1 hour ago, Brutos said:

3 hours ago, icecoolguy22 said:

Because anytime a team in the top 6 lose to teams in the bottom half  it's a slip up. The fact that Spurs, Arsenal manage to lose 2-3 games in a row means they bottled up, even their fans would admit it. It's not like we are on a winning streak in the last 5 games, we did an average job and other teams bottled up helped us to secure the Cl Spot. Sometime you get a break from other teams, let's not go over board about the season we had.

So we only won league under Conte because the rest messed up

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1 hour ago, Brutos said:

3 hours ago, icecoolguy22 said:

Because anytime a team in the top 6 lose to teams in the bottom half  it's a slip up. The fact that Spurs, Arsenal manage to lose 2-3 games in a row means they bottled up, even their fans would admit it. It's not like we are on a winning streak in the last 5 games, we did an average job and other teams bottled up helped us to secure the Cl Spot. Sometime you get a break from other teams, let's not go over board about the season we had.

So we only won league under Conte because the rest messed up

Behave.

If a team finishes TOP of the pile and wins the PL, then they and their coach will have deserved it. Bit like Leicester under Ranieri - yes the circumstance went for them but they still fully deserved all the plaudits. There is a massive difference between WINNING the PL as opposed to just finishing higher than the other also-rans.

 

No there isn’t, winning the league is just a prize for finishing first. It happens you were better than 19 teams over 38 games instead of 17 teams. You can’t control the quality of the opposition. 

9 minutes ago, cuppaT said:

No there isn’t, winning the league is just a prize for finishing first. It happens you were better than 19 teams over 38 games instead of 17 teams. You can’t control the quality of the opposition. 

That sounds like Wenger philosophy. We finished top 4 - job done.

As I say, whoever wins the PL this season (and I pray it's City), they will deserve it and it's a massive difference to us, Utd, Arsenal and Spurs struggling to achieve a top 4 spot.

 

Will the 5th place PL team now get a CL spot?

P.S. how many Chelsea fans will be watching the final?[emoji6]

1 minute ago, EmeraldBlue said:

Will the 5th place PL team now get a CL spot?

P.S. how many Chelsea fans will be watching the final?

4 minutes ago, EmeraldBlue said:

Will the 5th place PL team now get a CL spot?

P.S. how many Chelsea fans will be watching the final?

After the CL semi-final results it would only take Arsenal to beat us in the final of the Europa to make this officially the worst season ever in the history of football.

38 minutes ago, EmeraldBlue said:

Will the 5th place PL team now get a CL spot?

No.

58 minutes ago, just said:

After the CL semi-final results it would only take Arsenal to beat us in the final of the Europa to make this officially the worst season ever in the history of football.

Both us and Arsenal have Sh*t defenses and average midfields (even more so if Kante is injured) difference is they have quality strikers and we do not. They will out score us with a manager who knows how to win the Europa league if we get there.

10 minutes ago, axman2526 said:

Both us and Arsenal have Sh*t defenses and average midfields (even more so if Kante is injured) difference is they have quality strikers and we do not. They will out score us with a manager who knows how to win the Europa league if we get there.

my exact thoughts

17 minutes ago, luckywerthers said:

my exact thoughts

Our only hope is Valencia get inspired to make a come back and we pull through tomorrow.

^
Come on folks. If we get there we can beat Arsenal.

3 minutes ago, EmeraldBlue said:

^
Come on folks. If we get there we can beat Arsenal.

The defeatist attitude is weird. Despite having the worst season ever and playing the worst football in the history of the sport with a manager doesn't have a clue what he's doing, we still managed to finish above Arsenal in the league.

2 minutes ago, bluedave said:

The defeatist attitude is weird. Despite having the worst season ever and playing the worst football in the history of the sport with a manager doesn't have a clue what he's doing, we still managed to finish above Arsenal in the league.

Oh come on, this time it wasn't defeatist (but only this time  ), it was merely painting the worst possible scenario. Which won't happen, obviously 

2 minutes ago, bluedave said:

The defeatist attitude is weird. Despite having the worst season ever and playing the worst football in the history of the sport with a manager doesn't have a clue what he's doing, we still managed to finish above Arsenal in the league.

And if we beat Leicester, above spurs too.

Also our sh*t defense is the 4th best in the PL. 2 goals behind spurs.

24 minutes ago, Valerie said:

Oh come on, this time it wasn't defeatist (but only this time  ), it was merely painting the worst possible scenario. Which won't happen, obviously 

It is actually happening, we are living it this week, yesterday we reached the tipping point!

5 hours ago, bluedave said:

The defeatist attitude is weird. Despite having the worst season ever and playing the worst football in the history of the sport with a manager doesn't have a clue what he's doing, we still managed to finish above Arsenal in the league.

don't forget the dirty red mancs as well

All things considered, it has been a good season for us. 

Although it stings to lose a cup final, but two, would it be a good season if we lost another final? Logically yes it would but that's not how many others would see it I'm afraid. 

1 hour ago, Slojo said:

All things considered, it has been a good season for us. 

Although it stings to lose a cup final, but two, would it be a good season if we lost another final? Logically yes it would but that's not how many others would see it I'm afraid. 

Top four, one lost cup final and a potential second final in a European cup (if we go through tonight, which I don’t see too easy to do) would be a good season given the change in football style we are attempting and the team we have.

And broken records for being undefeated in the Europa too.

9 hours ago, RMH said:

It is actually happening, we are living it this week, yesterday we reached the tipping point!

The worst case scenario describes - in addition to this week's CL results - Arsenal beating us in the EL final. That will not happen, I forbid it.

7 minutes ago, Valerie said:

The worst case scenario describes - in addition to this week's CL results - Arsenal beating us in the EL final. That will not happen, I forbid it.

the thought of that is enough to put you off wanting to get to the final !!

6 minutes ago, luckywerthers said:

the thought of that is enough to put you off wanting to get to the final !!

That's one way to avoid it, yeah ?

11 hours ago, luckywerthers said:

the thought of that is enough to put you off wanting to get to the final !!

To tell you the truth, it would have been better to get out in semis losing to Eintracht than to lose the final to LeArses (and godforbid the Spuds get the CL!), so we will need to win the damn Cup.

22 hours ago, bluedave said:

The defeatist attitude is weird. Despite having the worst season ever and playing the worst football in the history of the sport with a manager doesn't have a clue what he's doing, we still managed to finish above Arsenal in the league.

I get the point you’re making, but a one off game is completely different to an entire league campaign. Second worse football ever, Wimbledon were worse than us - just