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ExThaNemesis posted...

We were never 8 points clear.

ExThaNemesis posted...

while we were ahead 8

ok

By the time they played their game in hand, they drew it having already won the league to move 8 points clear. Or 8 points "ahead" as there's apparently a major difference. Their game in hand had nothing to do with you bottling, it could have outright not have been played and they still beat you by 4 points. It was completely inconsequential to the title race because you had already fucked it by then.

ExThaNemesis posted...

Injuries aren't an excuse, but they're a reason for sure.

Agreed, injures are reasons. Other reasons are capitulation during the most important period of a season. There's a good term for that.

ExThaNemesis posted...

Certainly throwing away the leads we did wasn't good, but I'm more than okay with what we did last year considering the injuries, the youngest team in the league, and a manager in his first ever job competing against the greatest manager of all time with the greatest club side money could ever buy.

No one's saying you can't be ok with it. Just getting into the situation to actually bottle the league was impressive, no one expected you to be that good. The season before that I saw the team you rolled out first game against Brentford and laughed, thinking you'd never even make top4 again any time soon. You proved a lot of people wrong, enjoyed a good season that set the scene for a promising future, and were outright better than the best team in the league for 75% of the season. But you still bottled it.

ExThaNemesis posted...

The term 'bottlers' is so lazy and harsh. It's absolute anti-thinking and you should demand better from yourself.

It's an overused term coz pretty much everyone whose ever lost now gets called it, but saying you bottled it here is completely valid. Getting upset at the term doesn't change that. It's existed for decades before footballing twitter/reddit decided to grind the term into the ground.