Right first off stick the phrase we go again in the bin, in regards to those defeats suffered under Fergie I was always confident we had the mentality to come back from it and worth remembering the league wasn't half as competitive back then either because teams bricked it against us very often. Oh yeah and finally we were never serious challengers for the league so last night has hopefully made the ones who believed that brought crashing back to earth.
Not a phrase friend, a statement of fact. Perhaps I should have said ‘we are contractually obliged by the governing bodies of the competition we are taking part in to fulfill another fixture on Sunday’. Either way it’s going to happen and I hope to see a much improved performance and a positive result.
Whilst I share your concern about the mental fragility of our current (quite young) squad, the whole point of being whooped by the saints in a weaker league back then is that it shouldn’t have happened on paper, but like Sheffield they raised there game, Le Tiss had a worldie and it did happen but didn’t derail the season.
In this years much more competitive league we’ve drawn with run away favourites City and Liverpool, and honestly felt hard done to not to have won them both. We’ve subsequently beaten Liverpool in the cup. We’re not a million miles away here.
As for the title, I certainly don’t expect it this season, but I have hope, because of our results - and whilst that hope is there it’s more fun to believe we can than say we can’t.