Title Race

[Fosterbloke]

Don't forget some of those teams will be fighting for their Premier League status. There are a fair few twists to go in this march to glory!

[Fosterbloke]

Oh and Ramires and Willian are missing against Arsenal

[Shaggy]

Oh and Ramires and Willian are missing against Arsenal

True but they'll just replace them with some other £25m+ players.

[fah-q]

Will Mourinho have a touchline ban or has that been rescinded?

[RedReet]

Apart from our game Chelsea do have a pretty easy run in though - c*nts

I've highlighted what I think are the potential banana skins for the other clubs....

CHELSEA'S REMAINING FIXTURES
March 22: Arsenal (H)
March 29: Crystal Palace (A)
April 5: Stoke (H)
April 13: Swansea (A)
April 20: Sunderland (H)
April 27: Liverpool (A)
May 3: Norwich (H)
May 11: Cardiff (A)


LIVERPOOL'S REMAINING FIXTURES
March 22: Cardiff (A)
March 26: Sunderland (H)
March 30: Tottenham (H)
April 6: West Ham (A)
April 13: Manchester City (H)
April 20: Norwich (A)
April 27: Chelsea (H)
May 3: Crystal Palace (A)
May 11: Newcastle (H)

ARSENAL'S REMAINING FIXTURES
March 22: Chelsea (A)
March 25: Swansea (H)
March 29: Man City (H)
April 6: Everton (A)
April 15: West Ham (H)
April 19: Hull City (A)
April 28: Newcastle (H)
May 3: West Brom (H)
May 11: Norwich (A)

MAN CITY'S REMAINING FIXTURES
March 22: Fulham (H)
March 25: Man United (A)
March 29: Arsenal (A)
April 5: Southampton (H)
April 13: Liverpool (A)
April 16: Sunderland (H)
April 21: West Brom (H)
April 27: Crystal Palace (A)
May 3: Everton (A)
May 7: Aston Villa (H)
May 11: West Ham (H)

Genuine question, if you factor in form and fixtures, would anybody swap our position with another team and why? I don’t think I would.

If we beat Chelsea, we are ahead of them. I can also see them dropping points elsewhere when faced with a stubborn defence. They may also get distracted by Europe.

City look very shaky of late, have a lot of matches in quick succession and have 4 tough games back to back with us, United, Arsenal and Southampton. Not to mention the goals have dried up for them and I can’t see Aguero getting fit enough to hit top form before the end of the season.

Arsenal I’m not worried about in the slightest.

I honestly would much rather be in our position right now, then either of the other challengers and will be disappointed if we don’t at least keep it going so that we still have a chance when we play Newcastle in May.

[Slinky Skills]

deep down no i don't think we will win it.

I'd say right now we would have to win every game to be 100% - and i think that is a bit unrealistic

i'd say we'd need to bare minimum win 7 draw 2 - and in the 7 wins we simply have to beat Man City, Chelsea and Spurs.

that would represent an unbelievable finish to the season and would give us one hell of a chance at the league. But....even then we would still be hoping that the other teams drop a few points.

we have things going in our favour....we have the squad virtually back to full fitness, we have a real good feel factor, we are bang in form right at the right time and we have the in form footballer in the world - so we are well in with it and i do believe we will fight all the well to the end

[Maxiedge]

It's madness to think that on Dec 25th we were top of the league. Since the New Year, we've had the best record out of the top 4, yet we could potentially be four points from the top

Fair play to all the teams involved. It's been a brilliant season so far. Whoever wins it can say they've won the best title race in the PL history imo (that I can remember)

[Fosterbloke]

Fair play to all the teams involved. It's been a brilliant season so far. Whoever wins it can say they've won the best title race in the PL history imo (that I can remember)

We're always involved in the 'best ofs'. Whether it's CL finals, League runs, FA Cup finals, individual matches or Goal of the Season.

[Maxiedge]

We're always involved in the 'best ofs'. Whether it's CL finals, League runs, FA Cup finals, individual matches or Goal of the Season.

This club is magic. No doubt about it.

[MrMichael]

Would this be better than Istanbul??

No, not as a single moment. Istanbul was the best there ever has been or will be, simply for the hopelessness of it all then the utterly unbelievable, logic defying, divine inspiration-style turnaround. However as an actual footballing achievement, given the consistency you need to win over 38 games, it would arguably be the greater acomplishment.

Lets have that discussion afterwards though eh?

[tsb]

This club is magic. No doubt about it.

It truly is. Whenever we can manage to get our **** sorted that is. Something in the DNA.

[BigChief]

Would this be better than Istanbul??

Yes, without a doubt. As good as Istanbul was it led to a false belief of our future advancement.

Winning the league this season, and the manner of it, tells the world we've arrived and we're not going anywhere.

[Fredo]

It would be better than Istanbul IMO. 24 years of waiting... the longing, the false dawns, nearly attempts and seeing United romp it with titles after titles. It's close though, but personally it would be the greater achievement.

[MrMichael]

You guys are mad. NOTHING will ever quite compare to Istanbul. If we won this league it would be equally amazing and possibly the greater objective achievement, but surely you haven't forgotten quite what that night was like for sheer drama, sheer emotion? "Good" BigChief? Good? Get out of here with your good, it was flipping magnificent. Winning the league this year might well sit alongside it, different but equally glorious, but I can't believe anything could ever make me feel the way I felt that night again.

Edit - **** it, going to watch this now for the 54362th time

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50lZxQRFqY4"]One Night In May - YouTube[/ame]

[Shaggy]

No, not as a single moment. Istanbul was the best there ever has been or will be, simply for the hopelessness of it all then the utterly unbelievable, logic defying, divine inspiration-style turnaround. However as an actual footballing achievement, given the consistency you need to win over 38 games, it would arguably be the greater acomplishment.

Lets have that discussion afterwards though eh?

You guys are mad. NOTHING will ever quite compare to Istanbul. If we won this league it would be equally amazing and possibly the greater objective achievement, but surely you haven't forgotten quite what that night was like for sheer drama, sheer emotion? "Good" BigChief? Good? Get out of here with your good, it was flipping magnificent. Winning the league this year might well sit alongside it, different but equally glorious, but I can't believe anything could ever make me feel the way I felt that night again.

Edit - **** it, going to watch this now for the 54362th time

One Night In May - YouTube

Istanbul was Roy of the Rovers style fantasy football. We've taken it for granted a bit now maybe...the passing of time dilutes the magnitude of that incredible night.