Usually the over 50 footix club is a strictly urban phenomenon.
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Cant say I’ve ever suggested otherwise pal. Footixing is a state of mind. If 50 year old urban dwellers or under 30 roasters want to footix, live and let live.
Ken early describing it as the greatest title collapse of the premier league era.
Hard to argue albeit the 2014 collapse wouldn’t be far off it and more comical with Jose playing the villain wonderfully.
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Did Jeremy Gloss ever manage a team or add an L to his surname !
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The Woolwich collapse last season was the greatest collapse ever. A collapse for the ages. Woolwich were something like 8 points clear well into March. Dippers have only ever been a point or two at most clear at the top
Arsenal were a bit shit though
Manchester United 1992 is right up there. In the 10 games up to and including the defeat to Liverpool in the penultimate game which clinched the title for Leeds, they took just 10 points out of 30.
In the fifth last game of the season they missed the chance to go an effective seven points clear when they only drew 1-1 at Luton, who would go on to be relegated. But they were still effectively five clear.
Then that advantage evaporated with a home defeat to Nottingham Forest, a defeat by relegated West Ham, before their abject surrender at Anfield.
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Id imagine they never recovered from that kind of collapse. Did they go on to win anything in subsequent years?
They never won the Football League Championship ever again.
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Manchester City 1971/72
Man United 2011-12 was a memorable collapse too. Failing to win the title having been 8 points clear with 6 games to go is fairly unprecedented in the modern era. A defeat at Wigan and a draw at home to Everton in the midst of it.
And a rebrand?
EPL era it has to be Newcastle 96, would have been Blackburn 95 but for Ludo
Did little Shaun Maloney scored a great Wigan goal in that win against Manchester United? Something like the one he scored for Scotland at home to Ireland in the Euro 2016 qualifiers.
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Yeah two very similar goals. He was what you’d call a knacky little player. Roberto Martinez Wigan used to put a great run of form together in April/May every season having barely won a game between November and March.
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Was there a trophy for that?
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That collar 
It’s actually not terrible apart from that, mind.
Word is this is Nike’s last kit as Liverpool are returning to Adidas in summer 2025. The Germany deal must have broken the bank for Nike.
Oh dear