And so it finished Manchester City 2-3 The Narrative.
Harry Kane’s matchwinning masterclass at the Etihad Stadium served up a delicious story arc, or a sicking gut-punch of "let’s have a look at what you could have won" — depending on your perspective.
Then there was the post-match revelry on Sky Sports, with Kane interviewed via the medium of innuendo, talk of “what went on last summer" as if he was the victim of a natural disaster rather than a man who tried and shambolically failed to engineer an exit from his football club.
