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Are Manchester City one of greatest teams or one of greatest cheats?
The long wait for an outcome after the club were hit with 115 charges of breaking Premier League rules has left us in a kind of purgatory, unsure if we can fully enjoy and appreciate the achievements of Pep Guardiola’s team
The Times
The romantic view is that it all started with the Sergio Agüero goal. You know, “Agüueeeerrro!” and the 2011-12 Premier League title. Yet really, Agüero doesn’t get his moment if Yaya Touré doesn’t score twice, late, in a really tense 2-0 victory at St James’ Park six days earlier. Everything is connected.
Likewise, Manchester City’s second Premier League title two years later is probably best known as the “Gerrard slips” title race, but City do not chase down their prey with five consecutive wins in the last weeks of that season if Touré does not win the second game of that quintet at Selhurst Park.
He was just back from injury, delivered a gorgeous cross for Edin Dzeko to put City ahead early and then,
