Hasn't been a Vintage United season by any means but we could still finish on 92 points and that would be an incredible achievement considering.
I'd go along with that. In terms of the football we've played, it wouldn't be in the top 5 of the titles that Fergie's won. But in another way, we didn't have Ronaldo for the first six weeks, we lost Rooney to injury, there was the issue of trying to fit Berbatov into our system, we lost our first choice defence for a month, and there were the fixture backlog. It was a title won on grit.
By my count, since we drew with Tottenham in mid-December, we've played 20 Premiership games for 18 wins and 2 losses. There's an article in the Guardian about how (ironically like 90s Liverpool) we built our title on crushing the weak teams whilst not necessarily performing against the stronger sides.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2009/may/13/manchester-united-premier-league-champions
A Bit High said:
Lets get the job done with a win at OT against the Gunners and move to title 18.....
To give you an idea of what this means, consider this. When I started following United, we had 7 titles to Liverpool's 14. By the time the Premier League started, we still had 7, but Liverpool had 18. I would have been happy to see United win just 1 title. If you said to me then that United would get to 18 titles, level with Liverpool, I wouldn't have believed you.
IT's weird to think that just 4 seasons ago, it looked like Fergie was finished. Mourinho and Chelsea's money looked like dominating, and Benitez had just won the Champions League for Liverpool. Fergie pretty much has #18 in the bag for us, Mourinho is gone, and Liverpool have now gone three seasons of winning **** all.
Breathe it in guys. Enjoy it. There's a banner on the Kop, "Forever In Our Shadow". In 12 months time, those bastards will be in Manchester United's shadow.