Yeah I agree, I don't think Liverpool really did a 'bottle' job, Liverpool won 12, drew 1 and lost 1 of their final 14 games which is hardly a team stuttering under pressure. They manufactured themselves a chance to win the title out of nowhere and nearly did it. Also they dropped the critical points by playing positively and taking risks, they weren't a team that went in to their shell and played differently when the pressure was on, they played the way they had done all season and sometimes it won't come off.
If there was a bottle job last season it was actually Chelsea. With 9 games to go they were 7 points clear at the top of the table and their run in was Villa (A), Arsenal (H), Palace (A), Stoke (H), Swansea (A), Sunderland (H), Liverpool (A), Norwich (H), Cardiff (A). That really is a sequence of games that a champion team should be able to close out.
But in their run-in, with the title in sight they lost away at Villa and Palace and lost at home to Sunderland, as well as drawing at home to Norwich who went down. All they needed do was pick up a couple of wins in that group and they would have been champions ahead of City.
Can Chelsea recover from this?