We were 2 points behind on an upswing with everyone expecting Leicester to fall apart and us playing ManUtd’s youth team next. We still managed to lose to ManUtd and a crap Swansea team at home to put an end to our chances.
That season was insanely promising around Christmas but we bottled it hard from mid January to the beginning of March. In the end it was hardly a season I’d remember as us challenging to the end.
Depressing times for us Gooners as that was the season around 80 points was good enough to be Champions, now it’s reverted back to around the 90 point mark which will be the norm, also impossible for us to achieve.
Lets not forget the boxing day surrender after beating city either. I was never convinced because we beat Leciester that the title was a given the way some did.
I think that was 13/14. They still show the stat that we’re the only side in the past 10 years or so to be at the top of the table ast Christmas and not win the league.
Don’t feel like Arsenal really bottled it in the 13-14 season. Yes, they were on top until early-february or so, but they still needed to play Liverpool, United, Stoke (away), Spurs, Chelsea, City at that point. Arsenal regressed to their mean at the end really.
We drew with stoke, drew with spurs, lost to liverpool, Chelsea and united oh and Swansea; I think that’s the period we did not win a game a got three points from jan to March.
We got thrashed by City in Dec and got beat 3-0 by Everton away later in the season. We really did collapse against every top team that season bar Spurs and Liverpool. We couldn’t beat Moyes United either.
Man United +27, Chelsea +25, Liverpool +24, Spurs +19, whilst we are only +12… shows they are winning games a lot more easily than we are which says a bit about the respective sides. A 6th place finish is looking a near certainty for us.