Quote Originally Posted by Power_n_Glory View Post
I said this year City and Chelsea weren't going to run away with the league and it would take time for the managers to settle. We haven't taken advantage of the situation. We were on course to finish the league on 80 odd points and now it's mathematically impossible for us to finish above 79 points. An absolute flop considering we lead the table for so long.
Does the fact our performances tailed off as we lost more of our better players to injury enter into it? Or is it just a case of flopping without any cause other than, say, being bottlers and the manager being at fault? What I mean is, were there practical factors that could have played a part in us failing to grab maybe 3-6 more points? I guess we all accept we'll lose a few, we surely weren't expected to go the whole season undefeated. So we've dropped some critical points over the course of the season. We know about the failure to do any useful business in January, that's a few points. We know we were too negative in some of the games. More points. Losing players to injury seems to be viewed as an excuse, but I think it's more than safe to say we lost a few points there. And for anyone who thinks the decisions made by officials evened out for us over the season, well they really weren't paying attention, so that's a few points there too. Nothing that can't be remedied with a bit more depth to the squad and a bolder attitude and a slice of luck with the officials. If we've collapsed, then the chav and gypos seasons must be really lamentable. Their excuses? Mega million quid managers who need time to adjust to the billion quid triple teams at their disposal. That's not a valid excuse really , is it? It's a bullshit excuse. But with a much smaller squad in terms of genuine talent, the reason for our failure is analysed to death and collapse is the conclusion. We could well be collapsing to a trophy and a CL spot. Not everything we want but an absolute flop? Not at all. More like a wild exaggeration.