Watching that match on Sunday wasn’t just about the most amazing result – Manchester City winning with virtually the last kick of the season, a kick that impacted so visibly to the solar-plexus of the visiting manager at the Stadium of Light as he waited, this time in vain, for the regular sound of inevitability.

Still twenty five minutes to go, but it’s already too much for this City fan to bear

It was also about the way that the City fans still could not bring themselves to believe: right from the news of Rooney’s goal on twenty minutes, through the relative ecstasy of a half-time lead, then the increasing doldrums of two QPR goals totally against the laws of soccer physics.  Until, of course, those last glorious seconds. Continue Reading