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When are they kicking off?”
In the end, Leicester, who only lost three league games all season, were handed the title when Tottenham Hotspur blew a two-goal lead to draw 2-2 at Chelsea.
There will be a twist along the way, it’s not just going to be straight up for any team, so they have to find a positive.”
When Arsenal thought they had blown it in back in the 1988-89 season after losing to Derby County and drawing with Wimbledon, some players tried to avoid updates on Liverpool’s 5-1 hammering of West Ham United.
“The waiter came and told me at the end, ‘You’ve got to beat us 2-0 now… it’s not going to happen, is it?’,” he says in 89, Amy Lawrence’s book about that season.
“And I went, ‘No’.”
Michael Thomas famously had other ideas when it was ‘up for grabs’ in the final minute at Anfield.
Defining head-to-head games on the final day of the season are rare, but clashes between title contenders earlier in the season provide a huge opportunity to deal a mental blow.
“The closer you get to ‘D-Day’ in a title race, as Shearer says, the volume of that critical voice inside your head with unhelpful, negative emotions will turn up,” says Abrahams, a leading sports psychologist who has worked with elite players.
We loved it.”
This season, Arsenal’s winter break to Dubai led to 10 wins from league 11 games after just one win in five.
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