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I’ve never “expected” us to.
Up until the World Cup I never seriously contemplated it as a possibility. We’d started the season better than any of us had a right to expect, but I couldn’t see us sustaining it.
A mate has said to me a couple of times that if we don’t do it then it will be the biggest collapse since Newcastle in 1996. That is obvious bollocks and I suspect he’s trolling me (he is a bit like that).
His reasoning, on cross examination, is that Arsenal were 8 points clear at the turn of the year. We were, but as I have patiently explained to him, because of the World Cup that was only 16 games in. To compare that to Newcastle who were 9 points clear with a game in hand after 24 games is absurd.
Well if it's the biggest bottle since Newcastle, that would imply that the Newcastle one is still bigger than this would be

But then you have United in 2012 so yeah.