What hurt the most about nearly losing the title that season, is that we were the premiere team in the country by one million clear miles. So superior were we, that United winning that title would have been one of the biggest injustices in sporting history.
The fact that United managed to match our point tally, despite us pumping them in both games, is literally only due to the tremendous ability of the officials in this country to cheat fans and manipulate games.
A run of bizarre 5-6 minute stoppage time allocations whenever they were drawing or losing (basically until they scored), Ashley Young securing a penalty through diving nearly every game which the media refused to cover, games like Fulham where the most blatant penalties for the other team were waved away.
I’d thought and hoped I’d never see cheating like it again, however we’ve seen with Liverpool, United and VAR recently that the game is still corrupt to the core.