the league should be dead and buried and we should all be looking forward to winning the CL next week that's the reality.
Agree with this wholeheartedly. It's annoying as hell that we are without any shadow of a doubt thee best team in Europe and have been for a number of years. The fact that we have played so well and worked so hard only to capitulate at certain key moments resulting in either titles being made harder than they should have been or seen Champions League success snatched away from us by lesser teams is so darn annoying. Some will blame Pep, others individual players, others mentality, whatever the reason it is frustrating. I do think it's a learning curve and eventually (hopefully next season) we will get that CL monkey off of our backs and start proving that we really are the very best footballing team ever to exist.
Although maybe I'm being too demanding and as others have said, it's just part and parcel of being at an elite level against other elite level clubs, margins for error are much smaller and are magnified if/when they materialise