Quote Originally Posted by Letters View Post
Fair point about the league cup, but we had the full team out in the FA Cup and CL when we crashed out of those, it didn't stop us winning the league (although I'll admit I feared for us when we were behind against Liverpool). I guess my overall point is if we fail to win the league then it won't be because we went out of the league cup semi-final. It'll be the lack of a striker and squad depth.
Hold on, who said we lost the title because we went out of the league cup? That's stripping away every context and leaving just the bare frame. The argument is the attitude we just saw in the transfer window and now the semi final is instructive. It's not as if we lost the semi, it's we didn't turn up. Then we watch Liverpool in the same competition smash it. People who say this doesn't matter, that momentum is irrelevant, that the attitude you take into games can be selective - are clutching at straws, especially as we have been here multiple times before.

Now you can add in the ludicrous state of the squad, pile it on top. Yeah, the squad is a joke, but that doesn't forgive the terrible attitude of the club and then the team following on from that 5-1 - what did we used to call it? FALSE DAWN.