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If only there was some way of taking all these types of actions and putting them into some sort of table over an equal amount of games, maybe home and away to balance it up. Then at the end you see where everybody is based on wins, loses and goal difference.
Same as the Eric stat the other day that said we'd lost to teams above us but beaten teams below us. My God!
The football is dog sh1te, i agree, but its been better than the last 2 season easily.
Eric's post? I took these stats from Saturday's Racing Post. I thought Eric had stopped posting?
You may be content with Bulut's tedious, turgid, toothless brand of football, but not everyone is. Not by a long chalk.
But you carry on beating the drum as loudly as you can. The empty seats all around the CCS are telling their own story.
*Geeky statto warning*
You can play around with the dates here to see the run-in. It was pretty wild, even before that game.
https://www.11v11.com/league-tables/...01-march-1989/
Arsenal were 16 points clear of Liverpool with +15 goal difference over them on 1 Mar, although Liverpool had 3 games in hand. (Norwich, Millwall and Coventry City were 2nd to 4th!).
On 1 Apr, Arsenal were 2 points clear and by Hillsborough, Liverpool were top on goal difference. Arsenal pulled away again as Liverpool didn't play for almost a month, but Liverpool clawed it back by playing 7 games in 21 days (including the replayed semi-final and FA cup final), winning six of them.
Liverpool won 15 of 17 matches from 1st March - the only two they didn't win were a 0-0 with Everton, their first match after Hillsborough, and the 2-0 defeat to Arsenal when 1-0 would have been enough anyway.
As for Arsenal, they won just 6 out of 11 in that period, and went into Anfield collecting just one point from two home games with Derby and Wimbledon.
All things considered, you'd imagine Liverpool as being the mentally stronger in the 89th minute of that match, despite everything they'd been through. The craziest end to a league season there's ever been, surely.
Me too!
A quote from it that's apt considering the thread and discussion is:
“Yes, yes, I know all the jokes. What else could I have expected at Highbury? But I went to Chelsea and to Tottenham and to Rangers, and saw the same thing: that the natural state of a football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score.”
― Nick Hornby, Fever Pitch