by ycsatbjywtbiastkamb » Mon Dec 30, 2024 8:15 am
Terrific win but we've only just reached the halfway stage and the wheels came off us pretty rapidly and pretty dramatically last season when we were also sitting top so we cant let complaceny creep in. The next 2 months or so will probably decide the title imo, Arsenal are going to be without their best player and you just get the feeling that if we can string a few back to back wins together, no dropping silly points like against Newcastle and Fulham, then there's a decent chance they'll crack.
Even for a club like us league title wins are pretty rare, this is not Scotland or Spain where 2 clubs have 50 titles each, in the near 140 year history of the pro game in this country we have only won 19 of them and we are talking about English football's most succesful club here so it just shows you how big a deal winning the title is in this country. Our players arent just winning games they are writing their names and the name of this club into the annals of history.
Football is not just a sport its part of the cultural fabric of this country, who you support is a part of who you are, in this country you are far, far more likely to be asked who you support than who you vote for or wether you are catholic or protestant or gay or straight or whatever, what the lads are doing now has real significance, to the people of this city a title win would be as meaningful and as culturally significant as the Beatles releasing an album or Shakespeare penning a sonnet, our lads need to understand that they must keep their foot on the gas, winning games like this one is incredibly important, as the great northern writer JB Priestly wrote donkeys ago if football is just 22 men kicking a bag of wind around a field then a stradivarius is just a bit of catgut and wood and the mona lisa a bit of canvas and paint. Just keep effin winning.