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Is the title race back on ?

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  1. Skylarker

    Skylarker PL High Commissioner

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    I was supporting them in 1979.

    Being 24 you've only ever known the PL. Things are clearer now <ok>
     
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  2. This backs up, completely, an argument that I am currently having with Pixie.

    He claims that Arsenal will continue to be the dominant club in North London, until Spurs win as many trophies and titles as Arsenal.

    Based on that twisted logic, Villa would still be a dominant club over most Prem clubs, even though they don't actually play in the Prem, and despite the fact that they have been utter ****e for god knows how long!

    A club's history is just that - history.

    It speaks of the dominance that that club once had. But times change, and a club's dominance wanes.

    No one will can doubt that Arsenal was the dominant club in North London for around 20 odd years, and its history of trophies and titles is evidence for that assertion. However, to say that, as things stand, Arsenal is currently the dominant club in North London is laughable.

    Will it emerge from its current travails as the dominant club, once more? Perhaps.

    But, equally, that club could see a period of decline, in which Spurs emerges as the dominant club.

    Only time will tell.
     
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    Indeed yours was a fleeting twinkle 55 years ago. <ok>
     
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  4. Treble

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    Come on Sky ya banshee, if Stevie Me hadnt slipped you wouldnt have gone kamakazee on the goal difference against Palace <doh>
     
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  5. Skylarker

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    All I'm saying is the slip didn't cost us the title. People love to think it did, but it didn't <ok>

    The slip may have contributed a tiny bit, but our ****e defence over the whole season was by far a bigger contributor.
     
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    Nope it was definitely the slip.

    Its like me saying terrys slip didnt cost us the cl. It most certainly did
     
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  7. Skylarker

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    Nope not having it. The slip obviously didn't help though!

    But you can't put a title loss down to someone slipping and losing a goal in a game that had more than one goal in. What about us missing a sitter in that game, is that not just as important as the slip?
     
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    I agree. You win and lose a title over 38 games.
     
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  9. Spurlock

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    Absolutely, on the one hand it's always claimed especially by some plebs on here, that a team finishes where it does on merit not by a fluke(like Lesta) but all of a sudden Pool's season hinged on one incident and nothing to do with the other 37 games.
     
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  10. BobbyD

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    Well the thing about the slip was until that slip happened and demba ba scored, liverpools title challenge was in their hands. That was the pivotal moment that it all unravelled from which liverpool would not make a comeback from

    Would you say that terrys slip cost us the cl?
     
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    I don't even remember Terry's slip tbh!

    If it's a knockout game it's slightly different to a league campaign though.
     
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    You think that's what Stevie Me tells himself every night <whistle>
     
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    ...and you concentrate on the last eight of the Champions League...now that you are an honorary fox ... :)
     
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    FosseFilberto Pizzeria Superiore and some ...
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    ...how have Spurs EPL title defences gone? ...still not started one? .. end of that debate then... :)
     
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    Give me a nudge when Lesta start theirs <ok>
     
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    At least they had one to start.<ok>
     
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    .. was going to be Sunday 23rd April ... it's now been pushed back ... don't worry mind ...you will be more than aware at the time <whistle> <ok>
     
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    Get your handbag and go shopping or go and have a cuppa with Mavis love <ok>
     
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    It would make it interesting if Chelsea lose the next game.
     
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    Spurs win and Chelsky don't, will be as interesting (after Sunday IMHO the
    more likely - I cannot see Citeh outscoring and shutting out Chelsky for a win) .
     
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