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But it was still just 8 points, not 11. The best comparison is the Reading / West Ham one, but even that seems tenuous to me. That Reading side was better than their league position had suggested (they smashed us early in that season). Which of the two sides 11 points back are likely to do...

Oh and 8 points was enough of a gap anyway, as it turned out.

Not really. Eight points is nowhere near eleven points. Had we been a further 3 points behind last season, the last match would have been meaningless.