Caporegime
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I'm sorry but that's total rubbish. Liverpool finished on 86 points that season, and played some excellent football in doing so. In fact, in many other seasons that points total would have been enough to win them the title, it's just that an exceptional United side earned 90 points.
You realise nothing you said in any way contradicts what I said?
Teams being worse, doesn't somehow magically make points dissappear. Its not like everyone said, Chelsea suck balls this year, lets make it 2 points per win. 86 points doesn't mean ANYTHING at all, they didn't get 86 points any other year, and they couldn't the year before or after, that year they got 86 points because the vast majority of the league got worse and Liverpool held on an extra year before getting completely crap themselves.
Liverpool weren't fantastic, and had a truly epic number of exceptionally lucky games, aswell as the entire league being worse than the previous season meant LIverpool got more points than normal, they without question did not play massively better than year. I can still remember the most ridiculous Boro game that year, where they outplayed Pook for 89 mins of the game, 2-3 ridiculous defensive mistakes let Torres nip in and was it 3-2 from memory, though Boro deserved to win it 5-0 they played so well and were it not for defensive mistakes Pool created nothing themselves.
Season after they too got worse, way way worse, like almost everyone else in the league.
That Liverpool side in say the invincibles year(with the Utd/Chelsea from that year) wouldn't have gotten close to 2nd place.