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Anonymous
Arsenals next game is not meaningless 25 April 2008 | 23 Comments »
BY common consensus we have nothing left to play for this season.
I disagree.
Let us look at the three scenarios that could emerge from Stamford Bridge tomorrow:
a) A United win would guarantee they finish above us and would mean only goal difference madness could deny them the title.
But it would also mean that if we could beat Derby and then Everton at home in our final game at the Emirates, Chelsea would go to Newcastle on Bank Holiday Monday in third place, behind on goal difference and needing a win to regain second.
b) A Chelsea win would really crank up the pressure on United. They would go into their 2nd leg against Barca on a run of one league win in four, knowing one more slip up in their final two games could prove fatal.
It would leave open the possibility of us catching United. They would need to draw one of their remaining Premiership games and lose the other for us to stand any chance.
It would, of course, be a very slim possibility. But when the prize at stake is the league title, any possibility is one worth fighting for.
For us to take the title rather than just pip United for second, we would also require Chelsea to have that slip up at St James and then only draw at home to Bolton on the final day.
c) A draw would take in the Chelsea part of scenario a, because when the gap to be made up is four points (and we would likely have the better goal difference), two draws is the same as two defeats.
So Chelsea would still be there to aim for.
Never give up Gooners!
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