The Title Race - 2023/24

[AndyP68]

Has any team failed to win the league despite having a better goal difference to the winner?

 

[CTID1988]

Has any team failed to win the league despite having a better goal difference to the winner?

I don't think so, only thing I can think of that's even close is Huddersfield being promoted with negative goal difference in 2017

 

[fergal_oc]

Sorry if it's been shared already, but this really made me giggle

 

[blueparrot]

Has any team failed to win the league despite having a better goal difference to the winner?

Think it's happend a few times.

 

[Coatigan]

Has any team failed to win the league despite having a better goal difference to the winner?

Yea. Us.

2020, we had a GD of 67, Liverpool had 52.

 

[youngbob]

Has any team failed to win the league despite having a better goal difference to the winner?

Yep. Doesn't happen often, but in the Premier League era the team with the best goal difference has finished:

1st (United)
1st (United)
2nd (United)
1st (United)
2nd (Newcastle)
2nd (United)
1st (United)
1st (United)
1st (United)
1st (Arsenal)
2nd (Arsenal)
1st (Arsenal)
1st (Chelsea)
1st (Chelsea)
1st (United)
1st (United)
2nd (Liverpool)
1st (Chelsea)
1st (United)
1st (City, famously)
1st (United)
1st (City)
2nd (City)
3rd (Spurs)
2nd (Spurs)
1st (City)
1st (City)
2nd (City)
1st (City)
1st (City)
1st (City)

 

[supercity88]

I don't think for a minute that the Spurs players would change their game. That sort of thing only happens in the minds of fans. Totally agree it would be typical Spurs - and typical City - for them to win it and hand the title to Arsenal. A classic Premier League story.

I know it means nothing but we are due a slip up in a title race. It's never happened before but it will one day. Any team can lose a game they deserve to win - as we saw against Real Madrid. One red card or one deflection or an injury or two and in 45 minutes the title can be gone.

Completely agree.

I don't know if we're due a slip up as such, but there will be a campaign where it's tight and we don't end up winning it. With the 6 games we've got left, it would be an excellent achievement to win all 6. What's typically happened is that we haven't had to, as others have dropped points as well. We just tend to drop less over this period. We've only won all 6 of our final games once under Pep, which was when we couldn't drop any points.

 

[Spurs quarter 69]

It would be so fucking Spursy for them to beat us and hand Arsenal the title. I'm hoping that game is a freebie for us, or I'll be shitting it. So many sub plots at this time of the year, all just noise generally, but that's something you could trust Spurs to go and do!

Twice in the 90s we won games against Leeds then Blackburn to apparently hand the rags the title. Both times I came off not knowing whether to laugh or cry, but in both cases the rags blew it. It is not likely Spurs will roll over for us to deny Arsenal the title. If we win it, it will be down to us and no one else.

 

[Corky]

Twice in the 90s we won games against Leeds then Blackburn to apparently hand the rags the title. Both times I came off not knowing whether to laugh or cry, but in both cases the rags blew it. It is not likely Spurs will roll over for us to deny Arsenal the title. If we win it, it will be down to us and no one else.

in 1995 we were desperate to stay up, people weren't thinking about helping united one bit.

At least Coward Colin was crying.

 

[citizen_maine]

Completely agree.

I don't know if we're due a slip up as such, but there will be a campaign where it's tight and we don't end up winning it. With the 6 games we've got left, it would be an excellent achievement to win all 6. What's typically happened is that we haven't had to, as others have dropped points as well. We just tend to drop less over this period. We've only won all 6 of our final games once under Pep, which was when we couldn't drop any points.

Or to put it another way...on the only occasion that we needed to win the last 6...we did