It is surely over bar the shouting. There was plenty of that, in increasingly desperate measure from the Arsenal support but, with their team falling short, it feels safe to say that Manchester City are about to be crowned as the Premier League champions for the fifth time in six seasons.
Arsenal have given it a heck of a roll and it seems like a trick of the mind that many people did not think they would finish in the top four before the start of the campaign.
But needing victory to keep alive their title hopes after City had won at Everton earlier in the day, they were brought to their knees by Roberto De Zerbi’s Brighton, who gave a second-half masterclass and can scent European qualification for the first time in club history.
Julio Enciso, Brighton’s latest star in the making, scored the first on 51 minutes and when the substitute, Deniz Undav, lobbed home the second towards the end, it was the prompt for De Zerbi to tear along the line in celebration and thousands of Arsenal fans to head for the exits.