In 1965, Inter overturned a 5 point advantage on Milan and won the Scudetto.

In 1967, Inter were comfortable at the top and then only got 4 points in 6 games. In the next game they incredibly lost to Mantova and Juve past them to win.

In 1971, Inter again surprised Milan, this time overturning a 6 point advantage and winning their 11th Scudetto.

In 1988 one of the biggest comebacks happened. Napoli, comfortable at the top with 18 wins, 3 draws, and 1 loss, make a clamorous fall. 4 losses in a row, 1 point in 5 games, and Milan recover and steal the Scudetto away.

In 1999 Milan completed a miracle comeback. An average squad turned alight in the spring, with 7 games left and 7 points behind a strong Lazio side, Milan strung together 7 wins in a row, and on the second to last day complete the comeback, as they defeated Empoli 4-0 and Lazio could only draw with Fiorentina. The Rossoneri then beat Perugia on the last day to win the Scudetto.

In 2000 Lazio wouldn’t cry for long as Juventus had a 9 point lead and looked set to win the Scudetto. However Juventus threw the lead away, and lost to Perugia in the Olympic swimming pool, allowing Lazio to triumph.

Then we all know the 5 Maggio 2002 story. Inter, with 5 games left, have a 6 point lead over Juventus. Inter only manage to string together 7 points in the last games, while Juventus don’t miss a beat. The final day sees the top 3 like this: Inter 69, Juve 68, Roma 67. Lazio beat Inter and Juve beat Udinese to steal the Scudetto from a crying Ronaldo.
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Can this season be another historic comeback?

I mean damnit: one post, one crossbar, one of the crappiest goals of the season conceded (thank god behrami made amends later, with the match-winning goal). Despite all that they won the match, and it’s make the victory all the more sweeter (even more than the 3-0 scoreline of last season).

As for Roma, they seriously need to wake up because if they play like this against Man Utd, they risk a repeat of last year’s brilliant display.

Matchday 35 (27/04/08):
Fiorentina - Sampdoria
Inter - Cagliari
Juventus - Lazio
Livorno - Milan
Roma - Torino

Matchday 36 (04/05/08):
Cagliari - Fiorentina
Milan - Inter
Sampdoria - Roma
Siena - Juventus

Matchday 37 (11/05/08):
Fiorentina - Parma
Inter - Siena
Juventus - Catania
Napoli - Milan
Roma - Atalanta

Matchday 38 (18/05/08):
Catania - Roma
Milan - Udinese
Parma - Inter
Sampdoria - Juventus
Torino - Fiorentina

The game that could still potentially give Roma a little boost is Milan - Inter on matchday 36. By the however, Inter’s lead will have to have significantly decreased for it to make any kind of difference. I don’t see that happening.

Plus, with all that Francesco Totti talk on how ‘the champions league is more important than the serie a’ and all that. It must have affected the team somehow, I don’t think spalletti will be very happy about it.

7 points is not insurmountable but comfortable enough, and Inter are not Newcastle in disguise (at least not yet). Roma blew an excellent opportunity to close the game, but the chance is more or less gone now.

I saw this game at the 90th minute, saw the scoreline and figured that 6 points weren’t too much - but the demoralizing nature of losing so late in the game will have an effect as well.

What are the remaining fixtures of the top 3-4 sides in the Serie A? That would make for an interesting prediction analysis.