Beat Aston Villa on Sunday and Pep Guardiola will secure his 10th championship from the 13 seasons he has been a manager with Barcelona, Bayern Munich and now Manchester City.
In two of the other campaigns he has been runner-up. The outlier was his first season at the Etihad in 2016/17 when he finished third.
Rarely prone to self-congratulation, one senses Guardiola is proud of finding himself on the verge of a fourth Premier League title in five seasons, the most dominant run in our game since Sir Alex Ferguson and Manchester United more than a decade ago.