We’ve not won it yet.
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I did say if. Very humble and nervous here.
That squad had 5-6 of the best players in the world in their position, or all-time greatest: VVD, Alisson, Trent, Robertson, Fabinho, Mane, and Salah. The remaining players were also world-class in many eyes. I don’t care about the number of trophies; it’s surely one of the greatest teams ever.
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Getting money’s worth from Mo. Taking advantage of Trent before he leaves for free. Squeezing the last bit from Andy before he goes to the glue factory. Grav 100% has been overplayed.
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Grav’s only played 4 more games than Salah though technically and Salah went to the AFCON and then got injured for 2 months.
It’s pointless comparing his minutes last season as he wasn’t the player he has been for the most part this season.
Some of these are injury related, Only Trent and Konate have been out for similar periods this season.
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It never used to… but anything Dutch now seems to catch my eye, so I guess I have AS to thank for that… Anyway, this has to be one of the top three versions of this song, I have ever heard.
Not only is it a great rendition… the guy is actually sat upon a stool the whole way through… which to me, makes it harder to sing..!
Well worth a listen…
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Th guy is an Opera singer.
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Some training ideas to ‘avoid injury’ (from the 1920s). Samuele Allardyici would have been a visionary:
Tottenham and Wolves coach Elijah Morse put it: “There cannot be the slightest shadow of doubt that the trainer who gives his men too much ball practice during the week is heading for staleness at breakneck pace. As sure as fate, if fellows are given too much ball practice there comes a day when they lose their keenness. I have sometimes felt I would like to hide the ball away right through the week, because I knew full well that the fellows would be keen as mustard after it on the Saturday afternoon.”
"When I was a member of the Aston Villa team and Joe Grierson was the trainer, we had little or no ball practice,” wrote Joe Bache, the former Villa and England striker who went on to coach in England and Germany. “After the first three practice games the ball was put away for the season. He hated the idea of members of the first team playing about with the ball, and thought it added to the possibility of injury.”
From The forgotten story of … Arsenal’s wooden training shed | Football | The Guardian
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I’m hoping (& assuming) the shots faced stat there is sorted from lowest to highest 
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Can’t we still get 97pts which I think would still be the fourth highest points total of a title winner?
And two of the three are cheats. We are there because frankly at this moment because we deserve to be there we played well in the first half of the season and we have played well at times until Feb. We struggled in Feb but it was a brutal period which we were still able to get the league results.
Meanwhile our nearest challenges have all fallen off at times. End of the day there were teams within 6 points of us in December. We were able to consistently get the results which left just us and Arsenal and in our tough month they dropped more points.
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Our current points average puts us on track for 92. Which pre-Cheaty would be the second-highest points total ever I think.
EDIT: That depends on whether you count 2016-17 as pre-Cheaty, since Conte won with 93 points. Regardless, 92 puts us as joint 8th for all-time highest point totals.
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Is this just the PL era or since the real begining of modern football, adjusted for 3pts per win?
I’m not going to dig that far. As far as I’m aware, I think it’s for non-adjusted points totals.
EDIT: Also, I’m not sure how valid adjusting for 3 points per win is if you don’t also adjust for 38 games vs 42, but there’s no really valid way to do so.
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Ok, until someone dig that deep, this will do.
We’re all waiting you lazy sod…
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Headline could have stopped after the third word tbh
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