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His Newcastle side handed Manchester United the league that season.

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But the truth is, Newcastle's title bid had unravelled long before Keegan's rant.

Twenty-three games in, two ahead of where we are now, Newcastle led Manchester United, third at the time, by 12 points.



Man Utd in 1997/9812-point lead after 22 games playedEventual champions: Arsenal

"He's a novice - he should keep his opinions to Japanese football."

Ferguson's ill-fated criticism of Arsene Wenger in April 1997 would come back to bite him the following season as the Frenchman claimed his first league title as Arsenal boss.

Wenger was fresh to English football at the time having joined midway through the previous season from Japanese side Nagoya Grampus Eight.

He inspired a huge comeback in his first full campaign as Arsenal pipped United to the title despite trailing by 12 points heading into their final 17 matches of the season.

United subsequently lost four of their next nine league games, while Arsenal went unbeaten for 16 league games, winning 10 in a row, to turn the title race.

Ferguson's team were nine points clear of Arsenal following 26 games in 1998, the same number of games Liverpool will have played after Wednesday, albeit United had played two more games than the Gunners.

Man Utd in 2011/12Eight-point lead with six games to goEventual champions: Manchester City

"Aguerooooo!"

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Manchester City won their first Premier League title in such dramatic fashion that the scale of Manchester United's capitulation that season is often forgotten.

United went eight points clear with six games to go after a 2-0 win over QPR at Old Trafford - their eighth in a row - on April 8 as City lost 1-0 at Arsenal

Arsenal in 2022/23Eight-point lead with nine games to be playedEventual champions: Manchester City

Arsenal's unlikely title charge looked on at the start of April 2023, just a year on from missing out on Champions League qualification to their rivals Tottenham.

Mikel Arteta's young side led champions Manchester City by eight points, albeit with a game in hand, with just seven games left of their season.

Arsenal let the title slip through their hands by losing three games, as many as they had up to that point, in that final stretch
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