They might be winning, and this isn't at all sour grapes (I don't feel that we have anything to worry about from them). But is it really worth it for their supporters?
I can't imagine anything worse than watching your team get results, but having to sit and watch this tedious, tedious football. In some senses, I wouldn't even call it 'football'.
I don't quite know how they get the results, but they do. And second might be their strongest finish in a while. But for all of that, apparently "closing the gap" on us, or even beating us in the derby, there is the clearest daylight between us and them. Nothing interesting about their play at all.