2005–06 A.S. Roma season 2005–06 A.S. Roma season The 2005–06 season saw Associazione Sportiva Roma experience several ups and downs, as it went through periods of poor form which bracketed a then-record 11 match winning streak in Serie A. Despite this period of excellent form, the club originally finished just fifth in the final standings, before Juventus, Milan and Fiorentina all were declared of varying guilt in a scandal that rocked Italian football in the summer of 2006. The resulting point deductions directed toward all three aforementioned clubs promoted Roma to second in the final standings. The season also saw Roma hit with a
Italian battleship Roma (1940) forces, they would easily outnumber the Italian fleet. Mussolini postponed his decision, but later authorized planning for the two ships in January 1937. In December, they were approved and money was allocated for them; they were named "Roma" and ("Empire"). Laid down nearly four years after "Vittorio Veneto" and "Littorio", "Roma" was able to incorporate a few design improvements. Her bow was noticeably redesigned to give "Roma" additional freeboard; partway into construction, it was modified on the basis of experience with "Vittorio Veneto" so that it had had a finer end at the waterline. She was also equipped with thirty-two