The Title Race - 2021/22

[youngbob]

I thought we were 12pts ahead after the Brentford 2-0 result?

Can't ever have been 12 points ahead while Liverpool had two games in hand.

 

[MadchesterCity]

They really are shite

So were Spurs

 

[balotellishaircut]

I thought we were 12pts ahead after the Brentford 2-0 result?

We were 12 pts ahead after defeating Brentford at home, but they had 2 games in hand mate, dippers won both games that’s 6pts and level games, we lost yesterday that’s still 6 pts but we’ve played 1 game more, hope that’s cleared it up mate..

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

The 18/19 season we had to win the last 14 games, partly because we lost 4 games in December and January, and 3 games over 3 weeks in December alone. But yeah, I doubt we choose to do things the hard way, the competition is strong and it's hard to win easily.

Is that doing things the hard way, though? Teams have relative bad patches in a season. Surely going on and winning 18 of the last 19 games could not be reasonably be described by anyone as doing it ‘the hard way’, in the sense attributed to it by Blues of a certain vintage.

It was hard, but that was the situation that was presented to us, not something we created because we faltered in some way when it really mattered. Quite the opposite.

 

[DMA's]

The difference between a draw yesterday and a loss is huge, it’s now in both our hands we will just see what happens. Just glad I backed Liverpool at 8’s to soften the blow. Like many on this forum the bookies where extremely premature imo

 

[01cravend]

We were 12 pts ahead after defeating Brentford at home, but they had 2 games in hand mate, dippers won both games that’s 6pts and level games, we lost yesterday that’s still 6 pts but we’ve played 1 game more, hope that’s cleared it up mate..

We were 13 points clear after beating Chelsea. 14 clear of Liverpool who had 2 games in hand.

 

[bluemoon32]

Could be worse, we could be getting hunted down by Utd & my heart couldn't stand that

 

[Indaparkside]

So were Spurs

Give me even money and I’ll have £500 with you

 

[balotellishaircut]

We were 13 points clear after beating Chelsea. 14 clear of Liverpool who had 2 games in hand.

Yes they won there 2 games in hand that’s 8 pts, we drew with Southampton that’s 9 pts then beat Brentford that was 12 pts, dippers won there 2 games in hand thats 6 pts, we beat Norwich thats 9 again, they beat Norwich it’s 6pts we lose yesterday, it’s still 6 pts but they have a game in hand, that Southampton draw was key.

 

[Lavinda Past]

What do you even mean by this in the context of this season? This ‘typical City’ thing gets casually trotted out by Blues of a certain vintage, but the truth is it doesn’t stand up to objective scrutiny: in 1985, 1989, 1999 and 2000 when we needed to get promoted on the last day of the season, we delivered the goods. Without fail in that situation. Was that ‘typical City’? Or don’t those results count?

The notion that previous City teams always fucked up when they needed to deliver is plainly wrong, so what you actually mean by ‘typical’ City is the results during that period which you subconsciously cherry pick to suit your narrative - and not the occasions when we delivered the goods when it mattered.

Either way, what bearing any of those results have on the present set up is nugatory. To suggest otherwise is absurd. You may as well compare John Major with Boris Johnson because they were both Tory Prime Ministers.

It’s actually preposterous to throw the typical City thing in, like the playing of the Joker on It’s a Knockout, when you look at the track record of success at this club over the last decade. What bearing does any of that have on the club today? ‘Typical City’ never existed in the way you appear to perceive it, and it certainly doesn’t exist now.

Teams lose football games. It happens. The fact you’re using a single defeat, our first since October, as validation for such a highly dubious concept suggests you are a prisoner to our past in a way thst isn’t logical or especially healthy.

Bloody hell. You're a cheerful c*** aren't you?

It's only a game. Typical City is justified. It's just a bit of fun.

You take this shit far too seriously mate - Give yourself a day off.