City went into the season’s last game leading for the sixth time in seven seasons, needing only a win over West Ham United to reclaim the title – and they delivered.
Pep Guardiola’s all-conquering team once again demonstrated why they are the Premier League’s greatest untouchables.
They look impervious to regular pressures, and the fact that they have rewritten the record books will elicit little discussion or in-depth examination. It was expected. The seismic shock would have been a failure to achieve their goal.
It’s a stretch to suggest Manchester City has grown so synonymous with success that these remarkable accomplishments are dismissed, but the fact that they’ve won 19 and drawn four of their last 23 league games since losing to Aston Villa in December has astonished few.
