long since took to calling him Tre Punti Tammy, Tammy Three Points. Come back from Budapest with that 15kg hunk of silver and it could be time to call him Tammy Three Cups.

After all, the England striker says: “It is the only one left not in my cabinet.” Winner of the Champions League with Chelsea in 2021, the Europa Conference League in 2022, victory against Sevilla in the final of the Europa League in Hungary on Wednesday would complete a unique collection, all three continental competitions clinched and consecutively. Tammy Tre Tituli has a nice ring to it, echoes of José Mourinho’s famous “zero tituli” line, uttered more than a decade ago and repeated ever since, slipping into Italy’s footballing lexicon, his use of a u where there should be an o making it more memorable.

Mourinho had aimed that barb at then-rivals Roma, a pointed reminder that for all the talent they were going to finish the season empty handed; now he is their coach and they love him for leading the giallorossi to a second European final in two seasons and Abraham to his third. The Englishman loves him too. “I always call him my uncle in Rome,” he says. “He knows how to drive me, how to get under my skin. Even if I’m playing the best football of my career, he will tell me I need to do more. As players we need that.”

It has worked out well. “Two years, two finals: it’s a dream,” Abraham says, standing in the sunshine, boots off after training at Roma’s