WeePat
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I beg to differ. For me, you really-really bottle it when you're handed an advantage by your opponent, but you don't have what it takes to get over the line.
Bayern Munich had been offering the title to BvB on a plate for several weeks, and Dortmund were like: "Nah, you can have the bowl. We don't care much about silverware here".
The Heat needed a three-points masterclass to beat a sorry Bulls team just to make it to the playoffs. That was their starting point. Similarly, if Arsenal had lost the title to an 80-points City team, i'd call it a proper bottle job.
You can be Accrington Stanley who Cinderella Story’d their way to the FA Cup final and against all fathomable odds they find themselves somehow 4-0 up in the second half against City but end up losing 5-4, they literally bottled it. Heat’s advantage was that they were 3-0 up in the series and had 4 attempts to win one more game. If they lose game 7 they will have bottled it massively.