The Barclays Premier League is over for another season. And all the money spend by Manchester City paid off in a dramatic end to the season; the League's website reports:
Manchester City were crowned champions of the Barclays Premier League after an afternoon of astonishing drama at the Etihad Stadium.
Roberto Mancini's side seemed to be destined for second place for much of the afternoon as Queens Park Rangers produced a display of resilience to thwart their opponents.The situation was desperate as the match at the Etihad Stadium moved into injury time.QPR, down to 10 men for the final 35 minutes of the match after Joey Barton's red card, were winning 2-1 and set to become the first side this season to beat City on their own patch.More significantly, Manchester United were winning 1-0 at Sunderland thanks to Wayne Rooney's header - which meant City had to secure victory to win their first title in 44 years.With 75 seconds of the five minutes of injury time elapsed Edin Dzeko fired in to level the match and set the tone for an astonishing finale.And with less than two minutes remaining, Sergio Aguero fired past Paddy Kenny from close range to spark massive celebrations in the stadium.
To all our Manchester United fans we say this; now you know how it feels! Sir Alex Fergusson's men choked at the business end of the season, and The Scum's trophy cabinet will be bare for 2011-12. Football is indeed a cruel mistress.
But the good news doesn't end there. Arsenal beat West Bromwich Albion 3-2 away to secure third place; a fantastic effort after a dreadful start to the season. Third place is enough for the final automatic qualifying place in the lucrative European Champions' League, but sadly, North London rivals Tottenham Hotspur (fourth by just one point) will have to go through qualifying.
7 comments:
I dunno about "choked", that's the charge that would have been levelled at City had they not won against the R's, who I'm very pleased to see stay up at Bolton's expense.
If you don't beat your rivals head to head, you don't deserve the title, and United lost both league meetings this year.
Also worth a mention that it's the first time in a long time (10 years?) that all three promoted teams have stayed up.
So pleased to see the Huns downed.
Eight points ahead with six games to go isn't a choke? Losing to Wigan isn't a choke?
But today is Man City's day; all power to them.
Well done Man City.
(said with gritted teeth as I can't stand either Manchester team).
Nice to see Chelsea miss out on CL qualification this year. I hope spurs can do the job next year.
And tonight I think my beloved West Ham play Blackpool for promotion to the Premier league.
Go the Hammers.
Chequebook Chelsea hasn't missed out yet QH. If they win in Munich next weekend, they will qualify as the fourth English team, which will be bad news for Spurs. The qualification rule changed in 2005 after Liverpool won the Champions League, but only came 5th in the Premiership, missing out on automatic CL entry.
"Eight points ahead with six games to go isn't a choke? Losing to Wigan isn't a choke?"
Considering one of those games was a "6-pointer" head-to-head? Losing to Wigan who beat Liverpool, Arsenal and put four past Newcastle? They're not easy-beats.
City won both the derbies and deserved the title, recovering from a form-slump themselves. Labelling United "chokers" takes away from that IMO.
we Man Utd fans are nice people and I will say on behalf of all of us .. well done Man Shitty.
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