MARTIN SAMUEL - CHIEF SPORTS WRITER: The 3,400 minutes that preceded it must have, at times, been pure purgatory. Yet for 20 minutes, at the end of this match, the fans of Manchester City could relax, enjoy, party even. They were going to do it. They were going to win. They were going to get the 98 points needed to land the title, in this most astonishing of seasons. Retaining it is never easy. Arsene Wenger could not do it at Arsenal. Don Revie never did it with Leeds. Nor did Bill Shankly at Liverpool. Antonio Conte’s Chelsea rewrote the record books, but a repeat was beyond him. And had a soothsayer told Pep Guardiola that 98 points would be the magic number to keep the trophy this season, he would probably have considered that feat beyond him, too. What team can get 198 points across two seasons? The sort of team that can win 14 straight games under quite incredible pressure, perhaps. That is what Manchester City had to do, in the end. After losing at Newcastle on January 29, we now know City would have to win every remaining league game this season to stay out of Liverpool’s reach. Had that been understood as the task on that night, few would have predicted City would be lifting the trophy on May 12. It’s not about the money. There are plenty of clubs that have money. Manchester United had more money than their rivals for over a decade until Roman Abramovich bought Chelsea. They did not rack up 100 points in a season; or 98; or even 97.
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