The Title Race 2022/23

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bluemoon32 said:
Me walking into the office this morning..
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Times like this I wish I was still working, I'll just have to make do walking like that into the pub later.
 
paulchapo said:
I'm not saying any of this WILL happen but I get uneasy celebrating something that isn't done yet. It will be a bearpit at Forest on Saturday as they fight for survival and I hope they win and it's a totally relaxed day of celebration for us on Sunday.
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We have just won 12 league games on the bounce, personally I think we will be ok
 
vmsuhail said:
Liverpool fans should be the last ones to say "Real are nothing special". Their special team got eliminated by Real Madrid every single time they met.
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Yeah be prepared for 'once great Real' comments should we turn them over and plenty of mental gymnastics from the media on how the win battering they gave the dips never happened.
 
paulchapo said:
I don't get Arsenal conceding the title and all the pundits saying it's done. It's never over until the fat lady sings. Sure it's very difficult and I hope to God it is over but this scenario changes it entirely. Arsenal beat Forest on Saturday. One point behind, they have one game left. Everyone then expects us to beat Chelsea on Sunday.....but...we draw or lose. We then have two very tough away games and need two, or one point, providing as expected Arsenal beat Wolves on the final day. We lose at Brighton. It's then squeaky bum time on the final day. Now of course we all hope Arsenal.lose to Forest on Saturday and it's party time on Sunday. Please God.
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It's done.

Even the arsenal players admitted yesterday. In fact it wouldn't surprise me at all if they lose at Forest on Saturday night
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
That facet to this squad is criminally underreported. And unacknowledged by some on here, lamentably.

Their metal resolve is incredible. Eleven wins on the spin and counting. At the business end of the season. Whilst still fighting on all extant cup fronts.

Pep is a fucking genius.
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I'm disappointed in you on this occasion. Several times you've had me thumbing the dictionary looking up big posh words you've written that I'd never heard of and i must say I've been impressed. It's education i never got at school so thanks, mate. However, i think you meant mettle, not metal. Scousers have heavy metal, we have solid mettle.
 
I think forest will get at least a point, arsenal have been looking for an excuse to unshackle themselves from the unbearable pressure that's been placed on their shoulders, we picked up that pressure placed it heavily upon our shoulders and whilst that weight slowed arsenal to a stumble we ran with it, because we are champions and that's what champions do.
 
Bluemoonadam said:
It'll be pathetic if there is, winning the league is nothing new to us anymore.
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It's actually got to the stage where any imperfect game or incident by City is criticised.

A legacy from City uniquely needing to obey to the letter every rule both on and off the field.

Perhaps extending this critical attitude to our rivals may improve them also so that the City destroying football charge can be eliminated.
 
I now would not be surprised if Forest won. I wouldn't have said that even after we smashed Arsenal at the Etihad. But you could just see the deflation in them yesterday. It was like air going out of a balloon. And Forest are not quite, totally safe. No, I wouldn't be surprised.
 
BlueMoonRisin’ said:
I'm disappointed in you on this occasion. Several times you've had me thumbing the dictionary looking up big posh words you've written that I'd never heard of and i must say I've been impressed. It's education i never got at school so thanks, mate. However, i think you meant mettle, not metal. Scousers have heavy metal, we have solid mettle.
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No, he’s using metal as a metaphor, not a noun. “Their mettle resolve” would be a tautology.

I hate telling him he’s right, but this time he is.
 
Coatigan said:
A lot of talk about how Arsenal's mentality changed and how our former players would have added to the fear of being chased down, but Pep really deserves a mention too, with the subtle mind games over the last number of weeks.

I've mentioned this a couple of times, in this run of wins, he shifted to almost dismissing the early part of the season. Talking about how players are so much more focused at the end when they know each game is a 'final' and wins are more important, where as they were a bit 'relaxed' before.

Sure, it spurs on our players then, and lets them put previous dropped points behind them. But imagine also being Arsenal, having raced ahead and hardly dropped anything in the first part of the season, effectively being told it doesn't matter and the real battle is now.
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With hindsight, it looks like a number of factors (including what you have identified) conspired to cause Arsenal’s implosion, but it wasn’t inevitable - and I wouldn’t have had any complaints if we’d amassed over 90 points and been pipped to the title, as they would have deserved it.

What was never in doubt however, for me at least, is that we would go on a run and seriously challenge Arsenal, which would bring its own pressure to bear upon them. I found people using the first half of the season as a counterpoint to this view in the early part of this calendar year to be bizarre, as if no lesson has been garnered from the run-in to the last few seasons, 2020/21 apart, when we took our foot off the gas after securing the title.

Even in 2017/18, after the title was won, we kept going relentlessly (Huddersfield home apart) as history beckoned.

Pep has a magical way of getting the job done in extremis, including the foregoing 2020/21 season when we looked toast in early December and went on a 21 game winning run. Obviously there’s the 14 games at the end of the 2018/19 campaign, and last season too. All incredible feats of team sport.

Tactically, Pep is incredible, as is the way he improves players, but his motivational skills are as much as asset. He knows what to do to deliver the goods in the league better than any manager in English football history, as the foregoing title wins, individually and collectively suitably demonstrate.
 
No one should ever take Arsenal seriously ever again.
They lasted longer than expected, but they fall away EVERY fuckin' season - it's just that this year, all of the usual suspects - Chelsea, Scouse and Spurs - were so poor. One or more of them will be back in the frame next season, along with Newcastle and, probably, the scum.
Arsenal have fallen away as usual and missed their big chance.
The "race" is over.
 
BlueMoonRisin’ said:
I'm disappointed in you on this occasion. Several times you've had me thumbing the dictionary looking up big posh words you've written that I'd never heard of and i must say I've been impressed. It's education i never got at school so thanks, mate. However, i think you meant mettle, not metal. Scousers have heavy metal, we have solid mettle.
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Meant to post ‘mental’ not ‘metal‘ (or mettle’!).

Unlike Pep, I’m not perfect…
 
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