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) Italian battleship Roma (1940) Roma, named after two previous ships and the city of Rome, was the third -class battleship of Italy's "Regia Marina" (Royal Navy). The construction of both "Roma" and her sister ship was due to rising tensions around the world and the navy's fear that only two "Vittorio Veneto"s, even in company with older pre-First World War battleships, would not be enough to counter the British and French Mediterranean Fleets. As "Roma" was laid down almost four years after the first two ships of the class, some small improvements were made to the design, including additional freeboard