Possibly, but it also illustrates the precarious position for pretty much every side in the league other than the established giants (maybe 6 sides). This season they have got only about 30 games combined from Bamford and Phillips. Last year Bamford was responsible for near enough a third of their goals, and Phillips covering in midfield was seemingly the difference between a brave and fucking suicidal game plan. Few sides have the ability to deal with such long standing an important losses, let alone one freshly out of the championship.
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I remember in 89 we were behind in GD heading down the stretch and then in our final midweek game spanked West Ham and all of a sudden took a 4 goal GD advantage into the final game of the season. The recent weeks is a real pisser, but we have a couple of very spankable teams coming up against it whom it wouldnāt be totally unexpected to claw back all of that difference in one game and then City lose the game we need to against Wolves or West Ham and weāre back in business.
Just like that West Ham game in 89 gave us false hope, the awful outcome I am now imagining is that we smash Villa by 5 and Wolves beat City. We both get comfortable if not large wins in our next games (Southampton and West Ham respectively) and we go into the final day ahead with a GD of 2-3 and then Villa return the favour by losing by 6 to City and we lose on GD after huffing and puffing to beat Wolves by 1 or 2.
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The fuck?! WHY would you put something like that into the universe?
If this scenario happens, I will be holding YOU at least indirectly responsible for it, and will be sending @SBYM round with a pair of pliers and a blowtorch.
Fuck sakes!
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Something tells me that @SBYM would probably have other things in mind for pliers and blowtorches than you do.
Then again I could be wrong 
You are.
Forget about the GD bollocks, weād love an '89 type situation where we could play cheaty for the title in round 38.
They finished 9th last season, and they were 16th when he was fired, after a difficult run with arguably their three most important players up on bricks most of the season.
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this aged poorly. theyāre still cunts but theyāre winning the league.
Letās wait until after the final day to see just how poorly this agedā¦
Hope doesnāt cost anything, Hermanoā¦
I know. I was busy all weekend and didnāt get to see the results until yesterday afternoon. this weekend was a hard pill to swallow, poor Robbo had to take that one on the chin for the Son goal he was caught out of position.
then the new oil cunts laid down for the old oil cunts so the oil cunts can have their day with GD. fucking sad state of affairs.
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I feel you. Not in THAT way, but in a more general sense. Itās still an absolutely amazing season, and Iām gonna continue to savour every minute of it. We havenāt lost a tie in 2022 - which is fucking mindblowing in itself.
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absolutely. Iāve never even heard of a club having played in every possible match over the course of a season. four finals. itās amazing.
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Liverpool did it in 2000/2001. Only difference was that we were in the UEFA Cup and not the Championās league.
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Haha your posts have been playing in my mind. But it is now a distinct possibility
Thought this was an interesting read - sets out the scenario that would result in a play off for the PL.
Itās highly unlikely of course. A playoff on 25 May, three days before the CL final would be royal pain in the arse.
Fuck it - City dropping points in two of their remaining three games will do.
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No way. Would hand Madrid far too much of an advantage but you can be sure thats what the PL would go for. I canāt see us making up the goal difference as cheaty have a history of battering teams who roll over for them if they drop points - the only way I see us winning the title is that cheaty meltdown and either drop points twice or follow-up a loss with a narrow 1 goal win giving us an actual realistic target when we play against Southampton. In that scenario weād have to make up 3 goals vs Southampton but weād really want to win by 4 or 5 as you could be sure that brown envelopes to the refs would help them come up with some obscene score vs Villa via a sending off or two.
Yet you forget both Wolves and West Ham are still fighting for European football next season. Neither have any readon or benefit in rolling over
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Lets see - we also have to play wolves too. I hope you are right but Iām going to take Jurgenās advice and ignore cheaty now and focus on Wembley.
True, not much we can do but win our remaining games.
But it shits me when people say the remaining teams Shitty have to play will just roll over for them. 2 of them are still fighting to get a European spot for next season, and the 3rd has Gerrard as manager, and I bet he would love it, absolutely love it if they were to screw city over on the last day of the season to see them lose the league to us
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