Quite often the Invisibles season is also mentioned by Arsenal fans. Is that the same way that Liverpool fans never hear the end of it that they haven’t won a title since 1990? Or that all other fans always get serenaded about United winning the treble in ‘99? I’m pretty sure there is at least one email every week from a United fan that references one or both of those – even more so now that Ole is managing United (who I think is brilliant, by the way). …I have to take exception to Lewis, Busby Way moaning that nobody would ever hear the end of it if Liverpool won the title. It has to be stopped, even if it means City winning the quadruple. It would be painted as a sporting miracle on a par with Rocky Balboa having a baby with Seabiscuit, who grew up to lead Leicester to their 2015-2016 league triumph – only more inspirational because Liverpool actually have a better net spend when you factor in the cost of all that beef Rocky ruined when he was training.
Liverpool for the title pretty succinctly.Ī Liverpool won would be intolerable. Lewis, Busby Way summed up my feelings on City vs. In contrast City haven’t actually beaten a team in the top 16 of the Premier League in either domestic cup and somehow got a side fighting relegation in the last 16 of the Champions League while Liverpool and Spurs had the two top in the same league and Utd had PSG! So, across both domestic cups the other top six sides only lost twice to teams outside the top 7 in the Premier League (one on penalties and one was Spurs). Man Utd lost away to Wolves in the FA Cup and lost on pens to Derby in the League Cup.
Spurs lost to Chelsea in the League Cup (on penalties) but did admittedly Spurs it up against Palace in the FA Cup. Arsenal lost to Man Utd in the FA Cup and Spurs in the League Cup. Chelsea lost the League Cup final on penalties and went out of the FA Cup to Man Utd. However, Liverpool went out of the League Cup to Chelsea and the FA Cup away to Wolves. You could say that they can only beat who is put in front of them and that the other teams have not performed. At the risk of repeating myself, who were they supposed to lose to? In the Champions League, they have got past Lyon, Shaktar Donetsk, Hoffenheim and Schalke.
In the FA Cup they are in the semi-final courtesy of beating Rotherham, Burnley, Newport County and Swansea City. The only two of those that could possibly be called a challenge were Leicester and Chelsea and City didn’t beat either of them. In the League Cup they won it by getting past Oxford United, Fulham, Leicester City, Burton Albion and Chelsea. Obviously winning all four trophies would be a fantastic achievement, but can I check at which point they were supposed to fail in any of them? The chatter around Man City’s quadruple attempt is starting to get louder.
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