Watched by an estimated 160million viewers in 200 countries, City yesterday pipped their neighbours Manchester United to the Premier League title in the most amazing finish ever.
With five minutes to go in City’s home match against Queens Park Rangers, they had looked down and out.
United had beaten Sunderland 1-0 to go three points ahead of City, who were losing 2-1.
But then City equalised and, with virtually the last kick of the game, their Argentinian striker Sergio Aguero made it 3-2 meaning his team were champions for the first time in 44 years, thanks to their superior goal difference.
There was pandemonium on the pitch, and in pubs and clubs around the country showing the match live. Meanwhile in Sunderland, the tearful expressions of United fans told the story of a triumph snatched from them at the very last.
It was a sporting climax which surpassed Michael Thomas’s last-minute strike for Arsenal in 1989 which won them the League title from Liverpool; Ole Gunnar Solskjær’s Champions League-winning goal for United in 1999; and even Jonny Wilkinson’s Rugby World Cup-winning drop goal in 2003.
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