When Liverpool missed out on the title by a single point last season it was being said with a mixture of amusement and admiration around Anfield that Manchester City had raised the bar so high it was going to take a century of points to be sure of winning the Premier League.
It seemed somehow ludicrous that a side could reach 97 points and still miss out on the league championship, when totals as low as 75 and 78 had sufficed in the past and no previous runner-up had gone beyond 90. Pep Guardiola, finding himself having to defend his record recently as a result of his side stumbling all the way down to fourth in the table, pointed out that his City side had posted 198 points in the previous two seasons, set a Premier League record with 100 points in the first and had gone on to establish a far from shabby average of 99 points per season.
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