I still think we will win the league

[Scaring Europe to Death]

A little worthwhile point for those people who repeatedly make comparisons with 2012 and 2014

Around Christmas 2011, City only won 2 games from 5, after being cheated at Chelsea, drawing at West Brom, and then suffering a last minute (offside) defeat at Sunderland.
However, in between, we also won 2 home games, one of them against Arsenal

Later in the season, we went 3 games without a victory, after drawing at Stoke,and at home to Sunderland, before losing at the Emirates.

That was a true definition of a blip, and history records that we won all our remaining games, with United eventually cracking.


City won 12 from the first 14, and still only won the Title on Goal Difference.


Similarly, in 2014, despite a patchy away record early in the season, we never actually suffered more than 2 consecutive games without a victory.

This season, we’re struggling for 2 consecutive victories, so it’s not a blip. It’s a run of poor form that has continued since October.
The idea that everything will suddenly come good is based purely on blind faith, not to mention the hope that all the other results will work in our favour.

In reality, we've got a bigger chance of winning the CL, especially if we win tonight, and then draw Wolfsburg ( although the fact that I've added the caveat speaks volumes for the reality)

 

[MadchesterCity]

I hope Leicester win it and we secure fourth, third would be a huge bonus!!

 

[geoff clipp]

In reality, we've got a bigger chance of winning the CL, especially if we win tonight, and then draw Wolfsburg ( although the fact that I've added the caveat speaks volumes for the reality)

Even though I don't think we're anywhere near the level required to win the champions league, I agree that we stand a better chance of winning it than winning the title. If we win every game we have left in the Champions League we'll win it. If we win every game we have left in the Premier League, it still won't be enough.

 

[Father Paul]

Not current form, but we've been down and out in two to the races and brought it back to win it. I'm going off that and the fact the other two have no experience of keeping their bottle.

You sound like one of these nuts who predict the end of the world on a given date at this stage!!! Even if the top two make a balls of things we won't be able to take advantage of it. If we don't win on Sunday we will struggle to finish 4th.

 

[Phelan's Pace]

You sound like one of these nuts who predict the end of the world on a given date at this stage!!! Even if the top two make a balls of things we won't be able to take advantage of it. If we don't win on Sunday we will struggle to finish 4th.

Not really. There's 27 points up for grabs and it's too early, literally, to say we won't win it. There's no reason why we won't beat those daft cunts on Sunday.

 

[Lancet Fluke]

I definitely don't want Spurs winning it, 55 years since their last title and yet some of their fans act as if they're the biggest club in the world on the basis of a few Cup wins.

So seeing as it looks as if we've fucked it up, let's look after our top 4 spot and hope Leicester stick with it.

I don't have anything against Leicester as a club and don't like Spurs at all and like Arsenal even less but for various reasons I would rather either of those two won it than Leicester. But I realise I am hugely in the minority here and that pretty much everyone who isn't in with a chance wants Leicester to win it.

 

[Father Paul]

Not really. There's 27 points up for grabs and it's too early, literally, to say we won't win it. There's no reason why we won't beat those daft cunts on Sunday.

OK I accept that you are not a nutter you seem like a reasonable person. This is really a pointless argument to persist with. However, I would like to pose this question. How much would you be prepared to wager on City winning the league this year on an even money bet? Personally I would only part with a fiver at most and that would be down the pub after a bucket of beer!!!

 

[Terra Passenger]

I don't have anything against Leicester as a club and don't like Spurs at all and like Arsenal even less but for various reasons I would rather either of those two won it than Leicester. But I realise I am hugely in the minority here and that pretty much everyone who isn't in with a chance wants Leicester to win it.

:=)
I'm rooting 100% for Leicester - we have zero chance of winning the BPL.

The sad thing is, no mater where Leicester finish up this season, they will be totally dismantled next; everyone wants Mahrez - Barca are going to get him; Kante is also gone (not sure who gets him); Vardy is (in spite of age) also going to move on, etc., etc. I wish they'd all stay as a unit - but that's not going to happen.

Next year, Leicester will be fighting to avoid relegation - 50-50 that they go down next season.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Hmm, I do agree with you. My knowledge of football history isn't what it could be.

Also, I did write 'ever' under the presumption that people would add the caveat '. . . for us [City]' on their own, what with this being a discussion about City. Perhaps I'm guilty, if anything, of simply being careless/lazy with my economy of language. Criminal, really, given my "pretentions of intelligence". . .

Or (as postulated in Roland Barthe's Death of the Author) does the fault lie with you (the reader) for failing to grasp the implicit, given the context of the wider text?

Perhaps, also, if you had the intelligence you think you have (and quite rightly), you wouldn't make the same kind of presumptions I did, about people's comprehension skills, about my intelligence in order to just rudely have a pop at me.

If people frequently misunderstand what you post, as seems to happen regularly with you, then I would suggest the fault lies with you, not them

Only trying to give you the benefit of my greater experience. Making yourself understood is pretty much a necessity if you wish to succeed in this world.

It doesn't take fancy words, or a huge vocabulary, but clarity of thought conveyed through words, which is a quality you appear to conspicuously lack.

 

[Phelan's Pace]

OK I accept that you are not a nutter you seem like a reasonable person. This is really a pointless argument to persist with. However, I would like to pose this question. How much would you be prepared to wager on City winning the league this year on an even money bet? Personally I would only part with a fiver at most and that would be down the pub after a bucket of beer!!!

I'm putting £20 on @ 16/1