Personally I think our CL hopes went out of the window when we lost at home to mighty Fulham. At that point a top 3 place was in our hands, pretty much like last season really.
Once again we are unable to beat the crap sides consistently, so that when we do get a result against teams like Man City all it does is mask over the points we drop against the lesser sides, rather than act as a bonus, and catalyst to better things.
Once again Ars*nal have shown us how to do it.