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Manchester City's nike free run shoes$50 players are champions of England -- yes, that is a phrase we're all going to have to get accustomed to -- because they believed in themselves like those at Manchester United used to.
Like the great teams that Alex Ferguson has produced in his quarter-century at United, City's players refused to accept that hope was lost, that they couldn't make the seemingly impossible possible.
Not only did they take a page out of Ferguson's never-say-die play-book to win the Premier League title on Sunday, they rubbed salt in the wound by trumping one of the Scot's greatest triumphs, too.
"Football, bloody hell," Ferguson famously exclaimed after United conjured two goals out of nowhere in injury time to crush Bayern Munich in the 1999 Champions League final.
It was a moment that, for the people of Manchester, especially in those households that support the Reds, seemed like it could never be topped -- one of football's most spellbinding dramas.
Well, this was even more astounding. Two goals in two minutes that marked the beginning of a new era in Manchester, making this more significant than 1999, too.
As shell-shocked City manager Roberto Mancini said in a phrase that, like Ferguson's 1999 quote, now deserves to be on a T-shirt: "The football is incredible."
The more than $1 billion that the Abu Dhabi owners of City have spent to finance this revolution -- more of a hostile takeover, really -- in the best and most engrossing league in world football was vital, of course.
Putting a stop, perhaps a full stop, to Ferguson's winning ways at United couldn't have been accomplished, at least not by City, any other way.
But, in the 2 minutes and 6 seconds that really counted Sunday, it was the courage and the belief of City's players and not the size of their paychecks that made the difference. Sure, the money helped to lure the likes of midfielder Yaya Toure and striker Sergio Aguero from sunny Barcelona and Madrid and it will help to keep them and others in the less hospitable north of nike free run shoes$50 England. And, yes, perhaps that does make them mercenaries -- like so many others in football these days.
But they confounded the critics who opined that such an overpaid bunch of stars was unlikely to jell into an effective team and that they'd trip over their egos before winning a title.
"It's not us just coming here for money and all these stories that we've heard," said City captain Vincent Kompany. "We've dreamed of this all our lives, when we was kids and we had nothing, no money, nothing."
Although that last part has to be taken with a pinch of salt -- it's hard to believe that Kompany longed to play for what was then poor and sorry City when he was growing up in Belgium -- you get his point. Kompany, especially, played this season and again Sunday as though the blood in his veins has always run pure City blue. And he is not the only one. Continued...