“Bottlers!”
It’s the merciless taunt thrown about by rival followers. But you’ve got gotta be in the Premier League title race to win it, proper?
It’s simply once you lead for thus lengthy and do not win it, there is a lonely void, an ‘it ought to have been us’ vacuum of sorrow.
Staring at the prospect of letting one other seemingly insurmountable lead slip, Arsenal are determined to banish these demons, having grappled with the tag over the previous twenty years.
But they’re removed from alone – the truth is, the Gunners’ slip-ups have been far much less dramatic than these of a few of their rivals.
To assist examine the prime flight’s biggest wobblers, those that have let the league slide from seemingly watertight positions, we enlisted the assist of BBC Sport statistician Chris Collinson, somebody all the time on prime of his tables.
While Chris’ analysis reveals us Arsenal need to function a number of instances, there may be room for Stevie G’s slip, a point out for that ‘Aguerooo!’ second, and, after all, Kevin Keegan’s iconic monologue – which came about 30 years in the past this month.
And I’ll let you know, truthfully, I’ll like it should you learn this, like it!
