creative_username_1MaguireSnowball At Brighton, West Ham, and Southampton we could've and IMO should've, shipped a load of goals and lost heavily
but those sides froze and missed too often. That is, it was less we won those games deservedly
than the opposition blew it. A definite difference IMO
Went away to big old West Ham and spanked them 4-2 on their own turf. Went away to Southampton in a title decider and stuck three past them.
That's not lucky. Why "should" we have "shipped a load of goals"?? If those side were better at football maybe but they weren't. It's not like Southampton missed a string of sitters and indeed at West Ham we were about an inch away from winning 5-2 when Roberts' cutback was judged over the line.
Brighton - we hit the bar with a free header from six yards. Why not say it "should" have been 2-0?
Don't get me wrong, i don't think RFC played spectacular football last season but we were better at football than any other side in the division and fully deserved the title. West Ham lost 7-2 to us over two games, that's a battering. No amount of revisionism is going to convince me that somehow we fluked it.
This. 'Should have' can cunt off*
*copyright Leon 2012
absolutely gents. We won the league - no one else did. Unfortunately the characteristics that did that - team spirit, seeing out wins, clinical finishing and an absolute lack of nerves in facing down all of our rivals seems to have deserted us this season. I still think with some clever moves in the transfer window we could give it a go.