I don't think you can say that we'll win the league if we beat Pompey, they are the sort of teams we need to be beating if we want to win the league, but it's a long season, if we can produce excellent performances against the Pompeys, Newcastles and Boltons, then I think we could win the league.
But as EddieC said we need to be picking up points against the rest of the big four, because for the same reasons as he gave, if we dont pick up any points against them then we won't win the league.
In recent years we must have picked up the fewest points in those games out of the rest of the big 4, an I know people are going to be saying 'well we would have beaten Chelsea if it hadn't been for a dodgy ref' an it's true we would have won if it weren't for that error but those things happen in football an if we were good enough then we would have put the game to bed before that penalty. So when we beat at least one of the big four, home AND away then I would probably say ' well yes we have a great chance of winning the title this year'
In 2003 I think it was we were top of the league at Christmas then we fell away and finished 5th, so for all the comments about the title coming back to Anfield is a bit premature for me.
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