The thing that really gets my goat is this arrogant presumption from their side (manager and fans) that it's almost like the natural order has reestablished itself - they'll push on to get third and we'll drift down to eighth.
The worst part is that we somehow appear to have tapped into our own insecurities and are believing them too.
Look, I saw nothing at all to suggest that they were better than us in the slightest. Quite the opposite. Bar a couple of hideous refereeing decisions they'd be 7 points behind us now. A stroke of luck and Elia would have buried a couple of chances too, even without Mr Friend putting his contacts in. Yet a heavily ref-influenced bad result seems to have given us our small club mentality back. Well here's a thing. Last time I checked, we were still above Liverpool in the league, with matches against the likes of Palace, Burnley and QPR coming up - teams that with a fair wind, and going by this season, we should beat.
We may not do, in which case the doom-mongering is fair. But how many times have we heard that "the bubble has burst" and then come back with a streak of wins?
I think it's time to pick ourselves up, dust ourselves down, and go again. COYR.