Pep Guardiola knew it, and now everyone else does too. Manchester City are in a title race.
It may have looked as we were heading for a procession at one stage, but with a side like Liverpool challenging them, it was never likely to be as easy as many had predicted.
And so it proved on Saturday evening as, in the most dramatic of circumstances, City’s defeat to Tottenham left the door open to their closest, and only, rivals.