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Incredible as it seemed, and indeed always will, they were worthy champions. |
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Had it got close to 'bottle it' territory, then maybe they would have, but it's testament to them that they kept everyone at arms length all season. |
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At any point. I remember a spell where they looked nervous in their play, but they dug out results. I seem to remember a 2-2 draw at home to someone where they scored a last minute penalty. Had they lost that, who knows.... ... but every title race has moments like that. Whichever way you look at it, they were worthy winners. |
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They looked nervous early on at OT. We scored and I thought we'd go on to win, but they grew in to the game and were incredibly confident in what they were doing. It masked their limitations. City set the bar now for the quality of football.... but Leicester, Chelsea and to lesser extent Liverpool (who have been building to this season a little more) over the last few years have shown just how far you can get with a bit of momentum and confidence. Even we've managed a complete flip in from over 10 league matches |
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You can't bottle something you never led. |
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We are seeing a club the size of Liverpool looking nervous with a 7 point lead in February. The fact their arse didn't fall out the minute they were top is remarkable enough . |
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Don't confuse the point, I'm not diminishing Leicester's achievement - it was incredible - just that the lack of meaningful challenge was immeasurably helpful. Weird that anyone can argue with that point tbh. Equally, I've always rated Poch and I'd be happy for him to follow Ole at United. But I think it's a tall order not to suggest that their inability to meaningfully challenge Leicester that season was disappointing and the lack of trophies full stop is v poor. Some of that is on Poch. |
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You see if we were to apply this standard where you don't have to be in front to bottle something then bar the odd year when one team runs away with it, then every other season a team bottles the league. Because if you won all the games you didn't you'd be champions! And that's why I'm not throwing around the bottle card when it gets treated as a synonym for not winning a game these days. |
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* use different word. |
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