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Remembering 'Aguerooo' and Man City's epic comeback to pip Man United to the 2012 Premier League title

It is the moment that defines the Premier League era. A flash of brilliance by Sergio Aguero, three minutes and 20 seconds into stoppage time, on the final day of the 2011-12 season, which delivered Manchester City their first title in 44 years.

Roberto Mancini's City had left it so late against Queens Park Rangers that, 140 miles away at Sunderland, Manchester United's players were still on the pitch at the end of the game at the Stadium of Light believing that they were champions.

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But while Premier League officials began to unpack the boxes of winners' medals in the tunnel at Sunderland following United's 1-0 victory -- with the clubs level on points at the start of the day, the league had a trophy and medals at both games -- City scored twice in the space of two minutes of stoppage time to turn the season on its head and spark scenes of bedlam inside the Etihad.