Leicester attain not need to prove themselves any more – they already have,and a slimline fixture list could abet Claudio Ranieri’s side land the biggest prizeManchester United set in a decent performance for once at home against Stoke City, and in the press room after the match the in-house television channel was naturally full of it. We are back to our best, or was the slightly premature MUTV message,while up in Sunderland the noisy neighbours had only managed to “scrape a win” by a single goal.
Everyone laughed at that, believing it was routine pro-United, or anti-City bias,yet blow me when we all got home and watched Match of the Day on catch-up it was obvious Manchester City had only scraped a win. But for some Joe Hart heroics in goal Sunderland would have had at least a share of the points, and as Sam Allardyce said afterwards with any sort of finishing the relegation strugglers might have taken a giant stride upwards.
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Source: theguardian.com