16 Conclusions on another quiet and uneventful Premier League final day

Final-day Barclays is routinely the very best Barclays and that was a vintage slice. City produced a title-winning conclusion mad enough to be the second maddest final day they’ve had, while Leeds leapfrogged Burnley to avoid the drop and, most astonishingly of all, Spurs never even threatened to Spurs things up for a single second as they cruised back into the Champions League…

1. “I swear you’ll never see anything like this ever again.” So, is Martin Tyler a great big massive liar or what? I guess technically he’s in the clear because, absurd as Manchester City’s latest wildly improbable final-day title-clinching comeback victory was, and as hard as this fact is to process given the scale of the drama, at no point were City ever anything other than top of the table. City’s astonishing, season-defining six minutes in which they turned a 2-0 deficit into a 3-2 victory over a shellshocked Aston Villa occurred while Liverpool were themselves still shambling around against Wolves and, frankly, being pretty damn lucky not to fall behind to any one of a series of counter-attacks blown by the visitors before their own late goals to secure a win and a Golden Boot share for Mo Salah but no Premier League cigar.

City and Liverpool both seemed to succumb to nerves, with both producing quite honking performances at odds with their season’s work as a whole in which both once again went beyond the 90-point barrier. Says quite a lot that both still won, really. Liverpool fell behind in the third minute as a Virgil van Dijkless defence went AWOL, while City were having one of those games where their casual, easy dominance of proceedings fails to translate to chances and goals. It’s the only way they ever seem to drop points and does