Even if it's must win 3 pointer game, media hyping and Wenger saying he's confident the team will deliver and the usual media narrative building up the importance of a particular game? A game where we just fail to turn up and totally bottle the occasion. You wouldn't call it choking?
expectation levels of the two clubs count for a lot. 8 years without a trophy but 17 in the cl keeps those levels far higher than spurs, added to the weight of history between the two clubs and respective managers. we are 'expected' in a sense to remain among the elite whilst if spurs achieve it, they are breaking not only the establishment but their own threshold. and that goes back far longer than wenger's reign.
Sorry - I don't follow.Originally Posted by Power_n_Glory
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After they played us they only lost one game you'd expect them to win though, and they won games which I thought they'd drop points in. Overall I don't see how that's choking. It was the 2 games after we played them that let us back in but even then despite the run we were on and their tougher run-in they pushed us hard and we had to scrape a win on the last day of the season to stay ahead of them.
We did, and we dropped points in both. As for the relegation-threatened teams, we put Wigan down although it was a few days after the Cup Final when we'd had a break. QPR were already down, Newcastle were safe, Fulham weren't in serious danger. West Brom and Swansea weren't in any danger. Norwich were in trouble but we were at home and they'd only won one of their previous 15 games! Even then we wobbled. Reading were rock bottom and we were at home, they lost 15 out of 19 away games and had lost their previous 5 games when we played them.
City had already surrendered? They'd won the 3 previous games before they played Spurs, including away at Utd. It was all over bar the shouting by then anyway but the results hardly suggest they weren't bothering any more at that stage. As for Chelsea, they certainly had a poor league season but they did win 6 of their last 8 league games, the only 2 they dropped points in were Liverpool away and Spurs at home - it was the first time they'd dropped at home since the Reading game at the end of January
After the Spurs game I didn't think we had a chance of catching them. I fully expected them to drop points - 6 of their last 10 games were potentially tricky - but I had no confidence in Arsenal's ability to put the kind of run together we needed to in order to put serious pressure on. We rather stumbled through a lot of games but by hook or by crook we did it.
End of the day I'd expect Spurs fans to be more emotional about this than us, they'd surely be more likely to feel the team choked or let them down. None of the Spurs fans I know do feel that.
Top analysis.
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spurs did not choke this season.
they choked last season. even their own fans admit it.
but this season they got their highest ever points tally and had a great run towards the end. that is not choking.
Spot on.
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Points taken. Nothing wrong with us agreeing to disagree on matters providing we keep it civil.
Think we can all agree, though, that spuds have well and truly developed and embraced an inferiority complex to us. Trying to usurp us is pretty much the highlight of their seasons. Keeping them in their place over many seasons has one common denominator, that is Arsene Wenger, to whom due credit should be given and respect must be shown for this litlle bit remarkable fete.
This is fasting becoming the highlight of ours too.
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