Quote Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn View Post
I explained to you at the end of last season why it was exposed as utter nonsense when we had it in our hands to finish above the gypo cash cheats but instead collapsed. You claimed that was understandable given the chavs had already secured the title. And so we continue to hear excuses of why we can't compete because of the money, even though the evidence points to something else entirely.
Collapsed

We had this discussion a million times at the time. 2nd, 3rd, I don't care.
I have no idea where we finished in 1979 but I know we won the FA Cup.
I know where we finished in 1989 and 1991, as we were Champions. I can't remember where we finished in 1990, and that was the year I started going to games regularly. You're either champions or you're not. A few points above or below City isn't going down in the history books. The FA Cup win is.

The 3 sides who have won the title since we last did have significantly higher resources than we do. That isn't an argument, it's fact. And for a lot of that time we've been hamstrung financially. Now the financial constraints are off we should be competing with them and I expect us to this season. The new level of signings has yielded immediate results. Not the biggest prizes yet but we're heading in the right direction.