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Hope it is clear that I love England and fancy living there some day...
That hopefully shielding me a bit ... from my outside perspective, there is a tendency surrounding the EPL (and the sport of soccer generally) to weigh losses much more heavily than victories...
Score two, give up two, end up 2-2 seems very nerve-wracking in London ;- ) whereas a "soundly played" 0-0 tie allows the fan to derive satisfaction...
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As you put it Michael, ideally we would be free of such psychological restrictions and able to fit our philosophies to our players at the time...
In my humble opinion, EPL fans do NOT accomplish this to any great degree... hence the scatching reviews Arsenal receive for playing unsound football...