We used to score goals like that under Arsène.

[WES]

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We didn't get further away because AW became a bad manager, we got further away because our rivals got richer, more numerous and better than us. We won titles when it was either us or United. When Chelsea, Liverpool, Man City, etc came into the mix as serious contenders, it became infinitely more difficult for us to compete. In fact, the only season in recent years when we came even vaguely close was 2015-16, when literally all the usual suspects performed well below their capabilities and let Leicester in.

This is so blindingly obvious that it really shouldn't need saying.

Liverpool didn't come into the mix because of an injection of external money.

They came into the mix - and are now miles ahead of us - because they bought the right players and hired the right manager.

A manager who likely would have been available to us but for those who refused to recognise how poorly Wenger was performing at the time.

The financial doping was always a poor excuse that would eventually be shown to be just that. Leicester and Liverpool have drawn a line under that nonsense quite nicely.

[barrybueno]

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Lester are back up there challenging again.
Time will tell if their championship win was a 'blip'.

Even if they match their incredible 81pts it will only mean a distant 3rd (Still utterly amazing mind) It's quite hilarious to think that pts total won it tbh

They would need some sort of Liverpool/City mid air plane crash to win the league again.