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Four months since my last post, when I wailed about how stressful it all was after our 0-0 draw at Forest.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Here I am again, stressed, wailing.<\/p>\n

Two weeks to go. Not to freak you out too much, but here come two of the most consequential weeks in our modern history.\u00a0<\/p>\n

We need to slay some dragons. The 22-year champion gap, the thrice second narrative, the serial European underachiever tag.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Win both and it would be one of the finest seasons ever<\/em>. Up there with Chapman, Mee, Graham, Wenger.<\/p>\n

Win one \u2013 let\u2019s not be greedy here \u2013 and we\u2019d be dancing the light fantastic. Some kind of transcendent state would beckon.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Fall short in both? While we can be rightly proud of how competitive we are at the very highest level, it would be brutal. Gut-punching. So the next two weeks are fork-in-the-road stuff.<\/p>\n

The last few months have felt like years. Obviously, it hasn\u2019t helped that Man City are pushing us all the way, probably to the very final game. It could be the tightest end of the season for us since 1989. In 1998 we won with two games to spare, in 2002 it was three and in 2004 it was two. Breathing room.<\/p>\n

I find it hard to place the 2024 season in all this. It went to the last day, mathematically, but it never really felt like it did, even though we got 89 points. Having lost at home to Villa, the momentum changed. City\u2019s machine clicked into gear and there was a whiff of slipstream about the whole thing.<\/p>\n

Has our machine clicked into gear? It\u2019s the season-long question. Since losing to City on 19 April, it\u2019s four wins and a draw. Some jitters aside, we\u2019ve looked more dynamic, more secure.<\/p>\n

Two wins and it\u2019s ours. Two wins that feel simultaneously achievable and like massive pressure-cooker banana skins. Three wins and \u2013 well, one step at a time.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s all consuming, it\u2019s constant. It\u2019s intense. I might need to go on a meditation retreat. Or take tranquilisers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But steel myself I must. Tonight it\u2019s the Arsecast \/ Arsenal Vision live, which I fully expect to be a collective therapy session. If the mystery guest is not a psychiatrist, I\u2019ll be staggered. There will be Rescue Remedy on each pew.<\/p>\n

Then onto Monday, for the first of the three whoppers.<\/p>\n

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