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A person after my own heart. I agree, through playing fm I don’t think its to bad. To not qualify at all though as a prem team you have to be pretty bad although with the scheduling issues FM seems to have, always good to avoid that playoff round!

Yeah you can win 2 games out of 8 and qualify for the playoff round. I’m looking forward to seeing how it all plays out as the current CL format is definitely feeling a bit tired.
 
2 seasons ago, IIRC, it got to about this stage of the season, and Arsenal played 3 teams. I think it was crystal palace, Brighton and west ham (but I could be wrong). I seem to remember their results being 3 x 3-0 defeats. With that, as well as the capitulation against Newcastle at the end of the season, it cost them 4th place, when it looked like we didn’t have a hope in hell at one point of securing that spot over them.

then last season, they spent 247 days top of the league and didn’t win it.

You have to wonder if that’s going to begin to haunt the players again this season. Perhaps today was the start of a psychological battle with themselves.

but on the other hand, they play us next, so we’ll help with that, no doubt <laugh>