Manchester City have been crowned Premier League champions for an unprecedented fourth time in a row. They go into the record books after beating West Ham 3-1 at the Etihad stadium. It is a remarkable feat: never in 135 years of English league football has a club won four consecutive top-flight titles.
City can arguably lay claim to be the greatest team in the league’s history. They have an FA Cup final to look forward to next weekend, a game in which they are hot favourites to sweep aside a dysfunctional and underperforming Manchester United. That would be a cup and league double on the heels of the remarkable Treble last year that also included their Champions League win. Even the greatest teams can drop off a level the season after reaching the greatest heights – not City though, there was no hangover this season.
It is awesome, unprecedented and – whisper it – just a trifle stupefying
The club let the captain Ilkay Gundogan depart for Barcelona last summer, alongside Riyad Mahrez who went to the Saudi Pro League.
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