Cup can wrestle back the limelight
Admittedly, we were probably all spoilt by last year’s last-day drama, when Manchester City won it in heart-stoppage time at the Etihad leaving Manchester United players with their jaws on the turf up at the Stadium of Light.
That sensational conclusion is, of course, the main reason the 2011-12 season was voted the greatest in Premier League history, but there were also other days and other games which, over the course of 10 months, helped script a memorable tale of the unexpected — think City hitting United for six or United putting eight past a bewildered Arsenal, for starters.
