They did it the hard way, as they always seem to do.
Former player and chairman Franny Lee famously joked Manchester City would be the most successful club in the land if they awarded cups for cock-ups. And, with 21 minutes left and trailing 2-0, it seemed that ignominious trait had come back to haunt City, who only needed to beat Aston Villa to make it four titles in five years.
For all their success over the past decade, the capacity for self-implosion remains in City's DNA - doing things the hard way, putting themselves and their fans through the wringer unnecessarily. It afflicted them away to Real Madrid, when they crumbled with the Champions League final in sight, and here they looked to be suffering the same fate, trailing 2-0 and blowing the Premier League title.
