Sharethematch.com ambassador Andy Gray was talking exclusively to tribalfootball.com
FORGET the mind games from Roberto Mancini he knows as well as Sir Alex Ferguson that the title race is well and truly back on.
Like many others I always thought Manchester United could slip up at City but after Mancini's men lost at Arsenal and drew with Sunderland allowing United to open up an eight point lead I thought it was all over.
But that's exactly why we love the Premier League because Wigan have gone and turned over the champions throwing the title race wide open again.
It's difficult to say why United came unstuck at Wigan but if some of the United players thought the title was already won, then the manager, in no uncertain terms would have put it right in the dressing room afterwards.
Because he knows, more than anybody, that titles aren't won with eight-point leads at the end of April. If they think that then they're ridiculous.
Neither City or United are going to get anything easily in their next games but you've got to think it will mean something when they clash on April 30 and City could certainly turn the heat up on their neighbours if they get the points at the Etihad.
It looked all gone, it looked all done and dusted last weekend, but by the middle of this week it now looks like it's back in the melting pot. As long as City can emulate United's results up until the Etihad, and they're no more than five points behind, then they go into that game knowing that a win there would mean United only need to draw another game and City are right back in the box seat, because they will probably still have a better goal difference.
They need to emulate all of United's results on the way in, and hope that after they play, and City will win that if they can, then United would need to drop a couple of points.
It's been a very, very fine year in this league. The bottom teams now seem to be getting results that they never showed that they could get five weeks ago. Teams like QPR and Wigan in particular, are getting amazing results, and I don't think anyone expected it, and therefore it's making the league that much more difficult to predict.
I would be very surprised if Fergie throws away an 8 point lead with 7 games to go, but they've gone a long way to doing that by losing at Wigan.
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