I was just looking at the last 10 games as well and we've accumulated more points than anybody else in those games as well.
In other words, our lead has got bigger over that time and it stands to reason that a 10 point gap is going to be harder to close in 8 games than an 8 point lead in 13 games, which is what's happened.
I'd rather believe that it's us making it harder for the teams below us, but the real surprise to me is that we haven't yet seen any sign of a United-style cock up and we're running out of games

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