What am I killing myself over? I’m not trying to prove anything, what I’m trying to say is there was no title challenge from anyone post about Feb, Leicester were so strong and we couldn’t get close to them. The point is that we were never top, Arsenal were halfway through the season, but for some reason the narrative has been allowed to developed that we ‘bottled it’ and that it was a ‘two horse race’ when in reality this was just a SKY plot to sell the games and it was always Leicester’s to lose. Which they didn’t.
As usual this last point is just a load of crap to be fair. Our ‘achievements’ are praised by some who understand football because quite honestly we’ve done exceptionally well to grow organically and get to the point where we face interrupted the status quo of the Premier League era where yourselves, United and Liverpool plus the oil clubs would dominate the top positions in the league.
You can’t have it both ways. On some fronts we have to win a trophy etc. It’s a great failure - yet on the other hand, we haven’t won trophies consistently for such a long time and don’t deserve to be up there. People always try and play this double standards but I think on the whole the neutral appreciates that we have spent a long time building and growing as a team, with a near minimal net spend and a manager that chooses to develop rather than with players. We play good football, with the core of the England squad and have a very likeable manager.
On your point about the media, your blinkers seems to always ignore the fact we get an incredibly rough deal from them in terms of coverage. The way they are trying to get Pochettino to Manchester United is disgraceful and they are constantly putting us down on SSN and when they have pundits on.