1961_vintage
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4IAR.
There’s never been a 100 point era. Just one fucking brilliant team that managed to achieve it. There was a really fucking tedious 83 pt era when those rag twunts hovered up the leagueObviously it’s possible but the way teams are coming on these days it’s much harder to gain that amount of points. Everyone is beating everyone else these days, I think the 100 point era has gone forever ..
I think Arsenal's Invincibles season is also worth a mention and I'm sure Tarquins breath a sigh of relief when there are no zeroes in the L column for the other 19 PL teams. However the main thing about league football is to get as many points as possible and they only gained 90 during that season while City have won the PL with 100 points and 98 points and Liverpool have won it with 99.
Football is definitely more about scoring goals and winning games than it is about not losing games.I think Arsenal's Invincibles season is also worth a mention and I'm sure Tarquins breath a sigh of relief when there are no zeroes in the L column for the other 19 PL teams. However the main thing about league football is to get as many points as possible and they only gained 90 during that season while City have won the PL with 100 points and 98 points and Liverpool have won it with 99.
So glad you’re posting again, mate!I can’t really give you an answer.
They’re all incredible achievements in their own ways.
Centurions
Unique to City.
To get 100 points in a season, you have to be ‘on it’ almost every time you step onto the pitch.
How we don’t have a song about that achievement I’ll never know.
Fourmidables
Unique to City.
Winning all four domestic trophies is one thing, doing it while getting 98points in the league is incredible. Doing it against a team who pushed us all the way who also got 97points, meaning we had to win all of our final 14 PL games, makes it even more of an achievement. We probably should have gone and won the CL that season n’all, that is the greatest English football team ever (especially the midfield of Fernandinho-DSilva-DeBuryne being the greatest midfield ever in English football).
Quintuple
Unique to City.
Winning the Super Cup and Club World Cup off the back of winning the CL makes the Treble a Quintuple really.
An incredible achievement, but we weren’t as consistently good as frequently that season as we were in the Centurions or Fourmidables seasons. We were actually quite poor either side of the World Cup.
But that’s balanced out with it being the season we finally won the CL, and looking at the teams we had to beat along the way to do it: Bayern, Madrid, Inter.
Four-in-a-Row
Unique to City.
Hard not to look at it like it was our lowest quality title winning season really but the achievement is really over a four year period rather than one season. Having to be ‘on it’ over four consecutive seasons where you could argue that the PL has never been stronger, with the broadcasting revenue in the game these days and teams down in the bottom half regularly cherry picking players from CL teams in other leagues. There’s a reason it’s never been done before in English football because English football is so competitive, but to do it when English football is at its pinnacle is simply amazing.
Yeah, I can’t give you an answer.