The agenda for Manchester City on Sunday, the last day of the season, was simple: Defeat fourth-to-last-place Queens Park Rangers to claim the club’s first Premier League crown since 1968.
Easier said than done.
City inexplicably fell behind, 2-1, in the match’s 66th minute. With time marching on and second-place Manchester United watching intently from Sunderland, the score remained unchanged until the closing moments of the contest, when City amazingly, remarkably, miraculously did the unbelievable in stoppage time. Edin Dzeko leveled the score in the second of five added minutes. And then, two minutes later, Sergio Aguero:
And people say soccer is boring.
