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2nd would have been good, 4th would be disappointing. I could live with 3rd. And what does 3rd mean? It's better than last season but points wise we'll be worse off. I think we can all agree this season hasn't shown great progress but there have been some good signs too.

Had we won we'd have been 11 points behind Chelsea. I don't think Mourinho would have been looking at us too closely. We have had plenty of momentum during this run but sometimes there are fine lines in games and it goes the wrong way. Why did that game 'really matter' and the Hull game (in which we were outstanding) didn't? Your definition of a game which 'really matters' seems to be one in which we slip up and the games where we don't are ignored. Fact is all games matter and we've been winning more than our fair share of late. You predicted a win in the match thread, now you're claiming you had foresight on us slipping up.
I gave 2-0 Ozil hattrick as a prediction, I think. In some ways that was said tongue in cheek. That said, I fully expected to win and find it completely unacceptable we didn't. On the one hand we hear how Maureen can always find a way to get the result, on the other we hear how results like last night's can happen to any club. Contradiction. When it matters Maureen gets the result. When it matters Wenger doesn't. True story.

You can go back and check the threads. I said if Wenger holds true to form then he'll take his foot off the pedal and settle for qualification. It would be a stretch to claim that based on a single season. But 8 seasons? There's a pattern there and it's easy enough to see.

I also said every game in the run-in is crucial with the next game becoming more important than the last. True. The Hull game was super important and we did what we had to do. No problems there. We fucked it last night in an even more important game. So big problem. Pattern repeated. Run of wins wasted. Nothing achieved.

The pattern, repeating. Yes there are some clear positives. The easing of the financial constraints, the quality signings, the injury problems clearing up. So you'd think Wenger could make a better fist of it given these fresh positives. But he hasn't and he can't.