That’s how it has been portrayed across social media but I’m having none of it… | OneFootball

Irony of all ironies, it was Manchester United who helped us over the line to secure Champions League football for the second time in three seasons.

That’s how it has been portrayed across social media but I’m having none of it.

Our fifth place wasn’t just earned because of Man U getting off their backsides and beating ten man Aston Villa.

Lets face it, nor was it about Newcastle United drawing a blank for the second time this season against a bang average Everton side, who admittedly, David Moyes had refused to issue the flip flops and beach towels to after the curtain came down on Goodison Park last weekend.

No, you earn your place in the table over 38 matches.

So how about putting our top five position into what we accomplished and not about events at Old Trafford yesterday?

If it was just about a solitary point, I’m more thinking Schar’s last gasp equaliser at home to Liverpool or Alex Isak’s ice cold penalty in the 89th minute to earn a point at the Amex.

Or if it’s about our superior goal difference, then what about the plus 11 we obtained during that ten day spell in early April when we beat Leicester and Man U by three goal margins before hammering Crystal Palace 5-0?

Or that splendid run over the Christmas period when we humped Leicester and Ipswich 4-0, before putting three past Villa on Boxing Day without reply.

Winning matches accumulates points and we’ve done the double over seven clubs – Forest, Man Utd, Spurs, Wolves, Ipswich, Leicester and Southampton.

Make that eight if you’re counting the League Cup semi-final.

What a season it’s been.

A trophy. Our first domestic silverware in 70 years. Won the hard way. Who’ll forget that we dispatched three of the four sides that finished above us in the league to get our hands on that prize?