Our seasons are not the same.Well done Man City. 4 peat. Incredible performance!
Kudos to Arsenal for matching Spurs trophy haul this season
But we seeminlgy live rent free in your head.
Carry on.
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But we seeminlgy live rent free in your head.
Carry on.
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Very good. But brick not hit back!
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I think people are going to be pretty disappointed with any charges Man City receive. Not a chance they strip titles or relegate them. Maybe dock 10 points or something trivial at most.
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"If" we're found guilty of all charged the punishment will be significant.
I don't think a tribunal could make that decision on guilt, and give a trivial punishment for it. Relegation certainly a possibility.
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I mean yeah City have won a bunch lately but in terms of "farmers" league, they have been run close in comparison and the top 6 spots have changed a bit recently.
Winning margins of 2pts, 5pts, 1pt in the last 3 years with it being 2 different teams chasing.
Winning margins of 2pts, 5pts, 1pt in the last 3 years with it being 2 different teams chasing.
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How would they then justify Everton who cooperated getting an 8 point ban with over 100 less charges?
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I think they’ll drop two tiers because it’d be too easy to go up after a year. 2years and a lot of more players will leave. I wouldn’t rule out titles being lost either
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Of course, the one year Spurs finished second was a year City didn't win it.
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Can see it now, Eze sitting on his couch and Rashford playing.
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It doesn't work like that. Punishments are applied in the season that they are adjudicated.
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The Denial stage.
You keep telling yourself that. Eventually reality sets in and it hurts.
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It'll be a slap on the wrist at most. EPL basically have their hands tied, they can't punish Manchester City to any great extent without it affecting diplomatic relations between UK and UAE. But sports washing doesn't exist apparently.
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Why does the Premier League care about diplomatic relations between UK and UAE?
If we're found guilty we'll get the biggest punishment there's been in the English game.
So many bitter fans on this forum. Seems some are programmed to find the negative in everything.
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You are not that naive
Uh, ok?
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He nailed it tbh.
Liverpool didn’t beat Arsenal or City and that’s why we’re third. Arsenal went to The Etihad and parked a bigger bus than Chelsea in their days under Mourinho.
You have to beat the best if you want to be the best.
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At least Arsenal has a chance to reverse this. You’re still actively trying to improve your side from a position of strength. Liverpool refused to do that when we were losing titles by a point or two or even winning one.
Context is important however. Just a couple of years ago, both Liverpool and City would annually help themselves to 6 points from Arsenal. Arteta needed to stem the tide here, and he did.
Arsenal won 8 points from 12 this season from Liverpool and City. That’s an outstanding return from those 4 fixtures that I would guess 18 PL clubs would take if offered at the start of the season.
Conversely, Arsenal only earned 1 point from 12 across 4 fixtures against Villa and Fulham. That’s proven very costly in the final table. And this is the next level of consistency that Arsenal will be aiming for next season.
Well apparently all that matters are trophies according to opposition fans who mock Spurs even though they were challenging for the title, making champions league finals and having regular top 4 appearances 5 or so years ago
So actually yeah, on the criteria set out on that basis our seasons are the same
City lost to us at Emirates though. Where was their mentality that day? The fact is we were unbeaten against top 6 sides and fumbled against Villa and Fulham. Nothing to do with mentality.
