This Weekend's Fixtures & Midweek Fixtures (20/21/23/24/25 Apr)

[HCZ_Reborn]

Unnecessarily

Dude, this is football. It's a competitive sport. You know the other team are trying to win too, right? Sometimes you're just not going to win a game. We really weren't that bad against Villa. Arteta clearly set us up to blitz them early and win it by half time. We had our chances but it didn't quite happen. There are very fine lines in football. Second half we were poor, but Villa aren't some cloggers we should be thumping. After the top 3 they're probably next best.

Your "minimum expectations" are virtual perfection. And, again. Early season you were saying we wouldn't be in a title race. The first wobble we had I'm pretty sure you were saying Top 4 wasn't assured. You massively overreact to the slightest setback. I arguably underreact, but my main thing this year is I've seen progress. That is surely not in dispute. We've passed plenty of tests this season which we failed last year. If that progress isn't enough to win the title then I can live with that, but changing manager while we are heading in the right direction under them is a crazy thing to do.

No not virtual perfection at all. They were the expectation that we would be still in the title race or in the champions league by 1st May.

It was unnecessary because it was self inflicted with a poorly chosen line up, I choose my words carefully.


As I’ve said only twice in the last twenty years has a team won the title with less than 85 points. We got 84 last season, so I don’t believe this whole Man City cheat code applies to us.

We didn’t deserve the title last season because of the collapse in the last ten games. Minus the Villa game our form in 2024 has been near on title winning form but it’s not unreasonable to expect that we keep it going till the end of the season.

We need to do our part, to get the amount of points a team would on average get if it wins the title…if that’s not enough to beat City so be it but it’s a reasonable expectation of progress