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Basically you ended third in a two horse race babes

Balon, I like you mate, but you're having a mare here. Of cours Spurs are title contenders. Excellent manager, excellent players and like us they all work together as a proper team. They are 6 points off the top spot, two behind this impossibly good City team. We WILL drop points this season, and we have them to play again. Anything is possible, and it's absolutely possible that Spurs are right there fighting till the end. I still expect City to lift the trophy mind, but there's plenty of point left to play for.

You lost your nerve against Chelsea. The whole world saw that game and that was the general consensus. You were still in it.

never heard of it! Yeah getting there. After a fry-up for breakfast, proper full-on Xmas dinner, then loads of snacks throughout the day and ending the day with a cheeseboard, it was bound to happen. I was prepared for the inevitable! Thanks

Went out for lunch today and am now having a Chivas Regal on the rocks in bed watching James Bond. Not bad this life thing

Thanks to all for the birthday wishes! I've nearly recovered from my food coma and need to get out of bed by 12.30 to go to the Leicester game later. I've got 2 and a bit hours to get it done.

Just dragged myself out of bed, never hit the cot until the back of two, watched the film Joe Kidd I had recorded and then the Fugitive with Harrison Ford, oh, Red Wine and Port do not work well mixed when waking up.

But you were competing as well. Youve said already Liverpool are the only competitors to Man City for the title yet refuse to believe you were in contention even though you went top in the January.

Back from our daughters about an hour ago and enjoyed a lovely Christmas dinner, now chilling out watching tv and sipping a bottle of Château CanteraneSaint-Émilion 2011 Red Wine with a bottle of Nobleman Full Cream Wine and 3 miniature bottles of Cockburn Ruby/Fine Ruby & Fine Tawny Port all Christmas gifts to me I will leave for another time...I think

Happy Birthday mate, hope you enjoy your currycake!

How can Arsenals conversion rate be over 100%? I guess that includes goals which didn't come from big chances, but you can't have a conversion rate over 100%, they should only be counting the goals scored from big chances if they want a measure of how good a team is at converting big chances. Idiots. Sorry, maths teacher so I get pretty triggered by poor statistical practice.

Mostly comes from British people being generally incapable of understanding that coaching can improve attack as well as defence. The common football fan sees defensive work as something the team works on, and attack as something that teams are best left to work out individually. Hence the talk that Klopp and Guardiola are seen as "giving their teams freedom", and Mourinho is seen as overly-tactical, even though the exact opposite is true. United are shit at attacking because Mourinho leaves it up to them to work it out as they go, whereas modern coaches like Guardiola work intensely on attacking patterns. Hence a tactical game in English normally means "defensive", when actually of you see a really tactical game between top coaches, there will usually be lots of chances.