I look past him. The room is set up like a mini soccer pitch. The carpet is grass green with white lines delineating midfield, out of bounds, the box. There are desks on the opposite walls where the goals would be. The desks face the wall, so that the two men sitting at them have their backs to each other. They are both furiously typing on computers.

“That’s Carlo,” Giuseppe says, pointing to the man on the right. Carlo is decked out in a Roma home uniform of imperial purple with gold trim. His wall is decorated with all things Roma, including the team logo, a wolf feeding human boys Romulus and Remus from her teat, which is historically interesting and visually confusing. Head shots of current Roma players line where the wall meets the ceiling.

Carlo keeps typing. He does not so much as nod in my direction.

“And this is Renato.”

Renato at least nods. He too wears a soccer uniform, his of sky blue with white. His desk/goal is all for a team called Lazio. Everything is in sky blue. The head shots here also line where the wall meets the ceiling. The Lazio logo is far simpler than Roma’s: an eagle carrying a shield in its talons.

“Gentlemen,” Giuseppe says in his accented English, “this is our new sponsor.”

In a sense, Myron has sent me here. He has a remarkable memory. I asked for as much specific detail as he could give me on his brief time with Fat Gandhi. He told me about the gamer situation going on when he entered—I don’t know much about video or computer games or what have you—but he noted how Fat Gandhi wanted to beat his chief rivals—the “damned Italians” with the team name ROMAVSLAZIO.

Roma vs. Lazio.

For those not so educated in the ways of European football, Roma and Lazio are hated soccer rivals. They are both teams from Rome and even share a stadium. Without going into much detail, every year the two teams face off in the Derby della Capitale—the translation, I think, is obvious enough—which could be perhaps the fiercest inner-city match in sports.

Giuseppe leans close to me and whispers, “They don’t like each other much.”

“More like hate,” Carlo mutters, still typing.

“He’s a terrible man,” counters Renato, throwing what the kids call “shade” at Carlo.

“Both of you stop it,” Giuseppe says. Then to me: “Carlo and Renato met at a brawl outside the Stadio Olimpico.”

“Roma won,” Carlo says.

“By cheating,” counters Renato.

“You’re just a bad loser.”

“The referee. He was paid off.”

“No, he wasn’t.”

“Your man was three meters offside!”

“Stop,” Giuseppe says. “So you see there was a brawl.”

“Crazy bastard tried to kill me,” Carlo says.

“Ah, you so exaggerate!”

“He stabbed me with a knife.”

“It was a pen!”

“It broke skin.”

“No, it didn’t.”

“It scratched for sure. I had a blue mark down my arm!”

“Roma is afraid of the dark.”