As things stand (you draw with United) and if they win their game in hand you're one point ahead of them
I'd be very pleased. Although there would have to be some sleight of hand with the maths which would even be beyond David Cameron's accountant
Thats a good analogy, Spurf - he does have that ability to drift unnoticed into space. Has the same eye for a pass as well - if he turns out as good a header as well we really will have a special player on our hands
In the end I think that it is the home match V Leicester that may prove the most telling result of the season, that 6 point swing may yet prove to be the deciding factor and a template for Leicester to build their 2nd half of the season on too, and it was a match we should have won we were the better side that night.
Not for me. If things finish as they are, then for Leicester those away wins against Spurs/Citeh are IMHO their pivotal moments. Similarly only taking one pt from 6 against the Spanners/Goons that week in March was Spurs pivotal moments.
As I've said previously, our start to the season was unforgivably slow and, time has told, has come back to haunt us at the business end of the season. The sluggish and bizarre loss to United, the capitulation against Stoke, the late goal at Leicester which was cancelled out 2 minutes later, the goalless draw against Everton in a match that we dominated. I make that anywhere between 6-9 points dropped. My feeling is that our ludicrous pre-season arrangements and traditional dallying in the transfer window with some soap opera with WBA thrown in for good measure were the two main contributing factors to a pathetic return of 3 points from our first 12...decidedly not the record a title contender should be showing.
Shame the "Two Fat Ladies" at Sunderland and Newcastle are taking their teams down.Wonder what they are getting paid to do this dirty deed?
The final third of the PL season is where it is all won and lost, not the first. Remember 2011-12 ?? Appalling first 2 games. Then a superb run of form. Only to watch an atrocious collapse over 9 games in the final third.
I was at that game...thought we were unlucky as hell that night...ahh well ... still can't believe how good our season is ... would have bit your hand off to be in this position back in September. ..no win in our first 4 games seems a long long time ago!
Remember it...I have bloody nightmares about it! I have have had therapy, and had to find a happy place to cope with the trauma...then, on a night that I am basking in the warm fuzzy feeling of slapping united 3 nil you go and bloody bring it up....you bastard!
Of course. But they only two games were against the teams who finished 1st and 2nd, 19 points ahead of everyone else, not twice as many games against weaker opponents! Our form throughout this season has been consistently superb with minor blips here and there, and you can include the final 3rd of the season in that assessment. The only time we've seen a sustained run of poor form this season was back in the opening 4 games...and now we're paying the price.
My anger over it will probably only die if Spurs win the PL this season. As I think yidokev said, the outcome of 2011-12 probably regressed the club by a good 3 seasons.
It's especially bad because it currently looks like Middlesbrough will be heading past them in the opposite direction come May.
Of the first four games, I thought we outplayed the other team three times and were even once (against Stoke). I was very glass half full in those days, relatively speaking. The problem was we weren’t scoring much because Kane wasn’t scoring at all. Kane sent Eriksen in on de Gea, and Eriksen chipped the ball a few inches too high. If it had gone in I think we would have walked the league...or be battling it out for fifth.
The pivotal moment for Leicester was being 2-0 down at home to Villa and going on to win. Both teams looked even that day but one got a massive motivational boost and the other got a massive punch in the gut.
Hmm, I personally thought you were lucky to come away with a point from the KP. We should have definitely had a penalty.
