Manchester City Retain Their Premier League Crown After Pipping Liverpool To The Title By One Point

The 3,400 minutes that preceded it must have, at times, been pure purgatory. Yet for 20 minutes, at the end of this match, the fans of Manchester City could relax, enjoy, party even. They were going to do it. They were going to win. They were going to get the 98 points needed to land the title, in this most astonishing of seasons.

Retaining it is never easy. Arsene Wenger could not do it at Arsenal. Don Revie never did it with Leeds. Nor did Bill Shankly at Liverpool.