Quote Originally Posted by Father Dougal View Post
Yep. We finished 2 points below Brighton. One extra win and we'd have stayed up.

That Chelsea game........

Obviously the whole sala thing also.

Even in 13/14 we ended with 30 points. That's more than any of the bottom 3 this season Will probably get.

But main reflection is I'm not sure if people realise we did better than is often remembered.
We were relegated with a game to go. After we won at Brighton we had 4 games left and we were in 18th. We were 2 points adrift and Brighton (and Southampton a further 3 points above them) had a game in hand.

Some moan about the Chelsea result, but that didn't cost us. In the PL decisions go against you, particularly in favour of the big sides, even with VAR. Nobody mentions the crap performances at Fulham and at home to Palace when it was really needed, and that the Man Utd away game was a dead rubber. We forget that it took our 9th game to register a win. The offside winner against Brighton at home.

There seems to be some that say the Chelsea result cost us our PL place. It's nonsense. We just weren't good enough.