Lazio Inter Roma Caos... Mamma mia

Lazio - Inter 0-2 and all hell breaks lose. Mamma mia!!! Roma's chairwoman jumps up and down pulling her hair screaming "we woz robbed, we woz robbed" over and over again. Roma's radio stations are overwhelmed with phone calls from angry Roma fans. The Italian Commissario Tecnico cannot help himself and declares "Never seen anything like it in my life"...

Steady tigers..

let us all take a good old step back. Shall we? How about putting things in perspective?

Lazio: fourth from the bottom.

Inter: Top of the table. Just went past the little obstacle Barcelona to qualify for the CL final.

Inter struggle in the first half, survive a couple of minor scares in defence and only manages to score in injury time, when Samuel joins Eto'o upfront for a last assault.

Second half, Inter scores again. Lazio, reallytruly, don't have any good questions to ask.

Now, the crowd in the stand make it clear who they want to win. They want Lazio to lose because quite simply, they hate the fact that Roma may win the scudetto.

What do we all make of that then?

Roma have only themselves to blame. They slowlybutsurely ate into a 15-points deficit to overtake Inter at the top a couple of weeks ago. Then they won the derby with Lazio, having been 1-0 down at half time. And at the beginning of the second half Lazio had a match point from the penalty spot and missed miserably. What rivers would have been filled with words had that happened last sunday?

The truth is, Roma lost the following week - at home - to Sampdoria. And Inter regained the lead. And in spite of all attempts from niceguy Ranieri to keep the complaints out of his camp, as soon as Roma lost the leadership chairwoman Rosella went back to her we woz robbed broken record song.

what a shame.

plus, for those old enough to remember - and I'm not one of them (yes, I lie) - back in 1973, the now horrified giallorossi tifosi jumped up and down with joy when Juventus beat Roma 2-1 in the last game of the season - at Roma - having come from behind to nick the scudetto. second place was, yes, you guessed, Lazio.

you draw your own conclusion and I'll draw mine.

Roma, to quote one of your wisest fans Carletto Mazzone "shut up and you may still win"