The 2018-19 Season

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Is there a better domestic footballing achievement on record?

14 necessary wins at the business end of the season to win the league, as well as every other domestic trophy available.

Truly incredible.

Anything to rival it domestically over a season?

Maybe Forest in 1978. Some might say Leicester in 2016.

Truly amazing to have lived it, week to week. Feel so lucky to have experienced it.

Sonething that should never be overlooked.
 
Oh indeed GDM.

Never taken for granted here. The sheer character of the squad to come from way back, focus on each of those 14 games, in turn, and produce the quality is a staggering achievement. It speaks volumes about their strength of character as well as their ability.

The quality was truly memorable. Sergio Aguero"s brilliant finish in the blink of an eye to equalise against Liverpool was breathtakingly electric - electric Blue!

Leroy Sane"s run and finish to win it showed great nerve and finishing ability.

Fernandinho and Laporte were also so brilliantly consistent in aa squad of great team spirit.

It was very tough on the nerves wasn't it. That lon wait over the bank Holiday weekend before the Leicester game was excruciating but thankfully worth it.

Vinny deserves great credit for taking responsibility and smashing that great goal in. Yet all deserve credit for holding their nerve and delivering time after time without blinking.

They all have my total admiration.

Forest"s achievement was brilliant in a different way. Difficult to compare but I still marvel at it. Scraping up in 3rd place to Champions by 11 points (when it was 2 for a win) then two European Cups. Awesome in days when you could actually enjoy other team"s success in Europe except the rags of course. They were a truly great team, particularly John Robertson. What a player he was. Clough fashioned a mid table 2nd Division side and did that. Amazing. He wasn't afraid to spend too and there is nothing wrong with that. Ask Trevor Francis.

Leicester did well of course against the odds but how can they compare to City or Forest. Great achievement nevertheless. I'm very disappointed that they have stabbed us in the back recently.

It was a privilege to watch what City have done over the last 10 years.
2017-18 was arguably better points wise than last season but I'm equally glad to have witnessed both . I feel blessed after many years of interesting and often painful experiences.
 
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Zabbasbeard said:
Oh indeed GDM.

Never taken for granted here. The sheer character of the squad to come from way back, focus on each of those 14 games, in turn, and produce the quality is a staggering achievement. It speaks volumes about their strength of character as well as their ability.

The quality was truly memorable. Sergio Aguero"s brilliant finish in the blink of an eye to equalise against Liverpool was breathtakingly electric - electric Blue!

Leroy Sane"s run and finish to win it showed great nerve and finishing ability.

Fernandinho and Laporte were also so brilliantly consistent in aa squad of great team spirit.

It was very tough on the nerves wasn't it. That lon wait over the bank Holiday weekend before the Leicester game was excruciating but thankfully worth it.

Vinny deserves great credit for taking responsibility and smashing that great goal in. Yet all deserve credit for holding their nerve and delivering time after time without blinking.

They all have my total admiration.

Forest"s achievement was brilliant in a different way. Difficult to compare but I still marvel at it. Scraping up in 3rd place to Champions by 11 points (when it was 2 for a win) then two European Cups. Awesome in days when you could actually enjoy other team"s success in Europe except the rags of course. They were a truly great team, particularly John Robertson. Clough fashioned a mid table 2nd Division side and did that. Amazing. He wasn't afraid to spend and there is nothing wrong with that. Ask Trevor Francis.

Leicester did well of course against the odds but how can they compare to City or Forest. Great achievement nevertheless.

It was a privilege to watch what City have done over the last 10 years
2017-18 was arguably better points wise than last season but I'm equally glad to have witnessed both . I feel blessed after many years of interesting and often painful experiences.
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Amazing post mate, but one point of order - in the Liverpool game to which you refer, Sergio scored first.
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
Amazing post mate, but one point of order - in the Liverpool game to which you refer, Sergio scored first.
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Doh. Thanks. Yours wasnt too bad either. You've given me a spark to write when I had a block. Bit stuck for ideas for my next piece.
Don't know why I said Serge equalised.
It must be my age, as they say! I remember the stunning quality of it and how quickly it happened if nothing else. One of the best goals I've ever seen.
 
It was great, I felt sick most weekends of the last 4 months until Mahrez scored the 3rd.

I always wonder if the pressure effects the fans more than the players, they probably just get on with it.
 
When you add in the fact that it was preceded by the record breaking season of 2017-18, it makes it even more impressive.
 
Very underrated achievement imo especially considering De Bruyne was injured for most of the season and the left back issue.

2O17-2018 was a much better to watch though imo, completely dominated sides like Napoli and chelsea away.

Rivals will obviously use the CL to negate the achievements but we couldn't have done much more against Spurs although kDB and Sane should have used more in the first leg ). Plus, if we had gone through, would we had the legs to win the title?

Leicester winning the league is the best sporing achievement I can think off tbh, completely unthinkable before that season considering the financial disparities.
 
nervy as fuck. each liverpool's game, and few of ours, were absolute tortures. we won it so it paid of and this year t was bit of shite, but not sure many would survive another 17/18.
 
The turning point that season for me was after we lost to Newcastle on the Tuesday night - Liverpool had the chance to go 7pts clear the following night against Leicester and only drew. Those dropped points gave us enough of a morale boost to start on that 14-match winning streak. An astonishing season all round, only marred by the CL loss to Spurs, which was down more to our poor performance in the first leg rather than the VAR shenanigans in the second game.
 
03/02/2019 Arsenal H PL 3-1
06/02/2019 Everton A PL 2-0
10/02/2019 Chelsea H PL 6-0
16/02/2019 Newport County A FAC 4-1
20/02/2019 Schalke 04 A CL 3-2
24/02/2019 Chelsea N LC 0-0 (4-3 pens)
27/02/2019 West Ham United H PL 1-0
02/03/2019 Bournemouth A PL 1-0
09/03/2019 Watford H PL 3-1
12/03/2019 Schalke 04 H CL 7-0
16/03/2019 Swansea City A FAC 3-2
30/03/2019 Fulham A PL 2-0
03/04/2019 Cardiff City H PL 2-0
06/04/2019 Brighton & Hove Albion N FAC 1-0
09/04/2019 Tottenham Hotspur A CL 0-1
14/04/2019 Crystal Palace A PL 3-1
17/04/2019 Tottenham Hotspur H CL 4-3
20/04/2019 Tottenham Hotspur H PL 1-0
24/04/2019 Manchester United A PL 2-0
28/04/2019 Burnley A PL 1-0
06/05/2019 Leicester City H PL 1-0
12/05/2019 Brighton & Hove Albion A PL 4-1
18/05/2019 Watford N FAC 6-0

60 Goals for in 23 games. 13 against. I'm just sitting remembering each game in turn and there were some truly remarkable moments. 3 trophies won in that sequence of games and some amazing football played

I wonder if we will ever see anything quite like it again.
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
Is there a better domestic footballing achievement on record?

14 necessary wins at the business end of the season to win the league, as well as every other domestic trophy available.

Truly incredible.

Anything to rival it domestically over a season?

Maybe Forest in 1978. Some might say Leicester in 2016.

Truly amazing to have lived it, week to week. Feel so lucky to have experienced it.

Sonething that should never be overlooked.
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When was this, G? I ain't read anything in the RDAHMeedya!
 
Saddleworth2 said:
03/02/2019 Arsenal H PL 3-1
06/02/2019 Everton A PL 2-0
10/02/2019 Chelsea H PL 6-0
16/02/2019 Newport County A FAC 4-1
20/02/2019 Schalke 04 A CL 3-2
24/02/2019 Chelsea N LC 0-0 (4-3 pens)
27/02/2019 West Ham United H PL 1-0
02/03/2019 Bournemouth A PL 1-0
09/03/2019 Watford H PL 3-1
12/03/2019 Schalke 04 H CL 7-0
16/03/2019 Swansea City A FAC 3-2
30/03/2019 Fulham A PL 2-0
03/04/2019 Cardiff City H PL 2-0
06/04/2019 Brighton & Hove Albion N FAC 1-0
09/04/2019 Tottenham Hotspur A CL 0-1
14/04/2019 Crystal Palace A PL 3-1
17/04/2019 Tottenham Hotspur H CL 4-3
20/04/2019 Tottenham Hotspur H PL 1-0
24/04/2019 Manchester United A PL 2-0
28/04/2019 Burnley A PL 1-0
06/05/2019 Leicester City H PL 1-0
12/05/2019 Brighton & Hove Albion A PL 4-1
18/05/2019 Watford N FAC 6-0

60 Goals for in 23 games. 13 against. I'm just sitting remembering each game in turn and there were some truly remarkable moments. 3 trophies won in that sequence of games and some amazing football played

I wonder if we will ever see anything quite like it again.
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That kind of thing happens every day at every other PL training ground! Dipper squad are whacking that in oblivion in their back gardens during lockdown.
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
Is there a better domestic footballing achievement on record?

14 necessary wins at the business end of the season to win the league, as well as every other domestic trophy available.

Truly incredible.

Anything to rival it domestically over a season?

Maybe Forest in 1978. Some might say Leicester in 2016.

Truly amazing to have lived it, week to week. Feel so lucky to have experienced it.

Sonething that should never be overlooked.
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I thought Liverpool won the league?
 
Zabbasbeard said:
Doh. Thanks. Yours wasnt too bad either. You've given me a spark to write when I had a block. Bit stuck for ideas for my next piece.
Don't know why I said Serge equalised.
It must be my age, as they say! I remember the stunning quality of it and how quickly it happened if nothing else. One of the best goals I've ever seen.
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If it hadn't been for that pesky ball being 11mm short of fully over the line, the statement would have ben correct.
 
I remember when we lost to Leicester on boxing day I thought the league was gone. There was a poster on here who made a thread saying we would still win the title. Fair play to them, I didn't have as much faith.
 
It was the most on-edge and high pressure few months I’ll ever have. From the moment Everton drew with Liverpool on 3rd March I was convinced we’d win it, but the pressure was immense!

In 2011-12, the pressure was off because we’d thrown it away at Arsenal and even then it wasn’t until 22nd April where Everton got that 4-4 draw at Old Trafford to put it in our hands. That produced three weeks of big pressure to end the season, but there were ten weeks of pressure to end last season!

To show the mental fortitude and performance levels we showed in those ten weeks (fifteen weeks of you go back to that Newcastle defeat) has to be the most elite levels any team can ever have shown. And it wasn’t like it was to get 86 points, we had to keep going to achieve 98 points!

Kompany was huge in 2011-12 in the 1-0 win against United to set up the title win (and of course Yaya at Newcastle and Agüeroooooo!) and showed it again last season in the 1-0 win against Leicester to set up that title win.



Here’s to you Vincent Kompany...

Laporte was superb at the back too, Gundogan and Bernardo were magnificent in midfield, and Sané made all the difference in the second half at Old Trafford.

[oh and here’s to you Everton n’all, huge for us in two of our title wins!]
 
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