Reverend Gooner wrote:I can see that on the individual game basis but not the league table basis. How many weeks have we been top of the league in the last 5 years? We have been well in front and looking like winning in many games but having a big lead in the table and letting is slip is something we have only done once. That is why second is an accomplishment (among other reasons) when we don't spend much time above there and haven't finished there in many years. We do make sure we impress enough to look like a team which can win it before our collapse though, we know how to be in the mix and make people say "Is this Arsenal's year?"
We manage to establish a status quo of winning football leading to strong progression in all competitions and then brush that status quo away at the key moments and win nothing. It is hard to establish that status quo and it stands to reason that if you are capable of building it then you should be capable of bringing something home but we just cannot do it.
Great post Rev.
We haven't won
"back-to-back" titles since the 30's.
I've lived through several Arsenal teams that
"will go on to dominate the decade/era" and it just never happens.
Bertie Mee won the double in '71
Should've won the cup in '72
Should've won the league again in '73 (better team than '71!)
Then nearly got bloody relegated in '76!
George Graham won the league in '89
Well off the pace in '90
Won it far more impressively in '91 (the best Arsenal team i've ever seen)
Off the pace again in '92
Cup team from '93 to '95, finishing 10th place in '93 and 12th in '95
I'm assuming everyone on here is
au fait with the Wenger years?
I understand that everyone
"wants more", that's part and parcel of being a football fan.
But so is understanding that we can never have it all........