Whatever you think of Manchester City, one thing is certain: it would be absolutely sodding hilarious if the one thing between them and the Quadruple was Nathan Jones:
A philosophical question for you: if a Quadruple bid ends before anyone even actually realises it’s started, does it make a sound? Clearly, nobody was talking about a Quadruple – or even a Treble for that matter – when Manchester United travelled to White Hart Lane in December 1998 for a League Cup quarter-final against Spurs.
But given everything that happened across the rest of that season, and while acknowledging that the Butterfly Effect applies to quickfire Chris Armstrong doubles after half-time every bit as much as it does to the flapping wings of world-destroying insects, you could make a decent case that this is actually the closest anyone has ever come and they didn’t even know it.
Sure, maybe the distraction of a two-legged semi-final against Wimbledon and a final against Leicester might have derailed United’s loftier ambitions but also, probably not. And given that even a phenomenally mediocre Spurs team managed to negotiate those games and actually win themselves a trophy you’d have to imagine an all-conquering United would also have done so; they didn’t lose a single game from December 19 onwards in that fabled campaign.
Essentially it boils down to this: all else being equal, United only needed to see off teams who finished the season 11th, 16th and 10th to add a final coat of shiny gloss to their greatest ever season. But
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