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The thing is...what has suddenly changed? I had a look and in the calendar year 2015 we got 81 points over 38 games. Not good enough to win us the title in any of the last few years but probably good enough this year. Why is a squad of players who for much of last year looked like a side that could challenge suddenly looking so mid-table? Sanchez and Ozil are suddenly not firing, Giroud can't score for love nor money and no-one else is chipping in (and with the players we have, they should be).
All teams go through good and bad patches, that is the nature of football. It seems to me that when it happens to us we have no ability to claw our way out of it, or not quickly enough. Wenger can't lift us and we don't have a strong captain to either. It does all come back to Wenger but it's bloody frustrating when we have these long, good runs where we look like the real deal.
Because Leicester have nothing to lose, the spuds were never expected to be up there at this stage and the chavs, gypos and utd have flushed themselves down the bog. Which leaves...

The pressure is all on us, at the business end of the season. Nothing has changed. At the critical moment we are collapsing, it's what we do. When we can't realistically catch a bunch of chavs then there are no expectations. When we are already 2 down to a Bayern or a Barca then we grab the opportunity of another glorious failure.

And the crappy manager. He hates momentum. Even on those long winning streaks he'll take big risks, chucking a minor cup without even trying, pissing away the top spot in out CL group because we've already qualified. We don't press the advantage, we slack off as soon as we have gained it. In matches and over seasons. It's called the winner's instinct. We don't have it because it's not something that is considered important at this club.