Quote Originally Posted by Coney View Post
I'm not convinced. I think that the other teams in the league who used to lie down and die for the top clubs now get up and in the faces of the top teams. Although manu are above and challenging, they have had plenty of games where they have only just scraped it because of how the lower teams have been playing. Comparing points from year to year is not a valid comparison - you have to look at how the other clubs performed that year in terms of effort. The only thing you can look at is relative position. 3rd is better than 4th even if you get fewer points.
We were competing with a very strong Chelsea, a stronger Liverpool and the best Man United team of the decade who 'only' got 87 points and I argue the teams below were stronger then and the bottom teams are horrible this year.
If we had won the league that year it would have been a better accomplishment than the invincibles imo