The calm before the storm

keith's curle said:
Don't think that's right mate. I'm sure 'nited did it about a decade ago. And maybe it was done another time?
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MAW11 said:
It's nice to have a title race this season.
If Man City win, they will have done something no other Prem team has done before by winning the Prem in consecutive seasons.
If we win, it will be our first ever Prem title, competing against arguably the greatest Premier League side ever seen.
Whoever comes second, although will not have a trophy to show for it, will have had a fantastic season.
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The rags have won it back to back .whoever wins it this year thouroughly deserves to be crowned Champions. most years 88 points would see you lifting the trophy
 
I’m not one to bandy about the word “great” willy nilly and I’ve argued on here before that imo last season did not make us a great team but if we retain the title this season we become the greatest side in the history of English football for me. Having to win the last 14 games of the season, whilst competing on four fronts, to overhaul a 10 point deficit and edge out a Liverpool team who this year and last have proved themselves to be amongst Europe’s very best surpasses the three in a row achievements of Lpool 1980s and the rags 2000s. To defend it in a race where the top 2 amass more points than any other teams in history, the centurions aside, is worth more than the rags edging out arsenal in their treble season with circa 20 points less and stealing the CL from Bayern at the death. To win it in a season where the depth in English football is such that 6 teams reached European QFs and 4 reached SFs is amazing.

We’re four games away from sporting immortality, what an incredible season.
 
Trophies are nice and what every footballer plays for, but Pep is right when he says it's about how you play.
We turn up week in week out, to be entertained and amazed. It's not often this side fail to deliver.
Whatever happens this season, they'll always be the greatest City side I have witnessed. I'm 57, so
apologies to Messrs Mercer,Allison,Lee,Bell and Summerbee et al.
 
MAW11 said:
It's nice to have a title race this season.
If Man City win, they will have done something no other Prem team has done before by winning the Prem in consecutive seasons.
If we win, it will be our first ever Prem title, competing against arguably the greatest Premier League side ever seen.
Whoever comes second, although will not have a trophy to show for it, will have had a fantastic season.
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Utd have done it. I think they even did it 3 seasons running

Might not go down well on here, but LFC have also earned my respect over the course of the season. I think they have been fortunate at times, but they are a winning machine. The two sides have different attributes and qualities but would be worthy Champions in almost any season but this one.

50/50 how this one is going to go. Maybe it comes down to the Manchester Derby, or maybe the twists and turns that we all expected will finally happen in the closing weeks. I think the Newcastle away game might be awkward for Liverpool. For City, there are still a few awkward games.
 
karen7 said:
We don't need to as we have nothing to prove to anyone but we have to win it to stop the dipers winning it,it would be a let down to get so close on such a high points haul and lose out
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I disagree. Arsenal played beautiful football, the best this country had seen, but no one gives a fuck, even Arsenal fans. They lost out year after year to the Scum, and that's what everyone remembers. We need to win the league this year.
 
If one of the last four matches leaves a charred-round-the=edges scenario I would still regard this as an exceptional season. I have seen some of the most glorious football I have witnessed since I started watching from the '55 Final. Wonderful goals, great wins, tremendous individual performances - first team, women, and the kids. No doubt the RDAHMeedya will point to a season of failure, but I know what I have seen and it will be a season to cherish, whatever the final outcome.
 
If we end up with just the domestic cups or just the league cup, then that's life, but I have enjoyed every minute of it upto now
 
For many years i have been ambivalent about "stats" that compare different season's outcomes. They are pub fodder, open to biased opinions, selective memory, outside influences and injuries. A case in point was l'pool going an entire season with 14 players iirc, Leicester seemingly having the same team weeks on end. What has changed is the quality of managers, the era of fat sam types is waning, which makes success harder,
doubly so going for the full hit. The dipper/rag media need to find anything, anything to denigrate City and Pep, if we win the league again, "ah but failed in Europe, been found out" will be the narrative, well.....
Fuck'em, let the snivellers snipe, it says more about them than city, though it's f'kin hard to take when it's peddled by commercial interests. I sincerely believe this is not a flash-in-the-pan, and the best is yet to come
BRING IT ON.
 
It's been a fantastic season. Hope it has a fantastic ending- with the treble we deserve. I know I have blue tinted spec's, but, I am entertained so much more by our football than Liverpool's. Spurs are our closest for entertainment.

We have no prospect of getting fair credit from the media - even if we get the treble, they will still peddle the tripe that it's second best; it was the champions league we wanted; effectively, we've still failed.. what a load of rubbish. If we're runners up in the league and the cup, it'll still be an absolutely fantastic season, though the anti-Pep clamour will be deafening.

Remember where we came from
 
Thomas Hearns said:
I’m not one to bandy about the word “great” willy nilly and I’ve argued on here before that imo last season did not make us a great team but if we retain the title this season we become the greatest side in the history of English football for me. Having to win the last 14 games of the season, whilst competing on four fronts, to overhaul a 10 point deficit and edge out a Liverpool team who this year and last have proved themselves to be amongst Europe’s very best surpasses the three in a row achievements of Lpool 1980s and the rags 2000s. To defend it in a race where the top 2 amass more points than any other teams in history, the centurions aside, is worth more than the rags edging out arsenal in their treble season with circa 20 points less and stealing the CL from Bayern at the death. To win it in a season where the depth in English football is such that 6 teams reached European QFs and 4 reached SFs is amazing.

We’re four games away from sporting immortality, what an incredible season.
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No credit will be given they'll all just trot out 'it's a poor Prem' line & 'City were CL failures' again so will never be considered a great team.
 
r.soleofsalford said:
I think I can hear them moving the goal posts already.
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They will all be calling for the asterisk next to our title win with a foot note saying one of these.

  • Undeserved
  • Financial doping achieved
  • Oil ****s
  • Human rights abusers

Then the scousers will claim moral victory by reaching 90 odd points and that they are the real champions because they finish second the right way . Blah blah blah
 
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urban genie said:
They wil lall be calling for the asterisk next to out title win with a foot note saying one of these.

  • Undeserved
  • Financial doping achieved
  • Oil ****s
  • Human rights abusers

Then the scousers will claim moral victory by reaching 90 odd points and that they are the real champions because they finish second the right way . Blah blah blah
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Agreed, esp the second one. Is it right we’ve got a transfer ban incoming too??
 
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