{"id":7051218,"date":"2026-08-29T21:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T21:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/uncategorized\/id-forgotten-how-stressful-this-all-is-east-lower\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T21:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T21:49:09","slug":"id-forgotten-how-stressful-this-all-is-east-lower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7051218","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019d forgotten how stressful this all is \u2013 East Lower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"text\">\n<p><strong><br \/>Nottingham Forest 0-0 Arsenal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>How naive and, frankly, forgetful I am. There I was thinking we might find a way of making this all a bit less stressful than it needs to be. Two goalless draws later\u2026\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not that we\u2019re not well placed \u2013 that\u2019s positively not what I\u2019m saying, despite the double negatives \u2013 but by god this team knows how to put us through the ringer.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve probably lived through about 8 proper title races (not just us farting around on the edges, grunting, which I\u2019ve seen plenty of too) and I honestly don\u2019t know if it\u2019s worse this season or if it\u2019s always been like this.<\/p>\n<p>I certainly think that a) 22 years b) three times a bridesmaid c) who we\u2019re up against have parachuted additional nerves into this one, but I don\u2019t think that d) our inability to really put our feet on the gas and e) our lack of a prolific striker have helped my tender emotional state either.<\/p>\n<p>Surely I was a bag of angst during the invincible season too? I had a look through some of my blog posts of that season and I seem remarkably upbeat throughout. When we got dumped out of the FA Cup that year, I said this:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe cannot play Harlem Globetrotter football every match, and we must be allowed off-days; the players are only human beings. Furthermore, we have three more games this week, and our players are already feeling the physical strain of their achievements.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>How measured is that! There are some truths in there that ring true today. No team can be brilliant week after week (City have taken 3 points from 12, lest we forget), and January\u2019s schedule is ludicrous.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But the Harlem Globetrotters part is interesting too, and may be playing a part in my nerves. We\u2019re a fantastic defensive team, and have options and depth all over the park that we could only have dreamed of in years gone by. We\u2019re seven points clear, for god\u2019s sake. We\u2019re in a great position.<\/p>\n<p>But \u2013 and maybe it\u2019s because the standard in the league is so high, or maybe we just haven\u2019t quite found our magic attacking formula yet \u2013 every point feels like hard work at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe that\u2019s just the way it always was, and always will be, when you\u2019re in a title race.<\/p>\n<p><h3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\"><em>Related<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nottingham Forest 0-0 Arsenal How naive and, frankly, forgetful I am. There I was thinking we might find a way of making this all a bit less stressful than it needs to be. 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