Totti got off lightly with ban, says Robson

NEWCASTLE United manager Bobby Robson believes Francesco Totti was lucky to escape with a three-match ban for spitting at Denmark’s Christian Poulsen.

The influential Totti is not appealing the ban and misses the Sweden and Bulgaria games as well as the quarter-final if the Azzurri get that far.

Robson said: "Totti can consider himself lucky to get only three games if it had been an English [disciplinary] committee he would have been thrown out of the tournament.