If we lose the league, we've lost the league no matter how many points we have. As I said before, it's a phenomenal season, and with luck we'll finish Champions of Europe at least, but to suggest we're somehow winners for coming second with the highest number of points any runner's up has ever had is ridiculous. Besides, his general point is a fair one. He's just echoing the same guy I did. If we don't win, it's the draws that did it. As a club, next season we need to look at perhaps being bolder and going for the win, even if it costs us a defeat.
We did that last year and you didn't want that either. We were too open, too gung ho. We needed clean sheets, boring ugly wins, close games out etc. This year we've done all that, we have our top 4 spot, we're on our way to a club record 97 points, and people still want more.
I didn't say we are winners for finishing second. I'm old enough to know what it's like for us to win leagues, and there's nothing like it. But for all their tiki taka football that wows the neutrals and frustrates us, City have won the grand total of one more league game than us this season. So if they do win it, they'll know they had to scrap all the way to the line, rather than win it under no pressure as last season.
Back in pre-season, and until the halfway mark, nobody beyond this club took our title challenge seriously. Most said City would walk the league by a dozen points, and we would be where Chelsea and Spurs now are. If most of us were offered in August, a 1 point margin to make up with 3 games to go, to win the league, how many would have said, "not good enough". Even if we fall short, we should focus on what we've achieved rather than moan about a couple of draws. In that case, we regroup and the title challenge resumes 3 months later.
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