It would be incredible to repeat that feat again. I think if we did, and thereby won the league, it would have to cement this squad over the last six years as the greatest ever in English football.
That's a hell of a claim, gdm. There's many on here would agree with it. You're not saying the PL: you're saying English football.
If we were to win this year, that would make it seven titles in just over a decade — eleven years. In the seventies, Liverpool won it five times. In the following decade, six.
From the inception of the PL, in the following decade (less, in fact), United won it seven times. In the noughties, five.
I need hardly add that it gives me no pleasure to recall all this, but these are just the facts. You'll notice I'm taking no account whatsoever of cups in all this — domestic or European. There are those who argue that I should be doing.
These are bare figures, though. There are many imponderables. Money has flooded into the game over the decades — for all members of the PL, that is — and I think it can reasonably be argued that,
qualitatively, it's become progressively harder to be champion in England over the thirty-eight (originally forty-two) matches. We've been pushed
incredibly hard by Liverpool in several of those title chases. And once by United.
Personally, I wouldn't care to call it.
Will we continue this dominance over the next decade?
Who can foresee the future?
It's been a hell of ride, and I'm enjoying it. I know that much.
(Just checked, had the feeling that Arsenal had exercised quite a dominance in the thirties, and I was right. Five times from 31 to 38).
