Quote Originally Posted by Özim View Post
I still think there was a long way to go at that stage and because we were 5 points behind we felt less pressure and we got a bit lucky to win that anyway in the end with a very late goal it wasn't like we won that comfortably.

What was interesting was how we collapsed after that though when we were in the mix again, that tells you all you need to know, we can't handle the pressure when we're one of the favourites to win the title.

As soon as we're out of it we start winning again though, I don't know how much more evidence you need that we can't handle pressure tbh.
The problem is you take such an absolutist view that you may yourself seem ridiculous when presented with counter examples

Do we ultimately show mental weakness under pressure and that contributes to us not winning a league title in 12 years? Yes of course but as Letters point out there are times we do perform under pressure but we don't do it consistently because we are a confidence team where one defeat tends to have knock on effect that it doesn't have for other teams.

Beating Leicester in February especially getting a goal in final knockings showed the ability to get a result under pressure however this was followed up by a collapse which shows our utter inconsistency, and yes I'd agree we only perform consistently when under less pressure.

Leicester will win the title because apart from a slight wobble post Xmas they have shown fantastic consistency.

Does that make Claudio Ranieri superior to Wenger?? Not really just wise enough to inherit Nigel Pearsons blueprint and not tinker with it too much.