The first match was against Pescara, who had arrived in Serie A after a playoff with Monza, my home town's team. The victory, it seems to me for 2-0, seemed obvious, but the peculiarity was that all the other matches were draws, so we found ourselves alone on top of the standings. At the second match we also drew and we were caught, but at the fourth we were alone again.
Of course, of the 15 games (then the league was with 16 teams), I don't remember many. After Pescara (of which I have a very vague memory), the first in order of time is the derby, also because it was perhaps the first I saw, perhaps the second: when I was a child my father did not take me to big matches. It was autumn, I think November, a rainy day. I saw the match crushed against an access stairway to the first deck, in what is now the orange sector (the seats and their colours would be introduced in 1990). It was 2-0, with two goals from Beccalossi, one goal per half.
Then came the 4-0 against Juventus, which was not in a good moment, but such a result was beyond all expectations. Altobelli scored a hat-trick, at the end of the season with 15 goals he was the second scorer, so little was scored then. In the group that went to the stadium with us there were two Messinesi, father and son, who attacked him throughout his career, only to miss him when he was no longer there: his fault was to have taken the place to Sicilian Anastasi. The 4-0 was repeated a few years later, and I remember that match a little better.
Spring came, and in the meantime, football betting had also broken out. Inter had taken off and with 8 matches to go we had 8 points ahead (with 2 points per win), but we were slowing down. I remember a game against a small town team, which we risked to lose: it ended 1-1 with a draw in the last minutes. We lived it as a stage closer to the Scudetto, we thought that if we had lost it wouldn't have changed much, but there was some fear.
This led to the third last of the season, against AS Roma, a team that fought to avoid relegation. The points on the second, Juve, were 6, so 1 was enough for the championship. As with most matches, we were in the first deck, under the north terrace (today the green sector), where Inter attacked in the second half. Roma took the lead 2-0, then Inter recovered a goal, but 5 minutes from the end it was still 2-1. The stopper Mozzini, who had never scored in that season (and who was also the only one in that team to have already won a league title, with Torino four years earlier), shot from the edge of the area in the low left corner: goal ! 2-2! I remember the hug with my father: I thought this time it was true, it was also up to us to win a championship, after Juve many times (3 in the 5 seasons I had followed up to then) and AC Milan the year before.
There was still a home match, and it is also the one I remember best. The opponent was Ascoli, but what mattered was not the game, but the pre-game. The team went around the field with a flag that covered them all (in the picture). Then they lost the match, it seems to me 4-2, but nobody cared. Anastasi scored too. Ascoli closed that season in fourth place: today he would have gone to the Champions' League, but then Italy only had three places in the cups, so it stayed out. The level of Italian football had gone down a lot with autarky (that was the second and last all-Italian championship), and there is even someone who misses it.
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The year after Inter arrived in the semifinal in the Champions Cup, and it is the edition that I remember best, even better than the one won in 2010.
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