Ade's folks are ok really
Ramon Vega
Were they not title chasing seasons? Why the ahem and air quotes?
It was more a sarcastic nod to Sky and the rest of the media narrative. The seasons that Leicester and Chelsea won the titles, they pretty much ran away with it. There was never really a challenger or a swapping of 1st/2nd places IIRC. But Sky needed a narrative to make it feel like there was a title race, so we fell into that on the basis of next best thing in second.
We didn't go into either of those seasons expecting to win the title, yet we got labelled as bottlers or failures for not winning it!! Still not sure how you can fail a title you were never really in for in first place.