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Pondering the NL fight for PL 4th place over recent days,
it has IMHO shown the gulf in squad breadth/depth between
the current top 3, and the rest.

Spurs, and them lot,, have a decent best starting XI, but it
only takes injuries/bans to/for a couple of key players,
and the squad as a whole is not robust enough to prevent
a significant drop in performance due to it.

The current top 3 by contrast have managed to be
competitive this season in all competitions.

I don’t think it’s that bad

as the table currently stands if we managed to get something against Chelsea instead of giving them 6 points we would have swapped places by now.

That’s no gulf
 
I don’t think it’s that bad

as the table currently stands if we managed to get something against Chelsea instead of giving them 6 points we would have swapped places by now.

That’s no gulf

The gulf is in the last line of my comment laid bare :

PL (current) : Citeh, Poool, Chelsky.
CL : Citeh (SF) , Poool (final) , Chelsky (QF) .
FA cup : Citeh (SF) , Poool (final) , Chelsky (final) .
League cup : Citeh (R4) , Poool (final) , Chelsky (final) .

Offhand I cannot remember the state of the England top league
being skewed as badly as that for a long time (if ever) .
 
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The gulf is in the last line of my comment laid bare :

PL (current) : Citeh, Poool, Chelsky.
CL : Citeh (SF) , Poool (final) , Chelsky (QF) .
FA cup : Citeh (SF) , Poool (final) , Chelsky (final) .
League cup : Citeh (R4) , Poool (final) , Chelsky (final) .

Offhand I cannot remember the state of the England top league
being skewed as badly as that for a long time (if ever) .
Pretty sure there was a period between 2004-8 where the then-Sky Four routinely monopolised those spots
 
The gulf is in the last line of my comment laid bare :

PL (current) : Citeh, Poool, Chelsky.
CL : Citeh (SF) , Poool (final) , Chelsky (QF) .
FA cup : Citeh (SF) , Poool (final) , Chelsky (final) .
League cup : Citeh (R4) , Poool (final) , Chelsky (final) .

Offhand I cannot remember the state of the England top league
being skewed as badly as that for a long time (if ever) .

We'll do our best to disrupt things over the next few years. I have a feeling that Arsenal or Chelsea will start to fall away from the top end of the PL and stay upper mid table for years to come (at best).
 
We'll do our best to disrupt things over the next few years. I have a feeling that Arsenal or Chelsea will start to fall away from the top end of the PL and stay upper mid table for years to come (at best).

Them lot have been withering since their absence from the CL
(given they are run as a business of their own account) .

Chelsky may now be done for if time has caught up with Roman
(though I do not want the club itself to go extinct) , but with
a history of noxious owners in recent times they do seem to
fall on their feet.
 
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Apparently If a penalty is saved twice it should be retaken? Anyone know if that is true?

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I think it's a fact that this time next year, we'll be far more worried abut Newcastle than Arsenal.

As a Chelsea fan this is what concerns me most. We couldn't have gone away to Newcastle, Arsenal, Everton, Leeds, Villa, Man Utd and Tottenham at a better time and yet we're still scraping 3rd in the last week of the season.

City and LFC are just so far ahead and Newcastle/Tottenham are chasing our coattails.
 
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As a Chelsea fan this is what concerns me most. We couldn't have gone away to Newcastle, Arsenal, Everton, Leeds, Villa, Man Utd and Tottenham at a better time and yet we're still scraping 3rd in the last week of the season.

City and LFC are just so far ahead and Newcastle/Tottenham are chasing our coattails.
It would be a real shame if you lost to Leicester and Watford, too. <whistle>