Stupid question really! It was a massive success, top at Christmas when no one expected us to be anywhere near that. And then the second half of the season after we all thought we would fall away (especially because we didn't strengthen in January ) we won 15 drew 3 and lost 1 the best record of any team in the period.
The damage to our season was done in the first half of the season, if we had not dropped stupid points we would have been able to lose to both city and Chelsea over Christmas and still been top.
gone from 7th mid table nobodies to champions league easily sorted and as brendan said we took the richest club in sport not just football ever to the last game of the season still with a chance of winning it and you say its failure .