Title Race

[Strontium]

It's fizzled out like Arsenal's title challenge did last season.

 

Of course, after last season, Arsenal went out and spent £200m. And therein lies the difference.

[Carra_is_legend]

I sincerely fucking hope that Arsenal don't win it. I will never be able to forget this season if that happens.

[3 Stacks]

16 minutes ago, Strontium said:

It's fizzled out like Arsenal's title challenge did last season.

 

Of course, after last season, Arsenal went out and spent £200m. And therein lies the difference.

Arsenal were at the beginning of their attempt to become a world class team again. They're building something stable under the same manager.

 

Our season was almost a Cinderella title, built on a rebuild of the midfield and a desire to come back after last season, but ultimately built on not super solid ground. And then Klopp is leaving so there were the emotions, negative and positive of that.

[Anubis]

Okay, I’m going to gaslight myself. With Arsenal losing, if we are inch perfect and they and Shitty drop points we can still pull this out of the bag.

[Scott_M]

[Em City]

Don't do it to yourselves. 

 

Just take consolation that the Gooners are on the same pain train as us.

[Lee909]

City wint drop points till its over. Both ourselves and Arsenal blew it. It was there for the taking,especially for us. But lazy performances and I'd add some arrogant performances at times has cost them. Added to not being able to finish

 

You don't win titles picking up 1pt in 6 vs the teams 7th and 15th in the league in the last 8 games of tbe season. You also rarely win leagues when you get 3pts out of 12 against your rivals. 

[BeefStroganoff]

Man cheaty have got this now.

 

At best they will look like in one game they are heading for defeat and then some young no mark will pull something out of the bag for them.

[Dapower]

17 minutes ago, Anubis said:

Okay, I’m going to gaslight myself. With Arsenal losing, if we are inch perfect and they and Shitty drop points we can still pull this out of the bag.

Because of our shit finishing city will need to slip up twice in 6 which I can’t see 

 

[Scott_M]

1 hour ago, Strontium said:

Of course, after last season, Arsenal went out and spent £200m. And therein lies the difference.

To still not win it? 

[Denny Crane]

We play twice before Man City play next in the League. Four games in 11 days for them. 

 

 

 

[Dapower]

3 minutes ago, Denny Crane said:

We play twice before Man City play next in the League. 

 

 

 

So we could be 4 clear with 2 games in hand well a small bit of pressure applied maybe 

[Babb'sBurstNad]

Never thought I'd say it, but an international break about now would be a welcome relief from this title challenge fever dream.

[Bruce Spanner]

7 minutes ago, Denny Crane said:

We play twice before Man City play next in the League. Four games in 11 days for them. 

 

 

 

 

They are losing two of those.

[Barrington Womble]

7 minutes ago, Denny Crane said:

We play twice before Man City play next in the League. Four games in 11 days for them. 

 

 

 

We're about to play 4 away games in 10 days. 

[Lee909]

7 minutes ago, Denny Crane said:

We play twice before Man City play next in the League. Four games in 11 days for them. 

 

 

 

 

Brighton and Forest

That's sone grasping for straws. 

 

The way we are playing we'll drop points again against a Fulham side that generally cause us problems

[Colonel Bumcunt]

We're fucking shit. 

We're not winning the league and we we're lucky to be this far ahead of 4th. 

[halewood pete]

40 minutes ago, Anubis said:

Okay, I’m going to gaslight myself. With Arsenal losing, if we are inch perfect and they and Shitty drop points we can still pull this out of the bag.

 

[Freddo]

What’s the betting on total collapse and villa overhaul us. 

[Bobby Hundreds]

12 minutes ago, Lee909 said:

 

Brighton and Forest

That's sone grasping for straws. 

 

The way we are playing we'll drop points again against a Fulham side that generally cause us problems

We are designed to be suckerpunched. 23 times going behind that's a tactical/coaching issue.

[Denny Crane]

10 minutes ago, Lee909 said:

 

Brighton and Forest

That's sone grasping for straws. 

 

The way we are playing we'll drop points again against a Fulham side that generally cause us problems

 

Results last season for the optimists. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Nelly-Szoboszlai]

It’s a big ask but we shouldn’t give up hope until it’s mathematically impossible. 
 

We’ve had ludicrous calls going against us which could’ve made us around 7-9 points better off and Arsenal and City a point worse off.  That’s made me make peace (or more like a state of wounded but powerless inevitability) with us not winning the league. So, anything that keeps us in it a bit longer is a bonus. 
 

But, the above, in a strange way, has made me not give up hope. There’s the cliché that “these things even themselves out over the season.” Not sure that I necessarily agree with anything being capable of levelling out some of the utterly unacceptable decisions we’ve been on the end of this season. 
 

But, I’ve got to believe that City won’t always get the rub of the green. They’ve always been lucky, lucky bastards as well as being bad financial doping cheats. 
 

The Sterling offside when he played for us, the Rodri non-penalty against Everton, the Doku non-penalty, Kompany scoring a once in a lifetime goal to secure a win against Leicester, a dodgy penalty at Wolves in 21/22. Just some of the woeful decisions and unprecedented incidents which have seen them beating us to titles. 
 

I can’t bring myself to accept that cheating fuckers will always be blessed with such spawniness and luck too. 
 

At some point, even if it’s just once, surely the footballing gods will conspire to ensure that something goes against them? 
 

I’m just going on blind faith that it’ll happen this season and that we don’t keep on getting the shitty end of the stick. 

 

[Carra_is_legend]

Nah, I am not getting sucked into this again. 

[joe_fishfish]

Well it’s not luck is it, it’s more that they take half of the PGMOL on all expenses paid trips to Abu Dhabi. 

[Bobby Hundreds]

3 minutes ago, joe_fishfish said:

Well it’s not luck is it, it’s more that they take half of the PGMOL on all expenses paid trips to Abu Dhabi. 

Luck be a paid trip toniggghtt